Why wouldn't it work? Establish that firmly in the first few minutes, as well as via the advance publicity, and it's a marketing hook. As well as establishing the director as someone whose actually thought about what they're doing. IMO, at least.
Fact is, retro scifi is making a comeback by way of steampunk, and increasingly films are setting stories in a pre-Google era because everyday omniscience sucks the drama from a story.
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Date: 2008-09-30 01:06 am (UTC)Fact is, retro scifi is making a comeback by way of steampunk, and increasingly films are setting stories in a pre-Google era because everyday omniscience sucks the drama from a story.