Reality Is Unrealistic: Difference between revisions

 

See also: [[Based on a Great Big Lie]], [[The Tasteless But True Story]].

 

== Media In General ==

* Actual rain never looks like real rain on film, which is why they use a hose and sprinkler. But now that you know that, rain will never look real. You also don't get rain recorded when you just film it. To get it visible on camera, it's back-lit. For the famous scene of ''[[Singin' in the Rain|Singin in The Rain]]'', the water was mixed with milk so it would show up on camera. The smell on set afterwards can only be imagined.

** Amusingly, given the limitations of 1960s technology it would have been ''more'' expensive to design and build a vacuum-sealed sound stage and sets capable of filming a mock-up of the entire Moon landing sequence in vacuum than it actually cost to design and build the Apollo spacecraft.

* [[John Barrowman]], who is openly gay, tried out for the role of Will from ''[[Will and Grace]]''. According to the producers, ''[http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/interviews/article.html?in_article_id=23649&in_page_id=11 he wasn't gay enough]''. They then proceeded to hire Eric McCormack, who is straight.

* About fifteen years ago, there was a foiled bank robbery where one of the robbers had a submachine gun, and fired a couple bursts at the guards, with video shown on the news. There were accusations that the video was faked because none of the guards were hit, let alone shredded to pieces as they would have expected. This objection eventually was raised as the story developed, with a clip of a gun expert basically explaining that submachine guns aren't known for their fantastic accuracy, especially when you're ''holding it wrong'', not even really trying to aim or keep it under control.

** ''[[The Dark Tower]]: The Drawing of the Three''. Near the end of the first segment, a [[Mook]] opens fire with an M-16 assault rifle, which [[I Call It Vera|he calls]] "The Wonderful [[Rambo]] Machine". He promptly cuts one of his own allies in half. The narrative then pauses to point out that with a weapon like the M-16, [[More Dakka]] will send you off target after about four or five shots. It describes the look of amazement on Eddie's face as the bullets miss him by a mile. The idiot in question is screaming "I got him!", "unable to distinguish between the script in his head and reality" when he is shot.