things hollywood gets wrong with your line of work (actors, watching, price)
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Another officer tried to order us to do something that would severely damage the ship's engines. We all refused to obey his order. He threatened to bring us up on charges but we still refused to obey his order.
That's just smart seamanship in my book!
Thanks for the stories; I find them enlightening. The regular enlisted man just doesn't get enough respect, but without him the whole military would grind to a halt.
Also, am a tech/IT guy by trade. I see so much wrong in movies I can't keep track, lol. Most of it can be put off to entertainment but some of it is so bad it ruins my ability to enjoy the movie.
I've been in IT since 1982.
Vast boards with blinking lights went out in about 1975. Ditto the round reel drives - we switched to cartridges around 1988, followed by robotic tape mounts.
Nowadays, everything is encased in blank mental boxes. It's hard to differentiate between the mainframe and disk storage.
The people. *sheesh* Not dweebs with horn rim glasses and pocket protectors, and not intense super brainoids. Walk into the average data center and you'll see regular schmoes dressed in Dockers and casual clothes. Us night shifters (who actually oversee the major amount of processing) will be really dressed down - jeans and sweatshirts.
At one data center an advertising flyer was to be created, touting our services. We regular people were shooed out of the room, our stations were then staffed with agency models. Now, they did look the part: chiseled features, designer glasses, pressed suits and shiny shoes - they stared intently into the screens like they were counting down to a missile liftoff. We were standing in the background hissing and catcalling as the pictures were being taken until a manager came around and told us to scram until the photo shoot was done
I'm at a Stately Home where they filmed The Young Victoria last year.
Historical inaccuracies abound, but that is mainly artistic licence.
One blooper was to have a Rennie Mackintosh cushion in one of the shots. He was born in the 1860s and the film was set around 1837. Just a small point.
However they also filmed part of Barry Lyndon there back in the 1970s, the director being Stanley Kubrick.
There is one scene where, if you look closely, there is a car in the background. Interesting as it's set in the 18th Century.
I've always lived in a house with real people living in it. Not like movie set kitchens, where the dining table and all counter tops are cleared off and all the dishes are washed and none left to dry in the drainage rack and there no pots and pans on the stove top. The only kitchen faux pas that ever occurs is somebody drinks milk right out of the carton.
Oh, have you ever noticed that every movie has a funeral scene in it?
And the driver drives the whole way looking at the passenger he is talking to, with only occasional glances out the windshield.
I've always lived in a house with real people living in it. Not like movie set kitchens, where the dining table and all counter tops are cleared off and all the dishes are washed and none left to dry in the drainage rack and there no pots and pans on the stove top. The only kitchen faux pas that ever occurs is somebody drinks milk right out of the carton.
One of my friend's houses was always very clean and orderly, and it always reminded me of a movie set. The kitchen was pristine and no dishes were ever seen on the counter or in the sink or drainage rack. I always found it weird.
Also, for now, I only work in retail. But if I tried to get away with a portion of the things retail workers in the movies do or say I'd probably be fired in a heartbeat, and my boss is pretty laid back and lets us get away with a lot of stuff we shouldn't do as it is.
I'm a part time computer geek/graphics engineer. I always laugh in movies when they take a digital image that his horribly low resolution (grainy) and 'enhance' it to crystal clear quality. You can't 'enhance' information that doesn't exist.
Also, having been raised by a geologist, the physical and earth science in movies can be laughingly bad. At some point you have to say "it's just a movie" or you won't be able to enjoy the flick.
How come whenever someone uses a computer in the movies, they are always expert typists and never have to delete or retype any letters? Their "google search" always hits on the first try.
They don't make many movies about non-profit fundraisers, but in another life I was a newspaper reporter and movies and TV shows are loaded with exaggerations. A few films do a good job of depicting journalists' day-to-day jobs, but journalists in non-journalism movies are usually depicted as National Enquirer barking stereotypes.
I think only once or twice in my career did I phyiscally chase after a news source ... in heels.
One of my friend's houses was always very clean and orderly, and it always reminded me of a movie set. The kitchen was pristine and no dishes were ever seen on the counter or in the sink or drainage rack. I always found it weird.
My mom's house is like that -- looks like nobody lives in it. It's a Norwegian thing, most of 'em keep house like that!!
[eyeing biology experiments in my kitchen] It's obvious that I'm only half Norwegian.
People with money who can afford live-in maids also have houses like that, tho... I worked in Hollyweird for several years and sometimes on location in some fancy house. They look fake even from the inside -- you'd swear no one ever set foot in there, but people live in 'em.
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