Dramatically Missing the Point: Difference between revisions

Compare [[Comically Missing the Point]], [[Poor Communication Kills]], [[We Could Have Avoided All This]], [[Ignored Epiphany]], [[Dramatic Irony]], [[Selective Obliviousness]].

 

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* The script for ''[[Pretty Woman]]'' started out a lot more tragic. One plot point was Edward renting a [[Pretty in Mink|white fur coat]] for Vivian to wear during her hired time. When she is sad over their time nearly being up, he thinks it's just because he made her give the fur back.

* In [[White Christmas]], Betty is upset at what she thinks is Judy's betrayal at leaving the act to get married and Bob's double-dealing by using the show for publicity. Bob, on the other hand, doesn't understand why she won't sing for him and thinks she's just being difficult.

 

 

* In ''[[Harry Potter]],'' Voldemort falls afoul of this trope with regards to the Elder Wand: he knows that the wand passes to whoever defeats its previous master, and interprets this as the wand going to whoever ''killed'' the last master. It fails to occur to him to think about non-lethal defeat, so he assumes that the wand's ownership should pass from Dumbledore to Snape when Snape killed the former. In fact, Draco Malfoy had already disarmed Dumbledore and become the rightful owner of the wand, which then passed to Harry when Harry disarmed Draco. This contributes to Voldemort's downfall in more ways than one, since it also leads him to kill Snape, who then passes the knowledge of how to defeat Voldemort on to Harry in what are probably the only circumstances under which Harry would actually believe him.

 

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