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HOLLYWOOD MALARKE

OHMSS69OHMSS69
edited August 2013 in General Movies & TV Posts: 2,341
We see a lot of stuff out of Hollywood on both the big screen and the small screen. However after decades of motion pictures and television there are some falsehoods that have come to be accepted as fact. Some of my favorites of how Hollywood has twisted "facts."
The Code of the West Good guys wear white hats, never shoot a man in the back. These formuliac elements have been accepted by the general public but there was no such thing as a "code of the West". Gunmen constantly shot unarmed people and even in the back (hell, they figured he couldn't shoot back at you ".
The drive by shootings we see in America today and have seen since the 1920's originated in the West. (without cars of course)

Man turns into a wolf during the full moon. This is not part of traditional werewolf lore. A werewolf could change at any time it bloody well choose. Somehow Hollywood took the part about full moon after 1941's "The Wolfman" and it has been accepted as fact by the general public.

Dracula turns into a bat The bat has been overplayed when in real lore, the vampire can take the form of any animal mostly a bat, wolf or rat. Maybe the bat was seen as scarier and the movies have run with that one. Also according to lore a silver bullet will kill a vampire as readily as a werewolf.

Man versus Dinosaur In many films like "One Million years B.C." "Caveman" and even "The Flintstones" and comic books we see cavemen battling dinos. In actuallity dinos were long gone (like 60 million years) before man appeared on the planet.

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  • BustedNrevealedBustedNrevealed
    Posts: 24
    Contrary to many movies homeless people are NOT honorable.. they are actually very dangerous and not to be trusted.
  • boldfingerboldfinger
    Posts: 5,767
    I´m not sure where @BustedNrevealed intends to take this thread, but I must admit the full moon thing with the werewolves was quite ingenious. If I were 1940s Hollywood I´d have stuck to it too. Such a temporal menace as the full moon is a great tool for creating tension. Like when I was a kid and the bigger kids told me that at midnight the ghosts come out. Stupid, but effective.
  • Matt007Matt007
    Posts: 1,314
    English actors/people are always the bad guy.
  • VijayGaloreVijayGalore
    edited August 2013 Posts: 78
    Anyone with a mind can tell when a gun's unloaded, that means you Bond.

    And Dryden from Modern Day Casino Royale.
  • WillyGaloreWillyGalore
    Posts: 6,396
    BustedNrevealed wrote:
    Contrary to many movies homeless people are NOT honorable.. they are actually very dangerous and not to be trusted.

    IFM!
  • VijayGaloreVijayGalore
    Posts: 78
    What does IFM supposed to mean?
  • boldfingerboldfinger
    edited August 2013 Posts: 5,767
    VijayGalore wrote:
    What does IFM supposed to mean?
    Ignore, flag, move on. Policy to avoid feeding spammers.

  • VijayGaloreVijayGalore
    Posts: 78
    Nearby Explosions turn your insides to mush so? Don't bother trying to look cool near them.
  • Dr_YesDr_Yes
    Posts: 169
    VijayGalore wrote:
    Nearby Explosions turn your insides to mush so? Don't bother trying to look cool near them.

    Nor will you be able to outrun an expanding fireball, not even if you're riding a motorcycle.
  • boldfingerboldfinger
    edited August 2013 Posts: 5,767
    Any car that crashes turns into a big explosion. It is actually quite amusing to see thos pop science tv shows were the try to explode a car and it just won´t explode. I think the only way to explode an average car would be to almost drain the tank, then throw the car down a steep incline, so it can turn over many times and thus mix fumes with Oxygen, and then put some igniter right into the tank. Sadly, the explosion won´t be as gorgeous as in any film, so I stick with my dvds ;-).



    A hole in the fuselage will suck everything and anybody out of the plane.It´s amazing how Hollywood holds on to the old Goldfinger trick, even after so many tv shows tested it, so that every 10-year-old kid must know by now that it just doesn´t happen.
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