# Behaviour you copied from movies ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 6, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931 "2007-06-06T01:44:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931/41 "2007-06-08T19:06:46Z")
[QUOTE=Fiver] _Au contraire,_ I know **exactly** how it works. [/QUOTE] So then you know most males would like to be as close to you as possible when you remove that suit, right? 😉 They’d only want be be “a few yards” away if their camera wasn’t good at close-ups. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931/42 "2007-06-09T05:55:56Z")
Cracking open an egg one-handed. Several years ago, I saw a characted in some Bollywood movie do it, and I remember thinking, “That is WAY cool!” A half dozen ruined eggs later, I was dropping the yolk unbroken into the frying pan, with the shell cleanly broken into 2 halves. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931/43 "2007-06-09T06:00:11Z")
After I first saw _Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas,_ I went around talking like Hunter S. Thompson for a while. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931/44 "2007-06-09T11:09:33Z")
[QUOTE=Sitnam] In my formative video game playing days I wouldn’t stop yelling, “See this? This is my **BOOM** stick!” To those who know no introduction is needed, to those who don’t none will suffice. [/QUOTE] Better that than “Say hello to my little frien’!” Damn, I’m getting sick of that one. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931/45 "2007-06-10T03:29:11Z")
I’ve read that gangsters in the 1930s learned how to talk and act from watching gangster films. They aped them very well. ---
**Author:** ![T\_SQUARE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@T\_SQUARE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T_SQUARE)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931/46 "2007-06-10T03:42:13Z")
Whenever I’m hungry, I suggest to those nearby that we “Go get a taco or something” even if I would prefer a burger. I think this was in Reservoir Dogs. Oh, and when I fly into Vegas, over the desert I always say “There’s a lot of people buried in holes out in that desert” (Casino) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931/47 "2007-06-10T03:50:18Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] I’ve read that gangsters in the 1930s learned how to talk and act from watching gangster films. They aped them very well. [/QUOTE] Have you ever been to Sigma Iotia II? ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931/48 "2007-06-10T03:50:47Z")
My best friend and I got our hair cut like Mel Gibson’s in The Year Of Living Dangerously after seeing it in the early 80’s. This was highly unusual at the U of Wisconsin at the time, but our impulsive move paid off with the ladies, big time. ---
**Author:** ![T\_SQUARE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@T\_SQUARE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T_SQUARE)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931/49 "2007-06-10T04:21:32Z")
Oh, and you will _never_ see me bowling (which I do about thrice a decade) without a White Russian. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931/50 "2007-06-10T04:43:57Z")
[QUOTE=T\_SQUARE] Oh, and you will _never_ see me bowling (which I do about thrice a decade) without a White Russian. [/QUOTE] Let’s go. I make a mean Caucasian. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931/51 "2007-06-10T06:12:18Z")
[QUOTE=NoClueBoy] Have you ever been to Sigma Iotia II? [/QUOTE] Yeah, something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931/52 "2007-06-10T07:46:59Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] After I first saw _Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas,_ I went around talking like Hunter S. Thompson for a while. [/QUOTE] All I did was, whenever we were on a road trip I would say, “We can’t stop here, this is bat country!” Only every time we had a rest stop. Pretty soon everybody was saying it. (By everyone I mean my kids, who had not seen the movie.) ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931/53 "2007-06-10T07:49:46Z")
I couldn’t drink Merlot for a good month after seeing _Sideways._ As a kid, I heard somebody in a movie–or perhaps a TV show–say, “He puts his pants on one leg at a time like everybody else.” This inspired me to adapt a new dressing style. Hold pants up. Sit on bed. Stick both legs in pants legs simultaneously, while elevating legs over head, then leaping onto feet while pulling pants up to my waist. I was very proud of myself for not putting my pants on one leg at a time like everybody else. I thought I’d probably amount to something, someday. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931/54 "2007-06-10T08:13:16Z")
[QUOTE=Hilarity N. Suze] I couldn’t drink Merlot for a good month after seeing _Sideways._ [/QUOTE] I feel your pain. I couldn’t fantasize about Sandra Oh for quite awhile myself. From some '30s-'40s star or another I picked up the habit of putting hands in pockets so that the front flap of my suit coat is tucked back _behind_ my hand with the coat buttoned, not covering it up as Og intended. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931/55 "2007-06-10T14:38:49Z")
As a teenager Iwent through a phase of turning upright chairs around and sitting with my elbows resting on the back as per Western Movies cos I thought it made me look tough but stopped doing it when I realised I looked like a twat. Still hook my thumbs in my belt though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/behaviour-you-copied-from-movies/406931.md?page=2)