Questions tagged [realism]
The general attempt to depict things accurately in films and tv shows.
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Is it true that police only do an outline of a body with chalk if that person is alive and taken to hospital?
Season 1, Ep 3, Hannibal, Abigail returns home after waking up from her coma and sees the word "cannibals" painted on their garage door.
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Does Nick pay Tanner his retainer fee in the end of Gone Girl?
In the movie, Gone Girl, Nick hires a lawyer from New York, Tanner, whose legal retainer is 100k.
I searched a bit on the internet, a legal retainer is an upfront fee that you pay for in order to ...
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Advanced grifting techniques
Community season 6 episode 9: Grifting 101
Jeff Winger says:
How was grifting class? Did you teach some advanced techniques; only you could understand? The Brown Betty, The Texas Well Baby, The ...
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Colonizing Mars with Crops
In The Martian, after Mark Watney reestablishes contact with Earth, he says this:
I’ve gotten e-mail from rock stars, athletes, actors and actresses,
and even the President.
One of them was from my ...
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Is kelp tape real?
In season 2 episode 7 of Archer, Rona Thorne suggests using a kelp tape cleansing technique. I was able to find some reference to kelp as a cleanser on the Google, but nothing mentioning 'tape' ...
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Why was this sailor painting a Swastika on a US Destroyer?
In the WWII movie Greyhound (2020), at about 25:00 we can see a sailor painting a Swastika symbol on the ship. This happens right after they have sunk a Nazi U-Boat.
Why was this sailor painting a ...
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How realistic is the bear attack in Walker: Texas Ranger?
In the episode "The Bachelor Party" there is a bear that attacks the two campers who are fishing, then goes after the rangers. How realistic is that in real life and what would make a bear ...
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Why doesn't the bomb cause radiation poisoning to Gotham City?
The ending to me makes no sense.
Batman put his plane on auto pilot that was carrying the bomb away from the city, but they should be affected for many years to come just like Hiroshima.
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What would the penalty for this be? [closed]
In the beginning of Scarface, when he realizes the Miami authorities have figured out he did time in Cuba, Tony says he was imprisoned for "buying dollars"- someone on Movie Mistakes told me ...
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Reason for the uncommon German license plates in "Hanna"
Being German myself, I've noticed that the German license plates in Hanna have quite a strange format, it's something like
B-123-ABC
whereas the common format is
B-AB 1234
Where the first part (...
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In 1917, would a British Army Colonel truly have told a Lance Corporal to "fuck off"?
At 2:07 of this clip from the 2019 movie 1917, Colonel MacKenzie (of the Second Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment), whose "decorations indicate he's a veteran of the Boer War as well", ...
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Why weren't Hitler's actual facial features used in The Man in the High Castle?
I've started watching The Man in the High Castle (2015) and became quite impressed with the overall idea and presentation of the post-WWII alternative reality. It looked like the producers chose to ...
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Is this rifle, that can pivot 90° around corners, real?
I don't know if this is a rifle or SMG. 0:11.
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What explains the changes to history other than the oblivion of the Beatles?
In the Yesterday Movie, a miracle somehow consigns the Beatles to oblivion. But it also produces several other changes that are mentioned in the movie without much explanation. Cigarette smoking seems ...
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Lost: Can People Use Stadiums for Exercise?
In Lost seasons 1 and 2, Jack Shepherd (and later Desmond) are seen running the steps in a stadium.
One could assume this is either a university or local city stadium of some sort. Usually those are ...
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If Japan won WWII, why would they write from right to left and in kyujitai form?
Can someone please expound the following comment based on the screenshot below? I don't speak Japanese, so please forgive my benightedness. How does Japan's imaginary winning World War II affect ...
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How realistic is Lone Survivor when a soldier pulls a gun on a friendly pilot?
In a scene from Lone Survivor shortly after
a soldier on the second helicopter pulls a gun on his own pilot, telling him to land despite the area clearly being a hot landing zone with a lot of gun ...
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Do US private schools ask Chinese students to get referral letters from the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association to join them? [closed]
In Ip Man 4, the principal of an American private school asks Ip Man to get
references from the CCBA so his son can be considered for enrollment in the school.
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Can there be sunlight in Australia and Texas at the same time?
In the third season of The Leftovers, episode 3, there is a scene where Kevin Garvey, Sr. calls Matt Jamison from a pay phone outside of Melbourne, AU. Matt is in Miracle, TX, however both locations ...
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What's the meaning of the performance of I Will Survive at the end of Man On The Moon?
Man On The Moon is the story of the career of Andy Kaufman.
One of the personas that Andy sometimes adopted was Tony Clifton, an obnoxious and terrible lounge singer. Tony is an alter-ego for Andy. In ...
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Were the pamphlets shown in the opening scene really published/circulated?
In the opening scene of Dunkirk, while walking through the city the soldiers came across lot of pamphlets/fliers. It had a picture depicting the perimeter which Germans had formed in the sea to ...
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Why were mouse holes often represented in cartoons and movies like this?
I was recollecting on some old Tom & Jerry cartoons and began to wonder why mouse holes were often represented like the picture below.
Did it just have to do with the cartoonist trying to ...
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In The Politician season 2 - is the controversial method for deciding an outcome real?
In season 2 of The Politician, the vote ends in a draw. Patton and Deedee are told that they can decide the outcome with a coin flip (or a similar method).
Is this actually the way it would be decided?...
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Is total television air time takeover feasible?
We've all seen the trope from films, TV series, books, and so forth about the evil villain (or dark hero in the case of V for Vendetta) who manages to take over all TV network broadcasts (cable/...
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How possible is it to rip someone's eye out of its socket?
