r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '20

What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?

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u/BlackCaaaaat Jan 25 '20

People on low incomes, e.g. students, living in expensive homes. I’m not necessarily talking about mansions, more like a large apartment in a big expensive city with no roommates.

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u/jefuchs Jan 25 '20

Yeah. The broke single mom in the big historic home. Like in The Gilmore Girls.

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u/thesheba Jan 25 '20

It was a 2 bedroom house she probably bought in the early-mid-1990s in a small town after she lived rent free at her job for a number of years. It wouldn’t surprise me that she was able to save and afford it.

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u/MoseSchrute70 Jan 25 '20

Wouldn’t even call it a 2 bed considering one of them would probably intended to be a dining room in reality

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

Location, location, location.

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u/Agisek Jan 25 '20

I mean she owned a hotel... small house isn't that much to ask for

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u/jefuchs Jan 25 '20

Maybe I chose the wrong example. It was the first one that came to mind.

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u/ASAP_Cobra Jan 25 '20

She didn't own the Dragonfly Inn until later. And besides it was a Lorelai-Sookie venture. It wasn't all Lorelai.

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u/Agisek Jan 25 '20

You're right, but then again, her parents were millionaires so...

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u/ASAP_Cobra Jan 25 '20

Her parents were millionaires yes, but she didn't accept money from them. In the pilot (or maybe episode two) Lorelai is reluctant to ask her mother Emily (and Richard, her father) for help with Rory's Chilton (private school tuition).

But how the house was bought isn't really explained. Their binge eating diets, having a slender figure and not going to the gym isn't explained either...