Drive, hell - when running. IIRC there’s a chase scene in the original Lethal Weapon where they start somewhere in the Valley, turn a corner and they’re suddenly on Sunset Blvd. miles away.
I think “designated lunch period” meant more than the hours when the cafeteria was open. In high school, generally everyone has an assigned lunch period when they aren’t scheduled for a class during the time the cafeteria is open. There might be exceptions, such as if a senior only needs a few classes to graduate and is only at school for 4 hours a day. Possibly a person might be permitted to skip lunch if they needed that on extra class to graduate rather than delaying graduation for a single class. That’s not so much a thing in college- no one would have prevented me from registering for classes from 8am to 4 pm with no break, if that’s what I wanted to do.
That’s fine. We also had a student union with a normal “fast food” kind of serving. You could also brown bag or go off campus. Or as you note, schedule classes from 8 am to 9 pm (we had night classes, too!). That’s dedicated!
But the one thing that made my transition to college relatively painless was that it was a lot like HS. Aside from the cafeteria situation, my 101 Entry Econ in my first semester was virtually identical to my senior HS econ class. I’m not sure if my HS was advanced or my college was behind, but it gave me more time to work on Calc, which I did NOT understand!
Also, the frats are off campus. Plenty of people live off campus, but then you have kitchens and stuff and aren’t reliant upon getting a meal plan with the cafeteria. Maybe you can get a meal plan still, but my experience was that meal plans went with being in the dorms.
I had meal plans when I lived off campus at several universities. Not a full plan. IIRC I usually went with a 50% plan that let me do either breakfast/lunch or dinner 5 days a week.
The usual trick was to save points so you could hit the Commons for Sunday Brunch. Only cost you breakfast points but you could stuff yourself until you wouldn’t be hungry until dinner Monday night.
I was in College about forty years ago and on the meal plan for some of the four years. The cafeteria would prepare you a boxed lunch if you had classes during the time when they were serving lunch or were going to be away from campus.
BTW, no particular reason my post was in reply to @Jay_Z.
You don’t have to know exactly what they look like to realize they don’t look like animation.
The muzzle flash isn’t a sound it’s the flash of fire that comes out of the end of a gun when it’s fired. Military rifles have flash suppressors to lessen the visible amount of flame.
Also, muzzle flashes are normally not bright during the day. I’ve seldom seen them coming from firearms; usually there’s just smoke (and not much of that). At night, however, they’re quite brilliant and can give away your position even if suppressed.
Another thing that’s added during post-production is sparks whenever a bullet strikes anything made of metal (and sometimes bricks or concrete). I’ve never seen anything like this in real life, and it looks really stupid.
It should also be noted that the main function of a flash suppressor is to stop muzzle flashes from blinding whoever is firing the weapon. Hiding them from anyone else is a physical impossibility.
True - I misspoke. I should have said “what a muzzle flash would look like, or a gunshot would sound like”.
I have, on rare occasions, heard what I am pretty sure are gunshots. They sound like cap guns or something, not like what you hear on TV. A lot of TV/movie sound effects are quite different from the real life sound (e.g. the loud sound when you hit someone with a fist).
In any case, I suspect that many viewers wouldn’t realize the flash or sound was not perfect, and if modern technology can’t come up with a plausible CGI / foley replacement, I’d be very surprised.
Ditto blood. I’ve only seen largeish amounts of blood (more than a few drops) maybe once in my life - was at a blood bank, in the cookies-and-juice section, when the fellow next to me sprung a leak. I grabbed his arm, put pressure and elevated it in about a half second flat - didn’t have time to really absorb the visuals of the situation. The CGI blood effect would need to be pretty bad for me to notice anything. Someone with more medical knowledge than I have might be likelier to be taken out of the moment by an inaccurate portrayal.
Huh? Military, police, security, hunters, sport shooters, olympic target shooters- people who have shot guns is a pretty high %.
Yep. you see them much better at night.
There are scads and scads of shooting videos on YT, where someone will show how XXX gun owrks or shot. Some are quite educational. Incidentally, a silencer does not make a gun go “phut”. It is still loud, just not as loud- now if you use special ammo- low velocity (thus lower lethality). Also only hollywood guns make the victim “peckinpah” back six feet in reaction. Mostly they just crumple. So Hollywood lies about silencers and reactions to being shot.
Yeah, the number of revolvers with a silencer in Hollywood movies and TV shows used to be ridiculous.
But wouldn’t that mean that every class at the college started on the hour and only lasted 50 minutes? That sounds like High School.
At the college I went to (and the ones my friends went to, and the one I taught at), schedules were much more flexible.
And they HAD to be: you’d have a class that’s two hours long on Mon, Wed and Fri, but that same class might have another section that ran three hours on Tues and Thurs.
I taught classes that started at 8:30 and ran three hours, sometimes followed by another class that went from 1 to 3:30 or 4. Some semesters, I could sleep in the next day and start at 9:30 or 10…
I personally NEVER taught a class that went less than an hour and a half. We needed more time than that.
School bells would’ve been ridiculous.
ya. Why is that odd?
There were some specialty classes that ran longer, including labs, and some classes met three hours one day a week. But most are an hour. Three credits, three hours, one hour a day MWF.
If you schedule classes at varying times, it makes it hard to fill out a class schedule.
What about Tuesday and Thursday? You can’t have classes at random times but they also don’t all have to be the same length. My college had 50 minute classes for most of MWF except for club hours from 12-2 *on Mon Wed. Most classes on Tues Thurs were 90 minutes except a few that were 50 minutes Tues Thurs Fri at 12 or 1. And of course there were also some once a week 3-4 hour class.
*commuter college with no dorms - nobody was going to hang around for hours after classes were over to be on a team or in a club. So those 2 hours twice a week were when they met, etc.
I don’t notice it in most movies. They are using CGI more and more to add things like muzzle flash and blood that used to be done with practical effects. There is so much of it in the John Wick movies that I couldn’t help but notice it. Now I can’t not notice it.
Let’s also remember that a lot of subjects/classes have both lecture and lab components. 1 hour classes MWF, lab 2 hours on either T/Th. Classes start off the hour as well. Then there are the weird ones that don’t match any schedule known to Man. Don’t get me started on night classes. I have credits from 13 different colleges/universities in 3 different states over 3 decades - none of them had freaking bells!
My college had super early classes at 7 or 8 but they started at 730 or 830 presumably because people would arrive on time that early if it was on the half hour.
That’s a very interesting point. In the movie it certainly appears that the gun is held against Michael Caine’s head. I saw the play on Broadway, and they played it that way, as well. Yet we’ve been saying in this thread that a prop gun loaded with blanks shout emphatically NOT be placed against the head.
The script actually states that
a gun loaded with two real bullets and a blank was placed against Milo Tindle’s head, and that "it was the shock of the gun going off that contributed to Tindle going unconscious – and not being killed. Yet if they actually HAD placed a gun with blanks against the actor’s head, we now know he’d be in peril.
I wonder how many actors playing Tindle on stage were injured by “harmless” blanks, given the lines in the script.
When I was learning how to handle a musket, I saw one fired at night. The tongue of flame that shot out was at least as long as the weapon itself.