You can tell I´ve been watching and learning. Movies and TV are really educational. All you have to do is observe. Take the hero for example.
If the hero has a psychological/physical problem which has prevented him from effectively dealing with problems, you can rest assured that this problem will disappear at an opportune time.
The hero always misses the villain leaving the scene by seconds.
Stripping to the waist makes the hero invulnerable.
The hero will always be paired off with a female character, who hates him for most of the first half of the movie, until he shows his feminine side. The sidekick never will.
The hero's best friend/partner will usually be killed by the bad guys three days before retirement.
The hero's new wife will be mowed down by 80 machine guns right after the wedding or during the honeymoon. He will then fall in love at teh funeral with her best friend who has always admired him.
Heroes can go without food or sleep, with no measurable drop in physical or mental faculties, for at least 72 hours. They can also fight and do in several bad guys imediately after being shot, and never even complain about a sore arm.
The hero will always have a small trickle of blood in the right corner of his mouth after a fight. His lip will never be split in the middle, and his upper lip will always be invulnerable. He will wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, then look at it. If his face displays any other injury, it will usually be a small abrasion on his right cheekbone. He will wear a band-aid on this for one day, after which it will be miraculously healed.
The hero will always refuse the assistance of friends or medical personnel after a fight, or after being shot, bombed, stabbed etc. He will climb aboard the nearest conveyance and continue pursuing the bad guys and medicate himself with whisky and bandages in a cheap hotel room, later that night.He will lose no blood all day, from the bullet hole in his stomach.
If the hero gets into a second fight, his most injured body part will always be punched or kicked.
A hero will show no pain even during the most terrific beating, yet he will wince if a women attempts to clean a facial wound.
When a hero is paired with a weak sidekick, that sidekick will invariably save the hero's life at a crucial moment, or show remarkable proficiency with weapons in a key scene.
If the hero is a white male and has an assistant/sidekick who is either not white or not male the assistant/sidekick will die, preferably in an act of heroic sacrifice.
If the movie hero has a sidekick and he mentions his family in the first two minutes of the film, the sidekick will surely be killed.
The movie hero is (almost) always divorced, but he still has some contact with his ex-wife who tells him that she could not stay married to him because she loves him too much.
Houses are another place to learn.
People never answer the door until the doorbell or knocking has sounded at least three times.
The hero lives in a major city working at some okay, but not particularly high-paying job, and yet he or she has a roomy apartment filled with nice stuff, generally with a good view, and sometimes a nice, romantic rooftop to go to, that overlooks the main body of water of that city, and would cost 100 years salary in real life.
People never get out of the house when there is obvious danger there (ghosts, murderers).
People who hear something weird outside will go OUT to look, even if they know there's a homicidal maniac on the loose. Usaully it will be a young beautiful woman in her clevage revealing bathrobe.
When someone's in bed and hears a sound outside, he'll get up and turn the lights on before looking out of a window, even if this usually guarantees that he'll never be able to see anything going on.
When an intruder is in the house, the occupant will sneak along a wall with his back pressed to it tightly and his arms out a bit from his body, palms flat against the wall.
When there's an intruder somewhere in the house, the thing that jumps at the heroine in the dark turns out to be her cat, even if it comes from places cats wouldn't be, like inside a cupboard! As soon as she relaxes, the killer will show up and strangle her.
Any apartment in Paris will have a view of the Eiffel Tower.
If the hero has a psychological/physical problem which has prevented him from effectively dealing with problems, you can rest assured that this problem will disappear at an opportune time.
The hero always misses the villain leaving the scene by seconds.
Stripping to the waist makes the hero invulnerable.
The hero will always be paired off with a female character, who hates him for most of the first half of the movie, until he shows his feminine side. The sidekick never will.
The hero's best friend/partner will usually be killed by the bad guys three days before retirement.
The hero's new wife will be mowed down by 80 machine guns right after the wedding or during the honeymoon. He will then fall in love at teh funeral with her best friend who has always admired him.
Heroes can go without food or sleep, with no measurable drop in physical or mental faculties, for at least 72 hours. They can also fight and do in several bad guys imediately after being shot, and never even complain about a sore arm.
The hero will always have a small trickle of blood in the right corner of his mouth after a fight. His lip will never be split in the middle, and his upper lip will always be invulnerable. He will wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, then look at it. If his face displays any other injury, it will usually be a small abrasion on his right cheekbone. He will wear a band-aid on this for one day, after which it will be miraculously healed.
The hero will always refuse the assistance of friends or medical personnel after a fight, or after being shot, bombed, stabbed etc. He will climb aboard the nearest conveyance and continue pursuing the bad guys and medicate himself with whisky and bandages in a cheap hotel room, later that night.He will lose no blood all day, from the bullet hole in his stomach.
If the hero gets into a second fight, his most injured body part will always be punched or kicked.
A hero will show no pain even during the most terrific beating, yet he will wince if a women attempts to clean a facial wound.
When a hero is paired with a weak sidekick, that sidekick will invariably save the hero's life at a crucial moment, or show remarkable proficiency with weapons in a key scene.
If the hero is a white male and has an assistant/sidekick who is either not white or not male the assistant/sidekick will die, preferably in an act of heroic sacrifice.
If the movie hero has a sidekick and he mentions his family in the first two minutes of the film, the sidekick will surely be killed.
The movie hero is (almost) always divorced, but he still has some contact with his ex-wife who tells him that she could not stay married to him because she loves him too much.
Houses are another place to learn.
People never answer the door until the doorbell or knocking has sounded at least three times.
The hero lives in a major city working at some okay, but not particularly high-paying job, and yet he or she has a roomy apartment filled with nice stuff, generally with a good view, and sometimes a nice, romantic rooftop to go to, that overlooks the main body of water of that city, and would cost 100 years salary in real life.
People never get out of the house when there is obvious danger there (ghosts, murderers).
People who hear something weird outside will go OUT to look, even if they know there's a homicidal maniac on the loose. Usaully it will be a young beautiful woman in her clevage revealing bathrobe.
When someone's in bed and hears a sound outside, he'll get up and turn the lights on before looking out of a window, even if this usually guarantees that he'll never be able to see anything going on.
When an intruder is in the house, the occupant will sneak along a wall with his back pressed to it tightly and his arms out a bit from his body, palms flat against the wall.
When there's an intruder somewhere in the house, the thing that jumps at the heroine in the dark turns out to be her cat, even if it comes from places cats wouldn't be, like inside a cupboard! As soon as she relaxes, the killer will show up and strangle her.
Any apartment in Paris will have a view of the Eiffel Tower.