For anyone that works in the industry, I was hoping you could shed some light on this. I have never heard anyone say bye on the phone in the movies and I am wondering why.

i mean, even when i hang up on someone i say goodbye, albeit angrily.

i've heard this argument about movie phone conversations before, and ion't get it.



if anything, the fact that film characters has every phone number they need memorized is a bigger issue to me.

that in movies they hangup WITHOUT saying bye.

I am coming up with nothing.

Also, they don't tip.

But seriously, I think about this everytime I see a phone scene too. I think it just has to do with script economy--"keep the action moving."

Saying bye is so quick though. It doesn't seem to me like it would delay anything but maybe it just doesn't flow. Who knows.

I agree with you. Almost makes me want to be unsympathetic to certain characters when they don't say bye. Impoliteness is a pet peeve of mine, heh.

Pulp Fiction was one of the first movies I remember seeing where people actually went and talked about going to the bathroom.

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Can you imagine a scene where Rambo takes a moment to piss in the jungle?

I actually love that aspect, and don't see the point of realism in that scenario, but it's always funny to me how the characters do a microsecond of listening between responses, whether it's a phone call about the pilot not being picked up, or someone dying, or anything else.

Sometimes the amount of time it takes for a visitor to get from the front of the building to Jerry's 5th floor apartment is impossible, unless the elevator moves at rocket speed and was sitting there waiting on the 1st floor. And I think there was at least one episode where they talked about his elevator being slow. I think Elaine commented on it.

So, yeah.


>I actually love that aspect, and don't see the point of
>realism in that scenario, but it's always funny to me how the
>characters do a microsecond of listening between responses,
>whether it's a phone call about the pilot not being picked up,
>or someone dying, or anything else.

when a couple enters an apartment while already making out, they very rarely close the door behind them, let alone lock it.

I always notice this, and wonder if its foreshadowing for something that will happen, but it never does. They must all have very trustworthy neighbors.


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Now that I think about it, I rarely see people close or lock the door. Unless it's a teen horror movie.

>when a couple enters an apartment while already making out,
>they very rarely close the door behind them, let alone lock
>it.
>
>I always notice this, and wonder if its foreshadowing for
>something that will happen, but it never does. They must all
>have very trustworthy neighbors.

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In real life the average caller woulda BEEN hung up.

They let the shit ring 1,000 times in movies and on TV.

I noticed that too. Also, I noticed that a lot of people in movies still have a home line. I know 1 or 2 people at most with a home line these days.

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when two men greet each other in a formal setting, they always just nod and say the other person's first name (man 1: "jeff" *handshake + nod* man 2: "steven" *handshake + nod*)

i've never seen that happen in real life.

Setting bad examples for teh young people!

otherwise it would have been a short film called 'Hooked Up'

that's very rarely the case in Hollywood.

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but yeah, i never noticed it in movies

Someone pointed out the no goodbye thing to me easily 20 years ago and I have been paying attention looking for it and I have never seen it done. I am convinced there is a technical reason why.



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In the middle of my big monologue too. I couldn't just ignore it. The sneezer felt bad.

That must have been quite the scene. Did you enjoy it? I once saw a performance of Hamlet where the actor playing Hamlet, who was wearing a tight skin outfit got an erection during the show. Interestingly enough, he picked up on it and somehow worked it into the script itself where you let it go and continued on with the show.

if somebody gets hung up on, it always goes straight to the dialtone, when in real life that shit takes 10-15 seconds.