I suppose if Hollywood filmed most jobs as they actually are they would be unwatchably boring.
Take Wolf of Wall Street for example. I actually met the real life FBI agent who took down Joran Belfort at a professional event. By his own admission he looks absolutely nothing like Kyle Chandler, the actor who played him. In fact, personality-size I think it was a huge miss for Scorsese to not have cast Joe Pesci in that role. And one thing the film doesn’t capture is the years of tedious investigative work and dealing with multiple administrations who don’t really have a priority going after these sort of white collar crimes.
So you always end up with these “cautionary tales” that show 2 hours of partying and girls and giant Hamptons houses and by the way don’t do drugs and securities fraud kids!
Hah, over the weekend we watched a Kevin Hart movie literally titled 72 Hours. You are almost perfectly describing the plot of the movie:
Hart’s character is an ad exec who has lost touch with the younger generation since he’s at the ancient age of 40. His entire career is suddenly dependent on landing a vodka brand client.
He asks his boss for 72 hours to come up with an ad pitch that will land the client. His harebrained scheme is that he accidentally got added to a group text for some 20-somethings planning a bachelor party weekend. He decides to attend and bankroll the party to find out how partying kids in their 20s act and think these days. Hijinks ensue, while his girlfriend / fiancee gets fed up and says she’s leaving him.
Spoiler blur for anybody who wants to actually watch this: He runs to his girlfriend and begs her not to leave him, says he will change, and he does quit / leave his job, though his plan is to start a new agency. Yeah, he’s sure to not neglect his girlfriend while starting a new ad agency!
I have to point out how they are “TV broke” not “broke” broke.
TV broke people have no job or a minimum wage service job with $5 to their name and live in a cramped Manhattan apartment and yet still have funds to pursue various hairbrained schemes at clubs and restaurants and other expensive NYC venues
Actual broke people sit around and don’t do shit because they can’t pay for anything.
Not “almost”. You have a keen eye for Kevin Hart movies. I just watched it as well and was literally describing the plot of the movie because it in true Netflix film fashion, it captures all the main beats of any film in the genre.
But it could have literally applied to almost any romcom with Adam Sandler, Jim Carey, any Wilson brother, Vince Vaughn, Ben Affleck or Matt Damon, or Will Smith, or Kevin Smith, or Kevin James. You name it.
There’s always a sales pitch or a project or a court case or getting some rock star to the Greek theater in LA or some damn thing that is going to make or break his career.
It’s always going to run up against some school project or recital or camping trip or poker tournament or best friend’s bachelor party or one last chance to get back together with his ex.
And at the end he’s going to blow off the case or promotion or whatever to show up as the movers are wrapping up or maybe chase her down at the airport.
It’ll be ok though because there will be a scene in the closing credits where he has his new company with his client and best friends that aligns perfectly with his wife’s new job and kids shit!
Yeah, I thought you probably saw it. I almost said “oh, you watched the same movie we did”. Netflix has gotten pretty egregious about making movie plots by algorithm. They’ll probably be using AI to write their original movie scripts pretty soon (if they don’t already).
Oh yeah, the person (usually a woman, but men too) are walking down the street and are being followed- so they walk faster- into dark deserted areas, instead on into a shop or something.
That’s it alright. There’s the companion piece of a running person being chased by a car, but continues to run in a straight line instead of ducking into a place a vehicle cannot follow. All graphically demonstrated by numerous camera angles and cuts that show the speeding vehicle closing the distance with the hapless runner s-l-o-w-l-y.
S-l-o-w-l-y and inconsistently. Whether running or driving after a victim, one must vary your speed so that the distance between you varies quite a bit from shot to shot.
In a short sprint, few humans can outrun a relatively fast dog (sure, some dogs are not very fast). But a human can outrun many animals in the long distance. Horses are a maybe, however- it has been done, but not commonly.
This is kind of an obscure one, but in very many movies set in New York City, there will be a scene involving an alley. A mugging takes place in an alley, or a chase scene will pass through or end up in an alley, or someone sneaks into a building via an alley. From watching movies, you get the idea that there are alleys practically everywhere. Many people who have never spent time in NYC (like me) are surprised to learn that in reality, there are only a handful of alleys in the whole city.
And there’s one alley in SF (in Chinatown, I had to walk down it to get to my kid’s apartment) that I immediately recognized as the other “half of the alleys I’ve seen on TV!”.
Alleys are empty spaces that waste valuable real estate. Early in the planning of Manhattan it was determined to specifically leave out alleys to optimize building space.
The most visited alley is Shubert Alley. It could never be mistaken for a dingy dark crime location. It’s a pedestrian walkway between 44th and 45th streets in the theater district. One interesting thing about Shubert Alley is its privately owned but accessible by the public. In order to protect themselves from adverse possession the owners close the alley once a year.
