Who are these people? Who are they talking to? What are they talking about? We'll never find out, and that's the beauty of movie conversations, where characters can be talking on a phone while actually talking to no one at all. I often wonder how difficult it is for actors to fake the cadences and flows of a phone conversation, considering they often are talking to absolutely no one at all on the other end of the line.
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Related: what about in movies/shows where people just hang up on the person they're talking to? There's never an "ok bye!" or "i'll talk to ya later...". It happens SO MUCH. Two people are talking, then the person on the other end says something, then the main character just hangs up without so much as acknowledging what the other person said. I'm not just talking about the hero talking to the villain, either. It can be a husband talking to his wife, a mom talking to her child, etc. Drives me nuts!
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@smi1ey: Screened had an article/video on that a while back I believe.
"You're a back" BOOM! Nailed it!
I've always noticed how scenes in restaurants show the characters ordering food, but the food never arrives. In fact, most of the time one character gets upset and storms off.
Shark...man?
@Sam_Peckinpaws said:
What I notice is that the food arrives but the conversation ends and they leave without touching it.
I won't... call you back...?
@Black_Rose said:
Yea I get so pissed when they just get up and leave the restaurant without eating like any of their food or even paying for it for that matter. I have no idea why it bothers me so much, maybe it because it's a waste of food!
This was great! Fun idea for a video!
Best random thing I've seen all week XD
Look, I'll just... I'll call you back.
@Napalm said:
No, allow me to call you back!
@teh_destroyer said:
IHAVETOGOILLCALLYOUBAAAAACK...!
@Christina said:
The only time that happened to me was when I watched Casablanca, I felt like someone was ordering a drink every 5 minutes and they just never drank it
@TheFaithfullyDeparted said:
I feel like you see it a lot in teen movies, where kids are sat in the cafeteria eating lunch. Except they never actually seem to eat their lunch, they either just throw it away or just leave it.
@Christina: This for me is the worst case of that:
They don't even touch the food, he just plays with the sugar and his blunt and then leave.
THE FUCK.
@Napalm said:
Forget about it, just leave a voice mail.