Why can't films and TV accurately portray hackers?
Because we&#x27;re here in hacker news, we&#x27;re biased to think that&#x27;s the only thing screenwriters get wrong. The truth is, nearly every single profession is misrepresented by Hollywood. From doctors, to chemists, biologists, physicists, mathematicitians, psychologists, policemen, detectives, nearly every single profession looks absurd from the perspective of people who actually understand it when it&#x27;s staged in a movie.<p>There&#x27;s a reason why films about directors and movie making seem more realistic than the rest - they are the only movies designed by people who actually understand the subject.