Strange Things You Notice About Movies

[Gangster_Octopus]

@Leaffan

If you’re watching only one side of a phone conversation, the person doing the talking has to repeat everything the person on the other end just said. I know it’s so we can “follow along” but normal conversations don’t go like this:

Yes, I did just get home.
No, I haven’t turned the TV on yet, why?
My God, Frank is dead? When did that happen?
Yes, I’ll be right there.

It makes up for the fact that everybody in the movies has the phone book memorized.

[Neidhart]

Funerals are always held in the pouring rain, but weddings almost never are.

[OneCentStamp]

@Gangster Octopus

It makes up for the fact that everybody in the movies has the phone book memorized.

Well, to be fair, that’s much easier to pull off when everyone’s number starts with “555.”

[interface2x]

@Leaffan

If you’re watching only one side of a phone conversation, the person doing the talking has to repeat everything the person on the other end just said. I know it’s so we can “follow along” but normal conversations don’t go like this:

Yes, I did just get home.
No, I haven’t turned the TV on yet, why?
My God, Frank is dead? When did that happen?
Yes, I’ll be right there.

They riffed on this on MST3K once. The character was repeating things just like that and Mike said “What? Repeat what you say to provide exposition?”