Marshall Arts
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I'm an avid film enthusiast and I always like to enjoy a good movie.
However, there are certain elements I notice that are so typical. Especially action movies. I can mention some of them.
- A bartender is interviewed by the cops about a crime he witnessed. He is always standing there wiping the same glass with a cloth for minutes while they're talking. Business must be slow.
- A firearm has almost an unlimited ammo capacity. But is empty just as the protagonist is about to finish off the main villain.
- ... or they end up in a mexican stand-off. "Let's just sort this out like men and throw our guns down!". And they both fistfight instead on top of the skyscraper.
- The villain can shoot at the hero with a machine gun and not a single bullet hits our protagonist.
- The superhero can take a world of abuse without much pain. He endures being shot at, run over by a car, falling off a moving train, falling from great heights, getting beat up with baseball bats etc. But after he has killed all the villains and saved the woman (at night), she tends to his wounds while they're sitting on the back bumper of an ambulance. And he moans in pain while she's doing it. Oh, so NOW it hurts? And sometimes this scene happens in daylight. So they have been sitting there for hours?
- Multiple villains are ganging up on our hero to beat him up. Patiently waiting their turn to get their ass kicked.
- A burned out, suspended, divorced and alcoholic detective obtains a storage medium of crucial computer evidence to bring down a crime syndicate. The only problem is that it is "CIA encrypted" (or some other fancy term). No worries. His 12 year old geeky daughter had computer encryption as a school project and manages to decrypt it on her pink laptop at home in seconds. They're going down now! Her dad can't even set the clock on his car.
- Notice that he has to hand in his gun and badge to be able to solve the case on his own in his Chevrolet Caprice/Ford Crown Vic.
- When answering a phone call, hang up the phone immediately after hearing some important info. Don't ask if the caller has more information or say good bye like a normal person. "I found the guys who kidnapped your wife and where they keep her..." *click*.
These are the ones from the top of my head.
Do you have any clichés you tend to notice in films and TV series? Chime in
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Edit: Cleaned up sloppy writing.
However, there are certain elements I notice that are so typical. Especially action movies. I can mention some of them.
- A bartender is interviewed by the cops about a crime he witnessed. He is always standing there wiping the same glass with a cloth for minutes while they're talking. Business must be slow.
- A firearm has almost an unlimited ammo capacity. But is empty just as the protagonist is about to finish off the main villain.
- ... or they end up in a mexican stand-off. "Let's just sort this out like men and throw our guns down!". And they both fistfight instead on top of the skyscraper.
- The villain can shoot at the hero with a machine gun and not a single bullet hits our protagonist.
- The superhero can take a world of abuse without much pain. He endures being shot at, run over by a car, falling off a moving train, falling from great heights, getting beat up with baseball bats etc. But after he has killed all the villains and saved the woman (at night), she tends to his wounds while they're sitting on the back bumper of an ambulance. And he moans in pain while she's doing it. Oh, so NOW it hurts? And sometimes this scene happens in daylight. So they have been sitting there for hours?
- Multiple villains are ganging up on our hero to beat him up. Patiently waiting their turn to get their ass kicked.
- A burned out, suspended, divorced and alcoholic detective obtains a storage medium of crucial computer evidence to bring down a crime syndicate. The only problem is that it is "CIA encrypted" (or some other fancy term). No worries. His 12 year old geeky daughter had computer encryption as a school project and manages to decrypt it on her pink laptop at home in seconds. They're going down now! Her dad can't even set the clock on his car.
- Notice that he has to hand in his gun and badge to be able to solve the case on his own in his Chevrolet Caprice/Ford Crown Vic.
- When answering a phone call, hang up the phone immediately after hearing some important info. Don't ask if the caller has more information or say good bye like a normal person. "I found the guys who kidnapped your wife and where they keep her..." *click*.
These are the ones from the top of my head.
Do you have any clichés you tend to notice in films and TV series? Chime in
.Edit: Cleaned up sloppy writing.
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