XPost: rec.puzzles, alt.usage.english
From: occam@nowhere.nix

On 12/04/2024 10:50, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>

>
> Sure. There is a long list of things that for various reasons happen much
more
> often in televised and film drama. Over-explication, the US winning and
> achieving things completely ahistorically (see the recent Queen’s Gambit
> Netflix series for this; see also a film about twenty years ago regarding the
> Enigma codebreakers.) Movies are not particularly representative of real
life.

Especially when made by Hollywood.  I'm waiting for the film where US
won the war in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan. (Allow for 20 years for
the memory to fade.)

> in a movie, a guy is on the phone,  and the person (on the other end)
> (often a woman)  hangs up I've always felt that this happens 100+ 	
> times more often in movies than in real life...

Don't forget, in the movie the man also looks at the handset after the
hang-up, and sneers.

There is a brilliant Netflix documentary where all these movie clichés
are documented.  One that sticks in mind: "Why do women always run away
from danger in high-heels"?

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