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ALL ABOUT CINEMA AND FILMS 3.
MOVIE CLICHÉS
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If a flying airplane/helicopter runs out of fuel and crashes, it still explodes as if the tank were full.
There is always a pilot, or a doctor, or an armed off-duty police officer on board of an airplane.
Bars in movies don’t need to make money. Anytime you see a scene in a bar, the bar nowhere near as busy as it needs to be in order to stay in business. The bartender always has time for long conversations with the patrons, to wash glasses, or to flip bottles in the air just for fun.
If you are an underage drinker in a horror film, you will die horribly, and probably first.
Aliens usually speak English and have same colloquialisms: planet.
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Whenever someone looks through the binoculars, you see two joined circles instead of one.
At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.
Newborn babies can babble, crawl, and hold their heads steady.
Movie people can get cabs instantly, unless they are in danger, whereupon no cab can be found.
Movie characters driving in the city will get to park wherever they like when they get to their destination.
Movie characters never make typing mistakes.
Thunder and lightning always happen at the same time.
All movie mothers will prepare a breakfast, usually consisting of scrambled eggs, bacon, etc. Dad and the kids will invariably arrive at the table 30 seconds before Dad has to leave for the office and the kids have to catch the school bus. Each will have time only for a sip of coffee/juice and/or one bite of toast. There must be enough food left over in these homes to feed an emerging nation!
The movie hero is (almost) always divorced, but he still has some contact with his ex-wife who tells him that she could not stay married to him because she loves him too much.
The hero lives in New York City working at some okay, but not particularly high-paying job, and yet he or she has a roomy apartment filled with nice stuff, generally with a good view, and sometimes a nice, romantic rooftop to go to.
Any apartment in Paris will have a view of the Eiffel Tower.
Even when depicted as foreigners (including aliens from outer space) all actors speak and understand a common language (usually English) unless the film’s plot depends on a language barrier.
Most babies are born clean, with perfectly shaped heads and dry hair.
GLOSSARY
| armed |
felfegyverzett |
| bartender |
csapos/pultos |
| binoculars |
távcs? |
| cab |
taxi |
| colloquialism |
hétköznapi szófordulat |
| fuel |
üzemanyag |
| identical twins |
egypetéjú ikrek |
| instantly |
azonnal |
| invariably |
mindig, változatlanul |
| language barrier |
nyelvi korlát |
| not particularly |
nem különösebben |
| off-duty police officer |
rend?r, aki nincs szolgálatban |
| patorn |
törzsvendég |
| to babble |
gagyog |
| to be born evil |
gonosznak születni |
| to crawl |
csúszni, mászni |
| to depend on sth |
függ vmit?l |
| to flip bottles in the air |
megpörgeti az üvegeket a leveg?ben |
| to hold sth steady |
magabiztosan tart |
| to run out of sth |
kifogy valamb?l |
| underage drinker |
kiskorú alkoholfogyasztó |
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