About Neurratives - A Podcast about Neuroscience in Fiction
Filmmakers and writers don't always understand neuroscience - but we do! Kind of, anyways. Each episode, neurotech industry veterans Stephen Hou and Nick Halper discuss a work of fiction that involves neuroscience in some way. Nick and Stephen will dig into the plot, unpack the science/technology, and if necessary, mercilessly roast the filmmakers for scientific or cinematic missteps.
Episode 28 - The Music Never Stopped | Bad babies get rabies
Our hosts Nick and Stephen complete the trilogy of movies based on writings of Dr Oliver Sacks, with 2011's The Music Never Stopped. In this film, The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, and The Beatles truly are the best medicine, as a severely brain-damaged patient and his estranged father bond over a shared love of music. How well does this movie depict memory and neurological damage? How does it stack up to our previous two Oliver Sacks movies? What on earth does our episode title mean? All this and more in this episode!
1 Jun 2023
Episode 27 - The Man With Two Brains |
"Boy, we're going to struggle for stuff to say," said an idiot, ten minutes into what ended up being a 92-minute podcast episode. Nick and Stephen jump back into the world of neurosurgery and kick off our Brain in a Vat miniseries, with The Man with Two Brains. In this 1983 comedy, Steve Martin plays a brilliant neurosurgeon who falls for a preserved brain, Anne, amidst his tumultuous marriage with the scheming Dolores, played by none other than the voice of Jessica Rabbit.
Chaos ensues when Michael seeks a new body for Anne while dodging Dolores's plots and crossing paths with a notorious serial killer. Join us as we dissect this comedic rollercoaster where love, science, and a dash of the macabre intertwine.
3 May 2023
Episode 26 - Lucy | The 10% myth, Part One
Well we had to get to it at some point. In this episode of Neurratives, Nick and Stephen tackle the first of a yet-unspecified number of episodes that will tackle movies dealing with the myth that humans only use 10% of their brains. We'll be taking a look at 2014's Lucy, directed by Luc Besson, best known for Taken, Leon: The Professional, and The Fifth Element. The titular character played by podcast favorite Scarlett Johansson, is forced into being a drug mule and when she is exposed to an overdose of the drug, she 'unlocks' the rest of her brain. Predictably, things go completely off the rails. What do our two hosts make of the 10% myth and how it's portrayed in this movie? What brand of office chair can survive a 100% unlocked brain-fueled journey through space-time? What happens when an action movie director needs to set a scene during an academic symposium of some kind? All this and more on this episode!
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