There are many, many things people do in movies that they just don’t do in real life. Here’s a few of them – feel free to suggest others:
-light candles around the bathtub
-climb up a ladder to someone’s bedroom
-always have a bunch of celery sticking out from their grocery bag
-throw a gun away when it runs out of ammo
-grab the bedsheet to cover their naked body as they get out of bed
-give birth to a six-month-old baby
-outline a dead body in chalk
What are you talking about? I always throw away my gun when it runs out of ammo. Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do?
But really, I light candles around the tub every night. And I shop at Farmer’s Markets so I do generally have vegies sticking out of my bag. But I don’t grab the bedsheets; I just walk around the house naked.
And you know what else about that gun thing?
You never see them buy those guns or see how they get them. They just seem to magically pull them out of their clothing when needed. How does that happen?
Don’t even get me started on GUI interfaces in movies, the smoking, the exploding cars with every fender bender…
How about that movie answering amchines pick up on the first ring (granted, we don’t want to listen to four on screen) and that when you call someone, especially on a cell phone, they always recognize the voice.
Person 1: “hello”
Person 2: “I got it, let’s go!”
Person 1: “I’m on it”