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* Religious people are always portrayed as fundamental, intolerant, evil, and twisted individuals, always raging on and on complete with bible quotes peppered throughout their dialogue.
And increasingly, unless it's a Hallmark channel movie, rural people are portrayed as aw-shucks-sort-of-dumb-but friendly-and-helpful folks. But we all know that lurking under the surface is an evil morass of incest, murder and dark family secrets.
Horses can only gallop a couple of minutes---not across the entire sagebrush desert. Nope, not even a stagecoach can keep galloping indefinitely, and I'm pretty sure they were not allowed to gallop through town.
Horses are routinely depicted as fully saddled with bridle, just standing there all night long by the campsite with its eternal, yet needless campfire that never needs to be stoked even though it's just 2 small branches.
Horses need to eat and drink---grazing all night if working in the day.
Horses will jump over flaming wagons and deep ravines when in reality, they are scared of a plastic bag.
Flaming torches that last hours in that deep dark cave. Lit torches are everywhere in a movie scene and they stay lit forever even in medieval times.
Every nighttime street scene in NYC or Chicago has 50-gallon drums on fire and homeless guys warming their hands over it.
Every pregnant female finds out by suddenly vomiting. No clue before the hurl.
No female in my extended family has ever had morning sickness. It's not ubiquitous except in the movies.
And the vomiter always sinks down to their knees and hugs the porcelain throne as if were their pillow....no need to touch the toilet while vomiting, lol.
Person strolls in, and is put in a comfortable bed in a nicely furnished private room, with a luxurious bed made up with softly colored sheets and coverlet while they wait for an outpatient test or procedure. An attractive nurse in pristine scrubs says, "Let me take your temperature while you wait for your CT scan, Mr. Smith," while a couple of doctors watch through the huge window separating the room from the hall, discussing the case.
In real life,
Beds are for admitted patients who are probably going to spend at least one night, if they live that long.
You're lucky if they have a curtain between your narrow little gurney and the next patient.
If they offer you a blanket, it will probably turn out to be a heavy sheet; white, so they can bleach out the stains from body fluids.
Nurses and technicians are often understandably rumpled. Some are even middle aged or ugly. Ditto for doctors.
That big window would be expensive. Expect a wall.
You should really hope your doctors aren't hanging out in the hallway.
Person strolls in, and is put in a comfortable bed in a nicely furnished private room, with a luxurious bed made up with softly colored sheets and coverlet while they wait for an outpatient test or procedure. An attractive nurse in pristine scrubs says, "Let me take your temperature while you wait for your CT scan, Mr. Smith," while a couple of doctors watch through the huge window separating the room from the hall, discussing the case.
In real life,
Beds are for admitted patients who are probably going to spend at least one night, if they live that long.
You're lucky if they have a curtain between your narrow little gurney and the next patient.
If they offer you a blanket, it will probably turn out to be a heavy sheet; white, so they can bleach out the stains from body fluids.
Nurses and technicians are often understandably rumpled. Some are even middle aged or ugly. Ditto for doctors.
That big window would be expensive. Expect a wall.
You should really hope your doctors aren't hanging out in the hallway.
Soap operas are also famous for giving people the royal treatment in a hospital!
They usually say, "we want to keep him 24 hours for observation." They want to kick you out asap as soon as
they're finished with a patient. And you can wait at least 24 hours to get admitted.
Brilliant surgeons are usually young and attractive. They look like they just finished modeling school, not
medical school.
Doctors act very concerned and usually aren't rude.
They always have a coffee machine available!
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The hero diffuses the time bomb when the timer reaches 1 or 2 seconds. Earlier, his best friend failed and got blown up.
And he agonizes for far too long about just 'how' to defuse it/which wire to cut, when the bomb is plastic explosive that could have been very easily disabled just by pulling the blasting caps out and cutting the wires to *them*.
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Drinking coffee while on surveillance. A big no no in real life because the moment you go to the bathroom is when your subject does what you were supposed to be watching and you miss the money shot.
I have spent many, many hours watching buildings/vehicles, consuming huge amounts of coffee so as not to fall asleep from sheer boredom. You very quickly learn to keep some empty plastic bottles (like the large-mouth Gatorade bottles) with caps in the vehicle, or use your [now empty] coffee cup. For the ladies, it's a bit more difficult.
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The hero can hot wire any car, even new ones, in a matter of seconds by grabbing two wires with exposed ends and touching them together. I'd need the manual to figure that out on my own car.
Not to mention, most relatively modern vehicles have steering wheel and transmission locks (auto-trans, anyway) that prevent them from being functional unless the ignition switch is turned.
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Driver turns to passenger, several seconds of dialogue. Try taking your eyes off the road for that long and see what happens.
I used to see that years ago on the old show Adam-12, the young kid (Reed) would spend inordinate amounts of time looking at the older cop Malloy) while driving down the road, talking. Sheesh, look where you're going already.
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Run out of bullets, throw away the gun, or throw it at somebody who invariably ducks.
Or they are out/almost out of ammo, manage to disable the 'bad guy' and they don't bother to pick up the bad guy's weapons so that they will have something to use against the *rest* of the bad guys.
If the bad guy is better armed than I am, I'm taking his stuff.
If a woman is being chased on foot, she will trip and fall.
As the dramatic tension rises in a horror movie, at the very worst possible time, there will be a power failure. (This was subverted, to excellent effect, in The Shining.)
When someone is driving in a big city, they never have to stop, because apparently there is no traffic congestion and all the lights are green. (The only exception is when it's a chase scene, and they blow through a red light and barely miss the cars already in the intersection.)
English-speaking Mexican or Spanish people are incapable of saying the words "mister" or "sir," so they always say "senor."
If someone attempts to jump a raised drawbridge, they will do it successfully. (In real life, there is a large gap between the draw span and the fixed part of the bridge, and anyone jumping the raised bridge will slide down the other side straight into that gap and almost certainly be killed.)
No one has to wait for a plane or a train or a bus, and these vehicles will close their doors and depart as soon as the protagonist steps on board.
People only board ships when they've pulled a few feet away from the dock.
The plain girl suffers with feelings of inadequacy for almost the entire movie, until she discovers that she can make herself beautiful by simply letting her hair down or removing her glasses.
If there is one black guy in a group of white people, the odds are good that he will die, probably in a heroic fashion.
Young Asian guys can be math nerds or martial-arts experts (or sometimes both), but nothing else. They do not get to kiss any girls. When they get to be older, they're allowed to dispense sage wisdom.
Funerals and haunted houses cause rain storms.
If a building is on fire, the protagonist will slowly, carefully make his way to where his love interest is trapped and manage to save her. Everything around them will be on fire, but it won't spread any further until just after they get outside.
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Soap operas are also famous for giving people the royal treatment in a hospital!
If the bad guy is better armed than I am, I'm taking his stuff.
