When movies/tv shows feature lines like 'this isn't like the movies'...feels very lazy. No better way to signal realism?
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gotta go many levels deep to make it work. I like referencing a fictional piece of fiction in the show
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no, but its how I've seen it work...also good in comics...Watchmen did an amazing job of developing in-world comics to contrast itself
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