“You Are Going To Be Dead, My Dude”: 50 Internet Users Ruin Popular Movie Tropes With Their In-Depth Knowledge

We all know that unless we’re watching a particularly well-researched and historically accurate documentary that the things featured in films and TV shows simply aren’t real. The writers and directors have to take certain creative liberties to create drama and tension and move the story along.

However, once you know something to be factually false, it can take you out of the story. Redditor u/Eatar sparked an interesting discussion on r/movies when they asked everyone to use their technical knowledge to ‘ruin’ popular movie tropes for everyone else. Scroll down to see what they shared. But be warned, Pandas, you might not be able to look at fire alarms, chloroform, silencers, and courtroom drama the same ever again!

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When we go to the cinema or put on a movie at home, we’re entering into a sort of unspoken agreement with the team behind the entire project. They promise to entertain us somehow. Meanwhile, we subtly promise to go along with the story… so long as most things make sense within the context of the story.

The audience willingly suspends its disbelief, and in return, they get to go on a journey of adventure, intrigue, romance, mystery, horror, or all of the above.

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The main issue when it comes to immersion is believability. When building up the world of the film, the director, producers, and writers have to pay attention to how the details work together in unison. Let’s reiterate that everything has to make sense in the context of the story that’s being told.

For example, you can certainly enjoy a story about knights, dragons, and political intrigue even though dragons don’t exist. However, everything would fall apart if you suddenly added poor story development, stiff dialogue, irrational battle tactics, and illogical character motivations that flip-flop from one episode to the next. The events can (and even should!) be dramatic, but they have to be somewhat grounded and believable. You have to build up to the payoff instead of slapping your audience with illogical ‘twists’ that will make them grumble at the water cooler the next day.

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"There can be a dragon. The dragon can swear, smoke cigars, and drink whiskey if it wants to. But if it starts talking about cigars and whiskey and gets basic facts (which are easily found) wrong, someone's going to notice, and that will pull them out of the moment. The audience will willingly accept the big stuff, or they wouldn’t watch the movie. It's the small stuff that's distracting, and sometimes you wonder if they could've avoided it,” writer and movie fan Christopher Burke explained to Bored Panda earlier.

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"Every now and then, I find myself focusing on something that just takes me out of it. Information is readily available. I would rather that the movie makers created a fictitious train, such as the T line, than use a real line and have it go where it doesn't belong (and no one has a problem with this)," the author gave an example of how subway systems should (not) be used in films.

"Using Vancouver or Toronto for Brooklyn is fine. I accept that. Using Hoyt–Schermerhorn as a stand-in for City Hall is fine, too,” he urged the teams creating movies to do some proper fact-checking so that they could maintain the immersion for more people for longer.