2 thoughts on “Hollywood Logic

  1. “Gimme like maybe 10 minutes screen time an’ you’ll be a world class fighter/spy/computer hacker/whatever else the protagonist needs to be!” … says every action movie ever! Just… no! That’s NOT how teaching ____ skillsets works! It takes literal YEARS to get on the level of the character doing the teaching. You don’t start out in karate as a badass, board and brick breaking black belt; you start as a white belt. First, you must learn to breathe. Then, you can learn to stand. When you’ve mastered that, you can learn to breathe. Again.

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