- Fridges are not just fridges. Unlike in real lives where they have only one task – to keep food chilled – in movies fridges play a significant role. They reveal that:
a) a character lives alone, and has either an empty fridge or a fridge wild with moldy groceries
b) a character either eats tons of junk food, or is obsessed with super healthy food
c) a character is a psychopath who keeps suspicious packets of body parts inside
Nobody keeps normal food in a refrigerator.
- Rain in movies is perfectly timed. It always comes at the most emotional or the most exciting moment, exactly when the director needs it. If it has been raining throughout the whole movie, you can expect the scorching sun at the end. Can you imagine this scene happening on a dry, sunny afternoon?
- Edit: Rain in The Shawshank Redemption both creates the atmosphere, and plays an important role in Andy’s escape. It was used brilliantly.
- People often keep their cars unlocked, or keep the keys in the most obvious storage compartment.
- In at least 50% of cases when a character opens a car trunk, they’ll put in or take out something related to a crime.
- When someone walks into a bank, there is a big chance the bank will be robbed. Unless a character doesn’t take a bag full of money out of the bank, he/she will be inside the bank during a robbery. And if it is a good-looking girl, she’ll be taken as a hostage.
- When talking about robberies, bank managers will be hit or shot the moment they manage to crack the safe.
- Families in movies have a lavish breakfast together, as if no one has to go work or school. Only after they have finished, they casually take their bags and leave the house.
- Dinners are always the time when big family secrets come out. Or, they are very awkward. Either way, meals are not about food.
- Every time the police stops a car, you know that something will happen. The officers will either be racist douchebags who will arrest someone for no reason, or they will fail to notice the criminal act taking place right in front of them.
- When a couple adopts a child, the child is always an obnoxious brat at first.
- When a nanny meets a child for the first time, the child will either hide or try to bite her.
- In war movies, when a soldier gets hit in the helmet, there is a good chance he’ll take it off to look at the hole. A few seconds later, what a coincidence… he gets shot again, in the same place, but now without his helmet on.
- When people get sacked, they will always, I repeat ALWAYS, pack their personal belongings in one of these boxes.
Thanks for asking.