Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Shit I'm tired of

In a TV show or movie, when someone is standing or walking in the street and is suddenly hit by a car, or even better, a bus which comes seemingly out of nowhere. Most recently I've seen this on the new Terminator series...twice in two episodes. And just off the top of my head I remember pretty much the same thing from Final Destination, Lost, Daybreak, and The Black Donnelys. I guess the reason writers like this kind of thing is that it's so sudden and unexpected for the viewer. The flaw, however, is that the person who is hit by the bus should be able to see all that stuff that is off camera for the viewer.

This also extends to the person driving a car, with the camera looking at them from the passenger seat, when they're suddenly blindsided by a car slamming into the driver's side door which also seems to be quite popular these days.

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6 comments:

michelline said...

The car thing is more common in reality, I think. People get distracted, or the car that rams the other one runs the light. But you're right about the bus thing. The person stepping into the street would hear the roaring of the bus barreling down the street even if they didn't see it.

Toast said...

On the one hand, I agree with John that you should be sufficiently aware of your surroundings that being hit by a vehicle "out of nowhere" is next to impossible. On the other hand, people do get run over all the time. I think the only explanation is that a lot more people are idiots than we think. Which is saying a lot, I know.

John Howard said...

People do get run over all the time, and like Chris said, people get distracted. But that's not what happens in the scenes I'm talking about. Usually the only thing seemingly preventing the person from seeing the vehicle coming is that it's off camera.

michelline said...

In Final Destination, didn't the victim back into the street without looking? Who does that?

You're right, Toast, that pedestrians do get hit all the time, but the bus out of nowhere seesm to be overly dramatic.

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