Movies aren't expected to represent life at its most accurate - and nor do they always intend to. But with movies purporting to be set in the "real world," it helps a lot (for immersion purposes) if the fictional world resembles the actual world we live in as closely as possible. Over the years, we've all become accustomed to those little things that occur in "movie world" that never happen in real life - we forgive them because they're used time and time again, and are usually employed to make a story more efficient. People not saying "goodbye" on the telephone, for example. There are some things, however, that frequently occur in the realms of movies that we've all come to accept as normal, purely because filmmakers have reenforced them to such an extent that they're generally accepted as being plausible. That includes things like those brown grocery store bags with baguettes or celery stalks sticking out of them (has this ever happened in the history of the world, despite being in every movie ever?), or the fact that movie characters are - for some reason - allowed to order a beer in a bar without specifying the brand ("Gimme a beer"). Huh? Our pick goes to one such movie trait that was recently brought to light on Reddit. Remember all those movies (like Bird on a Wire) where people - mostly criminals - are put into the witness protection program and are then hunted down by assassins or killers at a later date? No such thing has ever even come close to happening in real life, apparently: not one of the 8,500+ protected people have ever been harmed as a result of being in the United States witness protection program, despite the fact that the movies have led us to believe that it's super risky. What do you say? Which things always happen in movies that never do in real life? Let us know in the comments section below.