So this question may seem somewhat obvious, but I was watching Deadwood and during one of the most brutal fight scenes I've seen in a while, Dan Dority rips Captain Joe Turner's eyeball out of its ...
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Does the 3D sculpting machine in Mission Impossible III exist?
In Mission Impossible III at 48 minutes in there is a scene in which they make one of the signature Mission Impossible latex face masks using a portable sculpting machine to create the pattern. Does ...
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In Rocky IV how does the Creed vs Drago fight go on?
I know it is a movie. But I was a fighter just years after Rocky IV was made. My kids were watching tonight and ask me about the fight and have me pause the movie.
Four different times during the ...
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When shooting laser cannons etc. from spaceships, why do advanced beings miss their targets?
In many movies and TV series (Star Wars, Star Trek, etc.), we see space battles in which spaceships miss their targets. I can't understand how such advanced beings can simply "miss", but perhaps ...
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What authority did the Department of Defense have to seize Iron Man's suits?
A major plot element of Iron Man 2 is that the Department of Defense (presumably) is trying to seize his Iron Man suits, one of which they get their hands on via Colonel James Rhodes. However, the ...
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Is the electric track the tour vehicles follow on in Jurassic Park actually possible?
Based on the image above and examination while viewing Jurassic Park, it appears there is no physical connection between truck and track (though there may be).
Is the proposed method of moving the ...
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Why is everyone so focused on the black box in LOST?
Ok maybe not everyone, but in two examples after the crash of Oceanic flight 815 we see survivors claiming that the rescue planes will find them and the reason the give is "the plane had a black box". ...
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What conditions and requirements are needed to film sex scenes safely?
I have seen numerous movies with sex scenes:
Friends with Benefits is one, No Strings attached (insertion is not filmed here) and several others where the intercourse is actually on camera (the ...
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Does the sound of a gun fired in a large room actually take time to "die", as told in "Prison Break"?
In Prison Break SE1E5 "English, Fitz or Percy", Attorneys Veronica Donovan and Nick Savrinn bring a video tape of a murder, in where the suspect is seen on tape shooting another man with a gun in an ...
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What is the name of this medical practice?
In the movie The VVitch, Caleb returns to his family after being seduced by a witch.
Then he receives a cut into his right temple to allow bloodletting, what is the name of this medical practice?
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Is it really possible to create a mind palace?
In Sherlock the BBC TV series the protagonist Sherlock and the villain Magnussen are able to recall information from their mind similar to searching for a file in Windows.
Is this really possible?
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What does this exercise do in the movie "The Fighter"? Is it realistic?
In the movie The Fighter,
Micky is seen drilling into a bucket of rice with his fist. I have seen speeding ball exercise, rope jumping, running, but this is the first time and only time I have seen a ...
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Is it really possible to cause military-grade explosives to explode with a gun shot?
At the end of Suicide Squad:
According to IMDB Goof's, it states,
Military-grade explosives do not explode when shot at; the (sic) require a blasting cap to be set off. This is a safety feature of ...
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How realistic was Gus Fring's demise scene?
I have always wondered about this one scene in Breaking Bad where Hector blows up the hospital and then we see Gustavo Fring walking out of the room while fixing his tie. It is then revealed that half ...
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How realistic is the scene where Robocop bends barrel of a gun being held by a man?
There is a quite famous scene in the original movie where Robocop comes up to a guy, grabs barrel of his automatic gun and bends it downwards, while the guy continues holding the gun in shock. Isn't ...
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Is this "gun stealing technique" realistic?
In the movie The Equalizer (2014) the protagonist manages to steal the gun a bad guy is pointing at him with a cool sleight of hand.
Does this move make any sense (is it a known technique?) or in ...
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Scientific accuracy of Jurassic Park's premise?
I was just watching a documentary about dinosaurs and this question came to my mind. In Jurassic Park, the whole story is based on the premise that dinosaurs were recreated using the blood found in an ...
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How did Utah and Bodhi survive 800 meter waterfall drop?
In the movie Point Break (2015), how could the two men survive near 800 meter drop from Venezuela's Angel Falls?
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What is the significance of this song in 1917?
In the World War 1 movie 1917, when Lance Corporal Schofield washes ashore the river, he hears a person singing a song. He then advances towards the voice and finds a number of soldiers sitting around ...
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How accurately is the vision of an elephant depicted in the movie Dumbo 2019?
This is a PoV [Point of View] shot, during Dumbo's initial flight round the Medici Circus.
How realistic is this impression of what an elephant might see?
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Uri Based on Real story?
As per the movie prologue, Uri: The surgical strike is based on a real story,
but how many incidents of the movie are real and do they have the real connection?
Let's say certain events of the movie ...
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Does the FBI keep track of people's library records?
In the movie Se7en, the detectives get the records of people who have read certain kinds of books (like nuclear weapons etc.). So that they can narrow down their list of suspects/can find them.
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Is it realistic to build a well in the basement?
In the movie, The Silence of the Lambs, Buffalo Bill imprisons his victims in a well located under the house he lives in. That well could have been there before Buffalo Bill starts living in there.
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How accurate is IP Man's story?
Recently I watched the Ip Man film series. The 4th one specially got me thinking.
How accurate could the story be?
I am thinking, since it's a Chinese movie, perhaps they have exaggerated a little ...
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How realistic are the drone live feed in Homeland
I'm currently watching Homeland season 4, a TV show taking place in Pakistan. The U.S. intelligence services and army forces make heavy use of drone imagery in the series, with huge consequences on ...
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How accurate is this computer hardware in the movie Wall Street?
In the movie Wall Street, there are two monitors that look like some kind of computers with funny looking keypads. What are they? Did they really use this kind of equipment back then?
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