Procedural non-realism in movies (5 min password hacks, heroes stealing fighter jets, instant money transfers) create weird modern blindness
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...this is distinct from physics unrealism, magic, psychological unrealism, which we're more conscious of
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I like this distinction but I'm not sure how modern it is - procedural details have always had to serve narrative
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I think the worst offender is violence unrealism (both in hand-to-hand combat and capacity to magically dodge bullets)
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and ease of crime - how many people are behind the bars because 'the guy in tv did it like this'?



