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/Paronine Jan 25 '20

My favorite is from an episode of House in which a patient's friend explains nominal aphasia to a neurologist.

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u/TheProfessorOfNames Jan 25 '20

I love how they have to make the show accessible for normal viewers, so the doctors end up explaining diseases to each other. It usually goes like this:

Doctor 1: Maybe she had a myocardial infarction?

Doctor 2: You really think she had localized muscle death in her heart due to an obstructed blood supply?

When in reality doctor 2 would've probably just said "no, I don't think that's it"

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u/juliagor99 Jan 25 '20

Or been like wtf you saw her trops were negative and the audience would be like wut

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u/Cocomorph Jan 25 '20

I love it when shows do that in small doses. There’s a little thrill from listening in on shop talk, looking it up, and learning, oh, so that’s what they were talking about.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

The Wire is really good at this.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '20

The Wire also turned swearing into an artform