# Stupid Computer tricks in Television and Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-computer-tricks-in-television-and-movies/1021359 "2025-07-26T15:30:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-computer-tricks-in-television-and-movies/1021359/121 "2025-07-30T11:50:07Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > I always hate that, I can’t tell when I’ve mistyped and have locked myself out of my own accounts more than once without even knowing what I did wrong. I don’t like it either > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Why? Unless someone is watching me on CCTV with a really good zoom and enhance feature, nobody will see what I’m typing. Sometimes computer terminals are next to each other, and someone could [shoulder-surf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_surfing_(computer_security)) your password from a few feet away > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > In many apps it’s possible to turn off that feature so you can see what you’re typing. Just click on the eye icon. I always do. I’ve used systems that don’t have the eye icon, unfortunately (for me) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-computer-tricks-in-television-and-movies/1021359/122 "2025-07-30T13:09:44Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Nevermind. Found it. But what it put in was exactly what I had typed. Why didn’t it put up a spoiler? If you’re putting tags around something that’s more than one line, each tag needs to be on its own line, also. That’s a common source of manually-typed tags not working. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-computer-tricks-in-television-and-movies/1021359/123 "2025-07-30T17:20:45Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > _Blow-Up_ takes it to his post-modernist conclusion that [if you look at anything too closely, nothing is real](https://youtu.be/J233dtTCgR4?si=6mhP1B5a5UgOjv79). > > Stranger Where in the five-minute clip should I look? ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-computer-tricks-in-television-and-movies/1021359/124 "2025-07-30T17:51:10Z")
Probably in a different clip. This is the part where the photographer (Thomas) discovers that nothing is real. [Tennis Match.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TYyhRbQBgs) ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-computer-tricks-in-television-and-movies/1021359/125 "2025-07-30T17:59:10Z")
Apparently the scriptwriter had a conventional, coherent murder mystery written out, with a denouement and everything, but Antonioni made this film instead, which is much more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-computer-tricks-in-television-and-movies/1021359/126 "2025-07-30T20:43:42Z")
> [@eburacum45](#): > > Probably in a different clip. This is the part where the photographer (Thomas) discovers that nothing is real. > [@eburacum45](#): > > Apparently the scriptwriter had a conventional, coherent murder mystery written out, with a denouement and everything, Which is how the film starts out-- you think you are just watching a conventional, albeit, 60s style, murder mystery. I don’t think you can get a feel for the film from clips. There are lots of things that “make” it, and you need to experience the whole-- for example (and, IIRC; I saw it sometime in the 80s), there was no soundtrack music, except over the opening and the credits. All the music during the story is diegetic-- and there’s plenty of it, so it isn’t immediately obvious. But it helps put you in the head of the POV character. ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-computer-tricks-in-television-and-movies/1021359/127 "2025-07-30T20:52:50Z")
My brother was a professional photographer in the 60s in London, and he said that this film was fairly accurate, especially the sex and drugs. Certainly I remember his studio full of photogenic junk from antique shops. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-computer-tricks-in-television-and-movies/1021359.md?page=6)