Whether intentionally or not, what do movies depict or present wrong a lot of the time?
When is the last time you saw someone in a movie hotwire a car?
According to every movie I’ve seen, the way it’s done is you reach under the steering wheel and yank down a panel that is apparently velcroed on. A bunch of loose wires dump out, including two wires conveniently in front whose ends are conveniently stripped and tinned. You grab these two wires and strike them against each other like flint and steel. This apparently switches on the vehicle’s electrical and ignition systems, disengages the steering lock and engages the starter motor.
Funnily enough you actually could hotwire a plane like that; because of how magnetos work, turning the ignition systems on is accomplished by disconnecting a couple wires.
Firearms in general.
Supressors as well. If two guys were walking through an airport shooting at each other everyone would still know it. Also a suppressor has a pop on the first shot.
If you have your firearm knowledge from movies and TV you don’t know anything except what Hollywood wants you to think.
In anti-authoritarian movies, they don’t go beyond what happens after the revolution or “the day after” as Slavoj Zizek always say. Unfortunately in real life, post-revolutions do not always lead to a happy ending. Just ask most of post-colonial states. Only a handful succeed and become prosperous and secure.
This is a notable fact! Again, inaccurate movies will push viewers into making bad choices.
One of my favourite games ever, The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante, talks about this a lot. It’s a choose-your-own-adventure and no matter what end goals you focus on you will have to make many choices that sacrifice your own character’s happiness, or that of their family, in some way, just to make sure that you don’t get a “bad ending” where your faction loses during the revolt at the end of the game.
I’m thinking about it a lot because it’s sequel comes out soon.
Two TV shows which manage to accurately convey revolutionary failure are Andor and Deutschland 83
The good guy winning.
Guy gets shot and the impact sends him flying across the room, out the window, etc. Physics says “oh hell no”. The guy who fired that shot would have likely had his arm dislocated from the recoil if he was able to even hold onto it.
Yeah, I saw John Wick 2 as well.
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
Getting knocked unconscious.
The fight scenes, most people would die. In the movies they walk away.
Giving birth. In movies and TV shows it’s always this sudden thing. Like “My water broke! The baby is coming!” then there is some pushing and screaming and bam, baby. In reality, having a baby takes many many hours and often times days, even with induced labor.
Yeah
How comfortable people are dragging their nice clothes/long coats/shoes into water and mud. How many times you see a woman in a period piece with this long flowing dress, traipsing through a big muddy area and not even attempting to hold her dress up out of it. like, c’mon, man. People in movies just don’t care about having wet socks I guess.
There’s a Youtuber named Bernadette Banner who does a lot of antique style sewing and fashion and such. She made a replica of the white dress Mary Poppins wears in the cartoon segment of the movie. At the end of the video, she frolicked in the park in it. The next video was the 3 day process of period accurate washing it. She followed a manual written back in the day, and omitted the gasoline(!) the detergent recipe called for.
Not to mention that for period pieces especially that’s probably one of only like three dresses/pants they own, if they’re relatively well-off.
How big a house an average person can afford.
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.
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”
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
Romantic relationships. Way too much stalking and abuse of power. Far too many very large age gaps. All that stuff.
Find me a romantic comedy that doesn’t depict either of the two leads being psychotic or felonious.
How heavy a full cup of coffee feels. The actors always treat it like the cup is empty. Liars!
This goes for ANY container. I mostly notice empty suitcases.
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
