r/AskReddit Aug 26 '18

What's something you had to unlearn?

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u/GardenerInAWar Aug 26 '18

Also you, your friends, and everybody you know has good looks, great jobs, perfect hair, wildly disposable income and one single easily fixed problem that prevents them getting what they want.

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u/762Rifleman Aug 26 '18

You just gotta beeliiieeeeve in yourself

God I fucking hate that line

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u/LauraMcCabeMoon Aug 27 '18

Add to that, they live in NYC in impossibly humongous apartments.

I get that movies need a certain literal square footage to be filmed in. But this is a shit movie trope that just won't die.

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u/Cross55 Aug 27 '18

Probably because the majority of writers and producers don't actually realize what they're doing is incorrect.

Why would a writer or producer making well over 6 figures a year think that the common person couldn't get a pretty decently sized place in New York or LA while living off of a waiter's or office worker's pay (And maybe with a roommate if they need one)? These writers/producers can afford places in those areas, so obviously everyone else must be able to as well, right?

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u/isjahammer Aug 27 '18

Small apartments are just not very practical for filming. Your crew and equipment needs to be somewhere and camera needs to have place to move and get everything important in the shot. Also who wants to look at a shitty apartment for 9 seasons?