In the Romanian film, Police, Adjective, the focus of the plot is on a young police officer who knows a teenager is using hash and is ordered to arrest him for selling the stuff. Reluctant to do so – believing hash use and possession will soon be legal and not wanting to ruin the kid’s life – the bulk of the movie consists of him following the kid around to catch him in the act.
I remember at one point the camera is on him in his office distractedly doing some paperwork, then following him as he gets up, walks down a hallway and around corner or two to a break room where he digs some coins out of his pocket, buys a soda, and returns to his desk to open it.
This was all with no cuts, not even for a change of POV and I was thinking. “Come on!” I’ve not watched a Romanian movie since.
TV characters in general watch relatively little TV (this was particularly true in the 1970s - there’s maybe four episodes of The Brady Bunch which feature the kids watching TV).
An even bigger problem: German soldiers in Egypt in the 30’s !?
that was a British protectorate. A German scientific expedition could have been authorized, but armed soldiers bossing Egyptians around, with an experimental plane and armed vehicles? Not a chance.
That was what the experimental plane was for, of course—bringing in all those soldiers and vehicles. The Germans were decades ahead of everybody else when it came to Stealth technology!
The Germans also had a submarine base in a Greek island, which means that the world Raiders takes place in has Germany in a much stronger position Mediterranean wise than in our actual world.
Maybe Greece allied with Germany during World War 1 leading to its stronger influence in the area?
This has probably been mentioned already because it’s so common… I just saw it on a show yesterday and thought of this thread. On detective / crime shows (whether real or amateur detective), when they ID who the real killer is, the suspect, even before being formally arrested, just totally spills the beans and starts blabbing-- “I had to do it, because blah blah blah blah blah blah…”.
Of course it’s in order to satisfyingly wrap up the episode, but it’s so counter to real life, where 99.9999% of the time an actual person who committed a murder or other serious crime would immediately clam up and lawyer up.
Yeah, but how long does it take to get a confession, and what kind of representation does the perp have?
Most of the murderers I see in shows like Forensic Files confess after being interrogated for hours with no lawyer present, or after long investigations that uncover things they can’t explain.
Huh. Did not know that. But, at least it’s probably after hours of interrogation, like @terentii said, not immediately upon the detective pointing to the bad guy and saying “there’s the murderer”.
Unlikely. Greece was (and rather still is) anti-Turkey. The Ottoman Empire was anti-Russia which is why during WW1 the Ottomans were nominally pro-German and Britain and France were nominally anti-Ottoman (plus rivalry for control of the Middle East).
And the exceptions tend to be horror-comedies that are making a meta commentary about the zombie genre.
Ever notice that vampire movies are almost the exact opposite? Everyone knows about vampires in vampire movies. Stoker’s Dracula will almost certainly be referenced, even in vampire movies that are literally about Dracula. The only exception is actual adaptations of the novel in their original setting.
Well, creatures like vampires have been part of legend for a long time. We didn’t get our modern concept of zombies until Romero’s ‘Night of the Living Dead’ in the late 60s and all the resultant spin-offs and copy cats since then.
If you were transported to a parallel Earth in which an actual attack by reanimated corpses was beginning, but Romero had never made Night of the Living Dead, you’d yell “zombies!” and people would say, “uh, what? Haitian Voodoo slaves? Think I saw an old 30s movie about that once. What’s it got to do with this?”
Somewhere on Twitter recently someone said they wanted a killer clown movie filmed like a zombie movie - in that, in the movie universe, no one had heard of clowns.
