The hacker that can sit down at a computer and instantly hack it or program something that would normally take weeks or months for an actual professional to do.
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Hollywood loves the 1 man army, even when it is on a level of complete insanity.
It's crazy that WarGames is still one of the most accurate depictions of hacking in cinema, and it's over 40 years old.
Specifically the "I left this program running for weeks while I did other things" aspect.
There is even an apt package for Hollywood hacking. Good way to freak people out.
And, the hacker is wearing sunglasses, and a black hoodie with the hood pulled up over its head.
Some scary shit there in those TV commercials.
Or a balaclava
Swordfish, I'm looking at you
How about the bit in Hackers where the bad guy hacker is being overpowered by the good-guy hacker, so another bad guy hacker steps in to help, with both of them typing away on the same keyboard?
That film truly is a masterpiece.
That before electricity, we had an invisible army of people who lit torches, cauldrons, and candles in unoccupied rooms/hallways just in case someone might walk in.
Even after electricity the evil lair with like 100 lit candles for mood lighting.
I love the way Castlevania explained this away when Trevor entered some catacombs and noticed that all the torches were burning even though they seemed to be abandoned.
The Indiana Jones game has a small brazier lighting mechanic if you approach one holding your torch.
When a character is under mind control and their friend/loved one tries to get them to remember who they are
their friend/loved one tries to get them to remember who they are
Lol, those always feel so weird to me. Pretty sure my parents and older brother would just shoot me and pretend they never had me. Those tear me up, because that shows how strong their relationship is.
Manic pixie dream girls.
Reasons.
After reading a descriptor of MPDG with examples, I find another source of previous gender envy, ticking yet another box on the list of "how I knew I was always a girl". Thank you!
You're AuDHD?
No, but definitely neurodivergent to some degree. I place in INTJ on the Myers-Briggs if that matters.
Breaking the 4th wall, but slightly.
"Kids today - so desensitized by movies and television. WHATDDYOUWAAANT!?"
Something about that fills me with joy every time I see the movie.
The devoted love intrest who is mesmerized by the mc's competence.
Pop Culture Detective has a video on a trope he calls “born sexy yesterday” about female characters who are extremely naive (often because they’re newly-created, or somehow new to Earth/human society) and how this allows a thoroughly mediocre male character to impress her mightily by having very ordinary knowledge that she doesn’t. A couple of examples given are how the alien in My Stepmother Is An Alien is incredibly impressed by the idea of putting extra cheese on microwave mac & cheese, and how the lead in Alita: Battle Angel is similarly blown away by a guy introducing her to chocolate.
It’s a way to have the fantasy of an incredibly (physically) attractive woman fall head-over-heels in love with you without you actually having to do anything. Just having the same knowledge that everybody else does is enough, because you’re the first person she met.
When they have a computer screen that displays large letters and maybe a flashing indicator for whatever happened on the computer. Even better when the 'hacker' is using a console that shows the code that is magically doing something while being typed and not compiled and it instantly switches so the audience knows something happened.
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!!! HACKED !!!
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!!! DENIED !!!
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!!! IDENTIFIED !!!
I used to hate it, but now I kind of like it like swords on the back so they don't get caught on stuff or block faces and silencers being whisper quiet. Movie logic!
HaCk ThE pLaNeT
I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of “character & audience already know something and which is about to blow the newbie character or one-episode character’s mind”.
Two examples: I could never get tired of someone entering the TARDIS for the first time. Or things like the episode of Buffy where one of the crew asks if she’s in the right line of work and she casually picks up an iron girder, slings it over her shoulder, and asks where he wants it moved to.
We know the TARDIS is bigger on the inside. We know Buffy has super-strength. But that character doesn’t, and it’s always satisfying to see them learn it for the first time.
The jumpscare, but specifically the medicine cabinet jumpscare.
When a large group of people break into a choreographed dance scene.
"They are standing right behind me, arent they?" "You and what army?"
When two people speak at regular conversation levels and can perfectly hear each other while being 50 meters apart