Flawed elements in fiction.

[wombat42]

If you watch almost any fictional TV or films there are often things that happen that could never happen in real life which to me makes fiction less worthwhile. For example:
- the script writer wants to link two very different cinematic scenes he has thought of together so invents a very unlikely occurance to link them together such as an unlikely coincidence.
- when someone is angry they typically smash something against the wall. This provides dramatic effect but angry ppl rarely do this. But it would otherwise be boring.
- the hero such as James Bond often goes through half a dozen near death experiences all involving miraculous escapes  but surviving every time for example jumping out of a fifth floor window into a hay cart that just happens to be passing.
- The hero is beaten to  pulp with serious injuries but within a day or two is up and about as if nothing had happened.  For example I have seem Clint Eastwood in his westerns getting beaten to a pulp in this way. Obviously the pace of the film would be interminable if it was more realistic and the injured person took weeks or months to recover.
- A  man has a very short conversation with a stranger woman in a pub and instantly she becomes his girlfriend and features heavily during the  rest of the film. Life is just not like that.

[RedKettle]

- A  man has a very short conversation with a stranger woman in a pub and instantly she becomes his girlfriend and features heavily during the  rest of the film. Life is just not like that.

This often happens for me - I offer her £120 and she becomes my girlfriend for about the length of a film.

[GingerNuts]

Go and watch a documentary.

[wombat42]

Go and watch a documentary.

I do. I much prefer documentaries. I should then be able to apply it in some way to real life and I would have learnt something useful.

[Chorley]

And the point of this thread is? 

[daviemac]

And the point of this thread is? 

I suppose to tell us fiction isn't real and a lot of things are done for dramatic effect, but if you watch documentaries, which are accounts of real events, you might be able to learn something. In case we had forgotten.   

 

[Chorley]

I suppose to tell us fiction isn't real and a lot of things are done for dramatic effect, but if you watch documentaries, which are accounts of real events, you might be able to learn something. In case we had forgotten.   

So stating the bleedin" obvious then? 

[wombat42]

There is more of a problem with soaps like Eastenders which say they include plotlines illustrating real life social issue like domestic violence, mental illness etc. It is difficult to know where the factual representation of the social issue starts and where it merges into fictional devices to provide dramatic effect.

[bhudda]

There is more of a problem with soaps like Eastenders which say they include plotlines illustrating real life social issue like domestic violence, mental illness etc. It is difficult to know where the factual representation of the social issue starts and where it merges into fictional devices to provide dramatic effect.

I will bare that in mind if and when i get round to watching east enders for the first time.