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Sep 18, 2020 - 8:08 PM
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Mr. Jack
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This was bugging me the other day. Characters who stop to sacrifice themselves, because if they go with the fleeing hero or group they say they'll slow them down. But their actual stopping and explaining why they're making the sacrifice takes longer than if they actually just all kept running off. It's infuriating. They cause their own needless death. Just keep going.
^ This, so much. There's always a teary-eyed separation with the hero telling whoever he's trying to sacrifice themselves for to "Just keep going, don't look back...!", and the other person being all, "No, it doesn't have to be like this, just come with me/us...!", and all this shit, and it takes FOREVER. If you have time to deliver this little speech, you could have just gotten away. The only time I allow moments like this is if the decision is quick, surgical, and wordless, maybe done with a meaningful glance, and it's very obvious there's no chance of the hero saving themselves. And if the hero shows up later to reveal they miraculously survived, I hate these scenes even MORE. Shameless manipulation of the audiences' emotions only to have said "sacrifice" rendered utterly meaningless. If the hero is gonna sacrifice themselves for the "greater good", then they actually have to DIE.
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Movies in which a writer character can't just be a fairly minor one; no, he has to be a Pulitzer Prize winner. Or a film director character or an actress character aren't just fairly prestigious but have to be Oscar winners! (But often these said characters are not living the kind of lives someone that famous would be in rl.)
On a similar note, the young Paul Newman as the most unlikely Nobel Prize winner for Literature ever. (Granted THE PRIZE is meant to be tongue-in-cheek...)
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This was bugging me the other day. Characters who stop to sacrifice themselves, because if they go with the fleeing hero or group they say they'll slow them down. But their actual stopping and explaining why they're making the sacrifice takes longer than if they actually just all kept running off. It's infuriating. They cause their own needless death. Just keep going.
This. Good spot
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The way barrels and containers that actors lift or move are clearly empty but they are exaggerrating the strain to make it seem heavy. Its almost clown-like mime.
Seen this a lot in 50s westerns especially. I understand they dont want a lead actor to put their back out but i think id insist on some weight just to replicate heavy.
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