I was reading this essay curious to understand how Richard Feynman distinguished knowing from understanding but was struck by his definition of what is means to have "fantastic imagination"

"If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery. It is very nearly impossible, but not quite, to find any theory which agrees with experiments over the entire range in which all theories have been checked, and yet gives different consequences in some other range, even a theory whose different consequences do not turn out to agree with nature. A new idea is extremely difficult to think of. It takes a fantastic imagination…”

As someone from with a very rudimentary science background, I was not able to fully appreciate how imagination plays a role in discovery but it got be thinking about art and literature where it is easier for me to see imagination. The framework Feynman proposes should still work. If a movie or a book is genre-defying, intelligent and imaginative then is it the case that it "gives different consequences in some other range, even a theory whose different consequences do not turn out to agree with nature." and is that the reason it is special in the ways that it is, gets the reader and audience to alter their perspective entirely.