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Dec 11, 2009 - 11:33 PM
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antipodean
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...actors are playing a musical instrument, and their fingering/bowing/keying bears no resemblance whatsoever to the music they're supposedly playing
...you don't ever have to wait for an elevator, except, of course, when you're being chased by a maniac serial-killer, in which case it never comes
...elevators don't have double-doors (the easiest givaway that it's a set, and not a real-life building)
...laser beams are actually visible in space - and travel slow enough that you can see them flying from point A to point B
...people can crawl around in dust, grime and pest-free ventilation shafts
...whenever the hero has to fight a bunch of people, they line up to get beaten one by one, rather all of them just scrumming him
...people buying stuff can pull the exact cash amount out of their pockets without even looking or counting
...whenever someone is told to turn on the television, it is always the right channel and timed to the exact moment to catch the news report he or she is supposed catch
...supposedly highly-trained, elite military or police characters move in such a tight bunch that one good enfilade (or a grenade) from ambush would take them all out
...make a loud, dramatic gesture of cocking their weapons, especially when they're just about to ambush someone (In a tactical situation, you'd be surprised how loud and distinctive that particular sound is.)
...signs off a radio communication with "over and out". ("Over" means "I have finished speaking and awaiting your reply"; "Out" means "I have finished speaking and do not expect a reply". In formal radio discipline, you never say "over and out.")
...or says "repeat" as a request for someone to say something again. (In the military, "repeat" is a specific command which is used in directing and requesting artillery fire. The correct term should be "say again".)
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Gotta agree with Greg--has Jack Bauer's cellphone EVER gone dead in all the season's of 24 despite almost constant use?
For me, the most truthful moment in a film or tv show goes WAY back to 1962-63 when Warren Oates and another doofus rodeo buddy break into an office on STONEY BURKE, find the incriminating document, try to copy in in an early sixties copier, and end up gumming up the whole machine.
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What I really hate, and it's becoming more and more prevalent as films dumb down, is ridic 'pointer' dialogue for the audience's benefit that the characters would never say.
'You've had a rough time recently, Jack.'
'Why yes John, ever since the Nazis invaded Poland and forced me into exile, and my neighbour's wife ran off with a mailman and stole my car which alienated me from the other members of the golf-club that I joined when my Uncle was elected governor of Gonkovia, things haven't been so easy.'
There should be more inventive ways to get the necessary off-scene givens available to the audience, and more should be told visually anyhow.
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watching LIFE ON MARS....
two cops are listening to the radio about a crime they solved when one of them turns the radio off
you see this all the time
with the tele too
Thor, if a radio broadcaster came on the radio , or tele and said you were a suspected serial killer , would YOU turn it off?
didn't thinks so
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WHEN SOMEONE GETS ANGRY THEY SWEEP ALL THE items off their desk in a fit of rage.
I know Zooba does this to show he is "ACTING".
but what's the rest of Hollywood's excuse?
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