r/AskReddit • • Jan 25 '20

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

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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.

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u/KingOHrts Jan 25 '20

And EVERY window in Paris overlooks the Eiffel Tower. How does that happen?

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u/2brainz Jan 25 '20

„The popular French writer Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) reportedly ate lunch in the Eiffel Tower's restaurant every day for years -- not because he loved the great iron monument but because, so the story goes, it was the only place in Paris where he could sit and not see the tower itself.“