# SHOCKER! Things work differently in the movies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778 "2016-05-03T14:42:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/221 "2016-05-14T03:04:52Z")
Did you ever see Mickey Spillane’s star turn as Hammer? It had happened by 1963. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/222 "2016-05-14T03:31:47Z")
I’ve been watching old episodes of _Wanted: Dead or Alive_ on MeTV channel and Josh Randall got hit over the head in every episode, with no bad effects. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/223 "2016-05-14T06:59:56Z")
The Revenant was based on an actual incident, a man named Hugh Glass, who was mauled by a bear. As in the film, he was attended by two men named Bridger and Fitzgerald, who abandoned their charge, taking his weapons. Glass reportedly recovered somewhat and then crawled and then limped to a settlement. > **[The Real Story of ‘The Revenant’ Is Far Weirder (and Bloodier) Than the Movie](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/real-story-revenant-is-far-867620/)** > > Hugh Glass, the protagonist of the story, never was chased off a cliff, cut a dead horse open for warmth or had a half-Pawnee son. But the frontiersman played by DiCaprio lived a life even more fan… Some of the other tropes mentioned are probably dead. I can’t actually think of a show I’ve seen where heavy drinking doesn’t lead to a hangover (if anything, hangovers are exaggerated) and the last rendition of a baguette in a shopping bag I can recall was in Michael Clayton, where the insane lawyer has a big sack of them. I don’t really watch all that many shows or movies, so maybe there’s genres where cliches still get used and I don’t know about it. But if you’re watching daytime schlock maybe you should be rolling your eyes at yourself, not the show. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/224 "2016-05-14T07:50:56Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > There’s no such thing as a truth drug, either. You’re lying! I know how to get to the bottom of THIS, you fiend! ---
**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:** [May 14, 2016, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/225 "2016-05-14T08:52:29Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > How many times in his career was Mike Hammer knocked out? The guy should have been a slurring stumbling wreck by the later books. Hell, how many times in just one season of _Lost_ was Ben Linus beaten to a pulp? That guy should have been a zombie but instead managed to shake it off better than any other wimpy guy ever known. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/226 "2016-05-15T13:23:22Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > And when was the last time you carried home your groceries in a brown paper bag with a baguette sticking out of it. Yesterday… I like baguettes. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/227 "2016-05-15T20:00:39Z")
The orange juice pitcher at breakfast. Even on a school/work day, the kids come downstairs at 7am, and there is a sumptuous full breakfast, usually cooked by Mom, who also has to go to work, but the table is set with with the pitcher of orange juice sitting in the middle of the table. No cartons in movie land. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/228 "2016-05-15T20:09:04Z")
What kind of mom _wouldn’t_ have fresh squeezed juice on the table? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/229 "2016-05-15T20:49:52Z")
Not to mention a pitcher of milk instead of the carton from the store. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/230 "2016-05-16T11:32:10Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > Martial arts fighters and boxers… ? football players? they all get knocked out dazed and confused. The point was its kinda random. if you hit one guy on the skull, he might be knocked out, you hit the next guy the same way, he can have his skull broken away and brain hanging out and he’s seeking revenge on you. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/231 "2016-05-16T11:38:53Z")
> [@MacLir](#): > > I think maybe they were referring to the trope of a “naked” baguette sticking out of the bag. The loaf is in its own bag now. More like the trope of everybody who ever buys any groceries in a American movie using paper bags and having one baguette except if they have one piece of celery instead; the amount of baguettes is invariant with regards to family size. Bachelor? One baguette. Bachelorette? One single piece of celery. The Brady bunch, Eight is enough, the next generation of either? One baguette. And if they are later shown doing anything in the kitchen other than put away those groceries, the baguette is nowhere to be seen and all bread is of the non-baguette types. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/232 "2016-05-16T14:35:28Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > The orange juice pitcher at breakfast. > > Even on a school/work day, the kids come downstairs at 7am, and there is a sumptuous full breakfast, usually cooked by Mom, who also has to go to work, but the table is set with with the pitcher of orange juice sitting in the middle of the table. > > No cartons in movie land. Not to mention the BRIGHT CHEERY MORNING SUNSHINE POURING through the windows at 7:00 am! ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/233 "2016-05-16T18:56:32Z")
> [@Totenfeier](#): > > Not to mention the BRIGHT CHEERY MORNING SUNSHINE That can happen in June at higher latitudes. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/234 "2016-05-16T21:41:16Z")
> [@Totenfeier](#): > > Not to mention the BRIGHT CHEERY MORNING SUNSHINE POURING through the windows at 7:00 am! Note that the sunbeams come thru _all_ the windows, even the ones on the opposite side of the house. _Grey’s Anatomy_ was esp. bad at this. They would even have sunbeams coming in windows at 6am in the winter. In Seattle, famous for its long winter daylight hours without rain. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/235 "2016-05-16T22:19:30Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > That can happen in June at higher latitudes. Well, in that case, I’m _low_-_down_! ---
**Author:** ![stosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@stosh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stosh)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/236 "2016-05-19T19:15:53Z")
I’m pretty sure this one hasn’t been mentioned, but I didn’t read through all of the posts. Nobody uses a holster, they just stick the gun in the back of their pants. When a man and a woman are running from anything, they must hold hands while running. That way if one trips and falls, they both go down. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/237 "2016-05-20T12:51:10Z")
In spite of what you might see in the various Law & Order franchises, very few people have been shot on the stairs or jumped off the roof of the New York County Courthouse at 60 Centre Street. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/238 "2016-05-20T15:41:32Z")
> [@stosh](#): > > Nobody uses a holster, they just stick the gun in the back of their pants. If they stuck it in the front of their pants, they might go off half-cocked. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/239 "2016-05-20T17:13:29Z")
When you go into a restaurant, bar, corner coffee shop, or hamburger joint with a funny Japanese owner named “Arnold” it actually costs money which often you dont have and if you do go to those places it will quickly drain your bank account. Plus the owners dont really like people taking up booth or table space if they are not buying anything even if they are clever fun people who always having an interesting adventure. And back to bars, I cannot think of one where nobody actually gets drunk. And bartenders and waitresses are never your friends. They want your money and thats about it. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/240 "2016-05-20T17:29:11Z")
Most writers do not solve an average of two murders a month due to incompetent law enforcement officers. (“Murder She Wrote” ran for 264 episodes!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778.md?page=13)