Whether intentionally or not, what do movies depict or present wrong a lot of the time?
How often emotional vulnerability leads to positive outcomes.
So true, really common one, and that cuts to the heart of the “fakeness” that hollywood conveys in its movies
sauce?
What exactly are you hoping for here?
i don’t believe in bottling-up emotions. it creates people whose unpredictability makes interactions with zem a quaking tightrope.
How big a house an average person can afford.
Another version of this - how big an apartment/house an artist can afford.
Not if you presume they have rich parents.
Yes, and how nice it is, and how ckean it is, and how littke their csr breaks down and how sparkly and well maintained or their workplsce is, or how brilliant their job is despite being an “average, underdog hero”
How big a house an average person can afford doesn’t necessarily precisely track how big a house the average person actually purchases, mind.
I’m so very sorry I set off your well technically trigger.
the classic : no cleanup after sex
Also how everyone is like wrapping their entire body up in sheets to get up from the bed. As if they weren’t literally just fucking lol
This made one scene in the Fallout TV series very effective.
Yes and i think this would be a healthy thing to show.
Absolutely.
characters awkwardly rolling up toilet paper and changing the bedsheets for 10 minutes
Memory loss/amnesia. It works as a plot device but how often it shows up in media makes it seem like, well that’s what happens when you get bonked on the head. Amnesia is actually pretty rare.
CPR/shocking: I was so grateful that Dr. Robby called this out on The Pitt, you can’t shock asystole (flatline). Well, you can but it’s good for fuck all. I get why CPR is done poorly, if you do it for real you’re probably gonna break ribs. But they could do it as fast as it’s supposed to go at least. The dramatic pushes 3 seconds apart is also good for fuck all.
Getting knocked unconscious.
A whack to the head just puts people to sleep for a few minutes and then they carry on like normal.
Any time a car or other vehicle is involved in an accident, it erupts in a massive explosion or fireball. If every car did that IRL, the fire department would never be out of a job knowing how they hand out licenses like candy.
When I was 16 I swerved to miss a recliner in the roadway (yeah you read that right) and ended up careening off the road down an embankment. As soon as I was stopped at the bottom, I was convinced I had to clear the area because obviously the car was about to explode. It did not. So anyway that was my first and worst car accident. Why there was a recliner in the roadway is a mystery I will never solve.
there is a large overlap in the Venn diagram of people who wouldn’t notice if an entire ass recliner fell out of their pickup truck and people who fail to properly secure cargo in their pickup truck
True true… but it was situated like, fully reclined. One idea was that knuckleheads placed it there as a prank, bro. But the other, probably more reasonable, is your idea.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it flopped open like a book upon hitting the pavement
I also wouldn’t be surprised if knuckleheads placed it there like that
People getting shot or killed. In reality, they don’t die instantly. They will act more surprised, then the panic sets in as they realise what happened and the pain sets in. They will cry for help as they slowly bleed out. It will take minutes. But that doesn’t look good on the screen. Some movies did parody this.
People drinking in situations where nobody would be drinking.
And, obviously, running faster than explosions.
A lot of explosions in movies are, as I understand it, gasoline explosions (which produce a deflagration). Those are impressive and very visible and orangy and don’t actually create all that much pressure, so damage from the pressure wave or shrapnel isn’t so much a thing. You can do the stoic walk out of an explosion thing.
I think that the video of the Beirut explosion, which is large and filmed from a distance, so you can see the shockwave traveling over time, drives home how there is a lot of force going on in the air.
I’ve read that drinking is often used to communicate depression or stress to viewers. I always found it odd that everyone has a bar in their house so I started thinking about it more and did some reading.
You just need to ignore explosions like that
If you look at them, they will hurt you (a bit)
How long things take.
CPR
Yes! CPR will keep you alive long enough for the defribullator to stop your heart.
Also, it’s not even vaguely gentle. Broken ribs are extremely common
Getting hit on the head and staying unconscious for an extended period of time.
No… No that’s not how that shit works. If you’re hit on the head so hard that you are lying on the ground limp, you’re either dead, dying, or have received sever brain damage.
No that’s not how that shit works
sh.itjust.works
I can’t stand how movies and TV shows depict people. Nobody talks like that in real life, or walks like that. They don’t make those facial expresions, or say those words. It just makes them deeply unnerving for me. Its weird, because other people either don’t notice it at all or even prefer it for some reason.
I’ve noticed a distinct lack of realism in scriptwriting. Cinematographers seem to have tried realism in just about every aspect except characters’ speech.
Obviously real dialogue has limitations like stuttering, mispronouncing, forgetting/saying the wrong word, talking over each other, etc. but I feel like there are other traits of natural conversation that could be worked in without fully compromising comprehensibility
The only examples I know of that attempt speech realism are Primer and United 93
This is precisely what i was thinking of when i made this post!
I’ve known people who do put-on the “romcom/sitcom protsgonist persona” which you describe - overly bubbly, intonating words wrong, corporate speak - and long story short, they’re always untrustworthy.
How easy it is to twist someones neck to kill them.
Honestly an important reality check. I’d convinced myself it was super easy
The truth. All movies are Hollywood-, make-believe fairytales. Took me ages to find out that even documentaries only a show a particular glimpse of reality.
Cinema is the art of lie. However some documentary can create shit that permeates truth.
