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wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org 11 hours agoWhat you’re saying is sound and I agree the plot not being real is fiction; the only problem is you said fiction required unrealistic elements and most people see “unrealistic” as basically fantasy
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
See, I hear ‘fantasy’ and think of orks and fairies and shit, but I can think of many non-fantasy movies that have incredibly unrealistic aspects.
Like, idk, James Bond’s gizmos are completely unrealistic and break the laws of physics, but it’s not fantasy to me.
wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org 10 hours ago
I’d argue James bond as a franchise is basically a hypermasculine fantasy and the gadgets are pretty much a tech fantasy within it. Breaking laws of physics is completely unrealistic, but the point I was making was that you don’t need to do any of these things- you could write a story about how you went to the gym and broke a treadmill (even though you didn’t) and it would be fiction. The bar to fiction is not that high.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 10 hours ago
Yes, it’s not a high bar at all. It just requires slight divergence with reality. Some degree of unreality, if you will.