hero cops or swat or whatever
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Egg Born Son
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The good guys aren't always cops or shooting people up to arrive at the 'storming the building' scene. Sometimes they just smash a lot of cars... (Blues Brothers)
No I mean....
So you have the hero guy, which is just a regular housekeeping guy but during the movie becomes a real hero.
At the end of the movie he is capable to kill 3646563747 bad guys alone on his own without any help....
Then when he has rescued his wife and exits the building, while actually everything is arranged and solutioned...
You got the swat teams guy waiting them up to "rescue' them and to enter the building in a typical hollywood blockbuster movie style
But actually all the bad guys are dead already.....so there is no need to enter the building in a 'we are the heros' way. But still they, the swats, enter the building as if they're entering the vietnam war and have to fight against 465744647464747 ennemies, while there's nobody left...but still they enter with that typical 'go go go go go go go go go go go' shouted 36454736736345874464 times
I hope it s clear now what i mean.....it s hard to explain..... It s something typical american....
So you have the hero guy, which is just a regular housekeeping guy but during the movie becomes a real hero.
At the end of the movie he is capable to kill 3646563747 bad guys alone on his own without any help....
Then when he has rescued his wife and exits the building, while actually everything is arranged and solutioned...
You got the swat teams guy waiting them up to "rescue' them and to enter the building in a typical hollywood blockbuster movie style
But actually all the bad guys are dead already.....so there is no need to enter the building in a 'we are the heros' way. But still they, the swats, enter the building as if they're entering the vietnam war and have to fight against 465744647464747 ennemies, while there's nobody left...but still they enter with that typical 'go go go go go go go go go go go' shouted 36454736736345874464 times
I hope it s clear now what i mean.....it s hard to explain..... It s something typical american....
Andrius Simutis
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You're trying to rationalize the hero fantasy as if it could play out in real life? That's like trying to apply the laws of physics to superheroes or cartoons.
If you look at it from a psychological point of view it makes more sense. People don't want to feel powerless in the face of a mortal challenge even though that is by far much more common. People want to feel like they could rise above any fear and completely triumph.
If you look at it from a psychological point of view it makes more sense. People don't want to feel powerless in the face of a mortal challenge even though that is by far much more common. People want to feel like they could rise above any fear and completely triumph.
David W. Jones
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My wife asks questions like this all the time. My reply… Because it's in the script!
j1clark@ucsd.edu
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How does it come that in typical Hollywood movies, when one guy has been able to shoot 36463836733 bad guys, there are always 264746574674464736436573647 police or swat guys entering the building as if their life depends on it ? Knowing that they make themself looking fool
Because we don't have too many Lumets around who start off their cop movies, "Serpico"(1973) with the 'hero' being shot in the face.
Or Friedkins with a neo-realismus style in "The French Connection"(1971)...
Although both of those films did depict 'good, although somewhat sliding by on the letter of the law' cop as a loner...
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Ryan Farnes
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Movies are not reality, yes. This is reality: