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Are you stuck in movie logic?

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239 points eatitraw | 1 comments | 17 Nov 25 12:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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socalgal2 ◴[17 Nov 25 23:15 UTC] No.45959552[source]▶
> Communication failures like these make for good storytelling ...

No, they make for horrible story telling and make the movies feel fake and the conflicts contrived. It's bad lazy writing. Bad because it's fake. Lazy because the writer should have come up with an actually valid conflict.

I'm not saying I agree with the examples though. I didn't feel Good Will Hunting nor La-La Land were examples of this personally.

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1. magarnicle ◴[17 Nov 25 23:21 UTC] No.45959608[source]▶
It depends. TFA's Good Will Hunting example is good storytelling, because the whole point is that Will was not ready to hear that direct conversation. In fact, Ben Affleck's character basically says that to him at the end of the movie, when he has finally grown up enough to hear it.

Bad examples include almost every episode of Friends, where all the drama is based on a stupid, unnecessary lie.