Nerds on Film: 10 Techie Character Types We Love

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Brandon Smith
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Nerds on Film: 10 Techie Character Types We Love

We love movies. We especially love movies featuring nonexistent technology, innovative science, fancy gadgets, modified cars and robots. Lots and lots of robots.

Fortunately for us, the big studios give us a healthy dose every summer. But combining original concepts and great writing can get complicated -- movies often draw on the plot twists, locations and, of course, characters of previous works.

This isn't always a bad thing. New actors usually develop different takes on archetypal characters to keep things fresh. So we got to thinking about the character archetypes that exist in our favorite tech-related movies.

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