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Ultimately it's The Law of Conservation of Detail and extends to just about everything that doesn't run in Real Time.
Also consider that the escapades of The Lord of the Rings probably took a very long time for the characters, yet we see it time-compressed into a handful of hours for our viewing pleasure.
Not really, though perhaps in a similar ballpark.
Someone goes to the hospital and gets a biopsy done. It's understandable that the next scene may be the doctor giving the patient their results, even though between the first scene and the next one five days passed in-universe. Time-skips between scenes isn't what I'm talking about.
What I'm talking about is a patient who takes the day off work, goes to the hospital in the morning, has the biopsy done, then goes to lunch, then meets with his doctor in the afternoon to get the results, and then tells his family about them at dinner. Things taking an unrealistically short amount of in-universe time.
We may not have this outside of the Artistic License trope for the field in question.
There was once a reality TV show I saw called the Sing-Off where various groups sang a capella and the judges would deliberate. I thought that they deliberated between commercial breaks. I later learned that they would take like an hour or so to deliberate. I don't know where that would fall
Things Are More Effective in Hollywood ? As in, normally the thing takes time to work, but thanks to the amazing Acme products/the Insufferable Genius brillianc/ just because it can be done instantly?
Cartoonland Time’s Laconic page: "Characters get involved in scenarios that would realistically take longer, but happen in a much shorter period of time than expected."
Events that, in the real world, would occur over months or years are portrayed in fiction as taking place over a few hours, days, or weeks. Some examples:
1. Trials: On television, they make it look like a person gets arrested, and then their trial happens a few weeks later. In reality, it can take months or years. They do the same thing with civil cases: The car accident happens, the next day someone gets served with a complaint, there are one or two depositions over the course of the following couple of weeks, then there is a dramatic trial. Pretty much every legal procedure show (The Practice, Law and Order, JAG, etc.) does this.
2. Medical problems: Someone goes to the hospital with a medical problem. Over the next day or two, their doctors do a long list of scans, blood tests, biopsies, and other tests. Once the problem is diagnosed, surgery is scheduled for the next day, and then after a couple of days of recovery the patient, now cured, goes home. House, MD is a prime offender.
Is there a Troupe for events that would normally take place over a long span of time being portrayed as occurring in an unrealistically short timeframe for dramatic purposes?