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I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

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[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 56 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There’s a trillion ones around unrealism, so I may as well pick something that would be more enjoyable if fixed.

Professional chatter. Let’s say a team of 30 scientists have been trying to communicate with a dimensional portal for 5 years. They wouldn’t be using speech like “Identity verified. Doctor Faris, you are clear to approach the anomaly.” Often, they’d have extremely abbreviated lingo for everything they need to express that happens on a daily basis, and otherwise are chatting about other stuff.

“Ok, approach endorsed. Bob wasn’t so chatty yesterday from what I heard, we’ll just aim for 2 logic points for this cycle.”
“Ryan was suggesting we spread the cycles. Bob has to sleep sometime.”
“Yeah, 90% of us would rather listen to Ryan than Mick, but Mick signs the checks.”

So the only actual order comes from some obscure phrase like “Approach endorsed”, which they may only say verbatim for safety reasons. The rest is just workplace banter about how best to accomplish their task, none of it being essential. EDIT: And, to make clear, in the above quote, Bob is the portal/anomaly.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 13 points 3 weeks ago

As a parallel, I seem to recall that the surgery banter in MASH is actually pretty realistic.

[-] coffee_with_cream@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

Nurse, can you close for me? No? Well, how about you open for me?

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

In Robocop when Murphy gets shot to pieces and wheeled into the ER, Verhoeven got real ER doctors to play the scene, so their chatter is very realistic and very nonchalant as they work on a guy that they know full-well is a lost cause.

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"You're about two kilometers outside the anomaly."

"Chuck."

"I'm sorry, what?"

"The anomaly. I named the anomaly 'Chuck'."

"NEVER name the anomalies. That's how you get hurt."

Dynamo Episode 5

[-] solstice@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Ever seen Primer? Equal and opposite to that, easily the most confusing movie I've ever seen and they don't spoon feed you anything, lol

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

what the heck is a dimensional portal in your real world example

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

We’re talking about TV shows and movies.

There’s normally one unrealistic conceit, eg aliens existing, that the audience believes. But then, the regular conceits like “The scientists studying the aliens speak like a bunch of robots and act like total idiots” become harder to believe.

[-] Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This is what makes Arrival so good. They don't want the best person for the job because she insists on being involved, they give the aliens nicknames immediately and everything goes to shit at the first excuse to start a war.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh okay! And I see your edit that Bob is the portal, yeah I did not pick up on that one from the script alone. Great dialog on second pass though! Very believable, Tarantino levels of mundane.

[-] ours@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Your company doesn't have a portal to hell in the basement?

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 14 points 3 weeks ago

That’s usually the front door

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 6 points 3 weeks ago
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