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The title text continues the joke, with innocuous comments by Hawking interpreted as important revelations. | The title text continues the joke, with innocuous comments by Hawking interpreted as important revelations. | ||
β | + | {{w|The Town (2010 film)|The Town}} is a movie which was released 10 days before this comic's release. Hawking tries to suggest they go see The Town which should be good, as he may know since it both {{w|The_Town_(2010_film)#Reception|received positive reviews}} and {{w|The_Town_(2010_film)#Box_office|was a box office hit}}. But instead the newspapers again sensationalize his statements and declare The Town to be the best in the universe. | |
When Hawking then tries to state that this was just something he had heard, the newspaper asks if science should play a role in judging {{w|Ben Affleck}}. Ben Affleck directed, wrote and starred (top billing) in this movie, so any judgment of this film would reflect on Affleck. The media asks if science should have an opinion on art, in this case Ben Affleck, and thus judge it. It could be argued that it should not as art is not necessarily based on anything scientific, but to thus state that a scientist must now have an opinion on art is a completely different story. Hawking is here defined as Science. If he says so then it is the opinion of the Scientific community and not just his personal opinion. | When Hawking then tries to state that this was just something he had heard, the newspaper asks if science should play a role in judging {{w|Ben Affleck}}. Ben Affleck directed, wrote and starred (top billing) in this movie, so any judgment of this film would reflect on Affleck. The media asks if science should have an opinion on art, in this case Ben Affleck, and thus judge it. It could be argued that it should not as art is not necessarily based on anything scientific, but to thus state that a scientist must now have an opinion on art is a completely different story. Hawking is here defined as Science. If he says so then it is the opinion of the Scientific community and not just his personal opinion. | ||
β | Before Hawking even gets close to finishing his next sentence, the media asks what about {{w|Matt Damon}} -- should he judge him as well. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have a long history together and came to prominence together as screenwriters of | + | Before Hawking even gets close to finishing his next sentence, the media asks what about {{w|Matt Damon}} -- should he judge him as well. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have a long history together and came to prominence together as screenwriters of {{w|Good Will Hunting}}, winning an Oscar for the script. They also co-starred in the movie, with Matt Damon in a main role opposite {{w|Robin Williams}}. Following that, Matt Damon's acting career has been more commercially successful than Affleck's, causing speculation that their friendship could be in trouble over such details. But they have kept working together and are co-owners of the production company {{w|Pearl Street Films}}, so this is probably not the case. |
β | But still more than ten years after their shared Oscar moment for best script for | + | But still more than ten years after their shared Oscar moment for best script for Good Will Hunting, many people think of Damon when they hear of Affleck and the other way around. This is the reason for the last question by the press. |
Those of you feeling bad for Steven Hawking might feel good to know that he had a healthy social life in reality, and had even dabbled in [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370071/ a brief acting career (typically as cameo appearances)]. | Those of you feeling bad for Steven Hawking might feel good to know that he had a healthy social life in reality, and had even dabbled in [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370071/ a brief acting career (typically as cameo appearances)]. |