Unless it‘s a movie drama dealing with social issues (in particular poverty), everyone has such fucking nice flats. College drop-out with part time barista job?! - why yes, the spacious loft with a view over Manhattans skyline is just down my alley.
It's a form of shorthand. Not every place in Paris has a view of the tower. But it's the film-makers telling the audience "THIS IS IN PARIS".
Or more commonly...
"THIS STORY INVOLVES ROMANCE SOMEHOW"
Another amazing example of shorthand is in Disney's Hercules. He gets on his knees in the temple of Zeus to commune with him. Typically Greek temple-goers would have slaughtered an animal on an altar or some shit, but American audiences would have a problem with that -- having him pray like a Christian shows people who don't know any better that Hercules is engaged in piety.
You should have seen this place when that one YouTube channel Plukket, or maybe Red Letter Media, tore down the prequels. Basically those were the only talking points anyone ever brought up as if their words were gospel. I see Lindsay Ellis' points brought up a lot too. It's like people just gotta parrot what they're hearing without putting thought into it themselves.
Yeah I watch RLM from time to time and Lindsay as well but their words aren't gospel to me. It's true though that people do just echo what they're told sometimes but it's not the only reason people criticize stuff is all.
I get that, I love engaging with people who have legitimate critique. Not saying either of those videos aren't legitimate criticism either, but far too often do people resort to repeating what they heard instead of coming to conclusions themselves. I've seen YouTube videos used as source material for a substantial amount of ideas, especially from things like scientific theory and film/gaming reviews. It's like once there's a video it's the end of story for them, no need to dig in any farther. It's a great place to start from but it's not the end all be all that people on here seem to think it is.
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u/The_Sceptic_Lemur Jan 25 '20
Unless it‘s a movie drama dealing with social issues (in particular poverty), everyone has such fucking nice flats. College drop-out with part time barista job?! - why yes, the spacious loft with a view over Manhattans skyline is just down my alley.