Star Wars, Napoleon, and "Reality" in the Movies

Star Wars, perhaps the most successful science-fiction film ever made, breaks dozens of laws of physics but has been enjoyed by millions. Its more recent prequels break no more and are, to those of us who grew up with the originals, heartbreakingly worse.

Actor David Mitchell reflects on "reality" in the movies.

Movie crews don't much care... until they're filming a scene about filming a scene:

They'll show brain operations done with melon ballers, Napoleon wearing the full dress uniform of a Brazilian police inspector with a chestful of Luftwaffe medals, and Judge John Deed before they'll allow the fictional on-camera cameraman not to call "Mark it" at the appropriate time.