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Film Clichés
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· b · c1
c2 cars · d
· e · f ·
h · i · k
· l · m ·
n · p1 p2
· r · s1
s2 · t ·
v · w war
weapons
SCHOOL
• If you're a high school student in a film, you will
always get one of the preferable eye-level lockers.
• In all high school or college classrooms, the teacher or professor
will always be interrupted in mid-sentence by the end-of-class bell.
• In every school, there is at least one nerd or wimp that is shoved
into lockers that are big enough to hold them.
• High Schools are always either in the middle of a city or a car ride
away from the beach.
SEX
• All beds have a special L-shaped top sheet, which reaches
up to armpit level on women but only to waist level on men.
• No-one ever needs a kleenex after sex.
• If you're a woman in a film and have just finished a steamy lovemaking
session, make sure to lay back and pull the sheets up to your neck,
just like in real life.
• All women moan during sex, but none sweat.
• Women (and men less often) either make love with their underclothes
on or have put them back on in the immediate aftermath.
• Two total strangers, upon falling into bed together, will always reach
an incredibly intense, mutual, and simultaneous orgasm on the
first try.
SHOPPING
• When bringing home bags of groceries in a film, it's
required that you spill at least one bagful on the kitchen floor.
• Bags of groceries are never heavy.
• Whenever anyone in a movie goes shopping, they always come back with
stuff sticking out of the top of the shopping bag, usually carrot tops
and French bread.
• Corollary: every shopping bag contains at least one baguette (loaf
of french bread).
SIGNALS
• If the tapping sound or flashing light represents morse
code, there's always someone around that can interpret the message.
• When Morse Code is used, the interpreter will call out words as they
are being sent, rather than letters. Furthermore, a single word is represented
by a few "beeps", and all words are sent at the same rate, no matter
how long the word is. Example:
beep-beep-be-beep...
"Help..."
be-be-beep beep...
"Us..."
beep-be-be-beep beep...
"We're..."
beep beep-be-beep...
"Surrounded..."
be-beep beep beep...
"Send..."
be-be-be-beep beep...
"Reinforcements..."
beep be-beep beep...
"Hurry..."
etc.
• A message in Morse Code will start several seconds before someone
actually interprets it; however, no information is lost, as the message
actually begins when the interpreter starts to read it.
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