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[andrewducker]

If normal movies were directed the way science-fiction movies were....

...Every time someone left the house to go somewhere, there would be a two-minute sequence showing them opening the car door, shoving the key in the ignition, zooming to a close-up of the instrument panel, the exhaust shooting out of the pipes, and a slow crawl as the car exited the garage. Then, there would be another ten-second pan of the car zooming down an empty road, watching as it blinked out of sight.

This would apply to all transportation, including planes and trains. An elevator ride would involve many close-ups of glowing lights and magnificent pull-backs to show the elevator zooming to the top of the shaft, even if the trip was completely irrelevant to anything else that was going on.

...Every important conversation would be had while the characters were standing (or, preferably, walking) through something large and immense, like Grand Central Station or a building construction project. It wouldn't matter how personal or confidential the conversation was ("Yes, we're planning on assassinating the President, but I'm only doing it because I want to make sweet love to you over his body") - no one would ever hold it in a small apartment where there was nothing interesting to see.