XPost: rec.puzzles, alt.usage.english   
   From: occam@nowhere.nix   
      
   On 12/04/2024 10:50, Aidan Kehoe wrote:   
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   > Sure. There is a long list of things that for various reasons happen much   
   more   
   > often in televised and film drama. Over-explication, the US winning and   
   > achieving things completely ahistorically (see the recent Queen’s Gambit   
   > Netflix series for this; see also a film about twenty years ago regarding the   
   > Enigma codebreakers.) Movies are not particularly representative of real   
   life.   
      
   Especially when made by Hollywood.  I'm waiting for the film where US   
   won the war in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan. (Allow for 20 years for   
   the memory to fade.)   
      
   > in a movie, a guy is on the phone,  and the person (on the other end)   
   > (often a woman)  hangs up I've always felt that this happens 100+ 	   
   > times more often in movies than in real life...   
      
   Don't forget, in the movie the man also looks at the handset after the   
   hang-up, and sneers.   
      
   There is a brilliant Netflix documentary where all these movie clichés   
   are documented.  One that sticks in mind: "Why do women always run away   
   from danger in high-heels"?   
      
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