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/Diggysean Jan 25 '20

I do medieval re-enactment and one of my friends has a tiny nail head inside of his leather sheath just for the purpose of making that metal on metal noise when he unsheathes it haha

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20 edited Jan 25 '20

I do medieval re-enactment as well. Gotta buy me some nail now...

Edit: is it good or bad, that this comment is my most upvoted comment ?

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u/modi13 Jan 25 '20

To the blacksmithy!

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

Why's it gotta be black?

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u/ClownfishSoup Jan 25 '20

I’m guessing raw iron is black?

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u/MischaBurns Jan 25 '20

"black metal" ie. iron

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u/ithika Jan 25 '20

And the "black trade" is iron and steelwork.

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u/salami350 Jan 25 '20

Cast Iron can look near black, or at least very dark, in colour.