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I'm thinking about stock action film scenes/scenarios.
Like, if you go to an action flick and there isn't a high-speed car chase, something made a high-speed car chase specifically impossible, like cars being inappropriate to the setting. Or if the movie has an adventure-y bent to it, it needs a panoramic shot of the exotic locale the heroes are visiting in that scene. If there's a romantic subplot, the love interest will be imperiled by the hero's action-packed lifestyle. Or explosions regardless of anything else.
I suppose this is more of an index than a single trope?
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A character goes down the path of evil, but turns around at the last minute and saves everything as best s/he can, perhaps because now It's Personal (say, s/he chose some target for crime at random and it turns out to be a precious pet). Basically, the plot of Wall Street, but I've also Seen It A Mil… you know.
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Is there a trope where someone starts off a loser, and ends up being a non-loser?. Examples include Kung Fu Panda and Gullivers Travels 2010 Film .
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This seems to be common in action movies. Do we have a trope for this? In the middle of an action scene between characters, there's a civilian who either:
- 1. Doesn't notice until he either comes out into the scene or the action comes to him.
- 2. Appears to be completely unchanged despite the action happening right near him (like grandparents).
Would examples help? (I think I exceeded the character limit.)
This is just one specific example, so it may well be that there's really no trope. In the sequel to Wall Street, Shia La Beouf's character Jacob pitches a form of alternative energy technology that seems to be a sort of fusion of aspects of actual renewable/alternative energies, plus some Techno Babble for good measure. It focuses on atoms of hydrogen, is powered by tides, and involves lasers and "fusion".
Besides the various Physics Goof and whatnot, I'm specifically curious about technology that fuses various contemporaneous technologies, perhaps by way of Did Not Do The Research — like Schizo Tech for only one time period.
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