1. Right Place, Right (Or Wrong) Time
WWE.comOn a somewhat similar note to the previous point (but even more contrived because these situations derive from random events), it's amazing how many characters in movies find themselves in very specific places at either the most perfect moment or the exact moment they don't want to be there. Often, this particularly convenient event will involve a car or a taxi. For example, in The Fifth Element, Leeloo - a supreme being and saviour of the universe - jumped in to a passing flying taxi, having broken out of a laboratory, which happened to be driven by Korben Dallas - a former Major in the Special Forces. How convenient that she didn't land in a typical taxi driver's cab - like a fat guy munching on a burger, a chatty man who'd driven cabs all his life and wanted to talk about the weather or something equally as unexpected, but less useful to her, like a young woman driver or a ninety year old man. She just so happened to stumble upon a guy with all the skills required to help her. The opposite happened in the Goonies. When Chunk went to find help, when his fellow Goonies were hiding in the fireplace of the restaurant the Fratellis were hiding out at, he encountered a car on the road. Explaining to the people in the car about how he needed to go to a police station to inform the law of the Fratellis activities, the man in the car turned on the internal light to reveal that the Fratellis themselves were in the car. Of all the cars that could have come along first, it had to be the people Chunk was trying to get away from. This sort of thing always happens in horror movies, when the characters who are trying to escape the killer actually end up flagging the killer or one of their accomplices down. Of course, the entries on this list aren't only confined to movies (remember Caleb's arrival in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series "Dirty Girls" episode when, not only did he pick up a potential slayer who was running from his flunkies, he then dumped her in the road, wounded, just in time for her to be picked up by Faith and Willow - two opposing examples in one foul swoop), but they tend to happen more often in movies due to the limited amount of time that a movie lasts for, which means plot devices are required to help them progress quicker. Did you like this article? Can you think of any other convenient things that always happen in the movies? Let us know in the comments area below. And please feel free to follow me on
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