Come on, save the world like in the movies
4 years ago by guest · 930 Likes · 8 comments · Popular
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guest_
· 4 years ago
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Actually- movies and real life are pretty close in this case. In most pandemic type movies what happens? Our heroes and main characters apply wisdom and knowledge and skill and determination to buckle down and solve/contain/survive the problem and usually help others along the way right?
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guest_
· 4 years ago
But what about the billions of other people in the films universe- the ones we don’t spend a couple hours focusing on? Well, usually a bunch of them die, and then a bunch more panic or do foolish things and get themselves or others killed or in trouble right? So in real life- we have poor editors and we spend a lot of time focusing on all the dumb characters instead of the ones who would be the heroes of our pandemic film.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
There are of course a couple other character tropes common to these films- I’ll use the fairly well known Jurassic Park as it is in essence a pandemic film that substitutes dinosaurs for microscopic germs. Dennis Nedry. The man who cares about HIS safety only, the man who says “don’t think of the danger- think of the money!” And as our heroes try to survive and help the situation- Dennis just keeps making it worse trying to make it better for himself while he focuses on the financial side of things over the life side.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
And then of course you have the one who refuses to acknowledge the danger until and unless it is too late. The one who isn’t inherently focused on money of self enrichment necessarily- this is the character that people usually yell at when they are on screen or roll their eyes. “Why would you do that?” “How could they be so dumb?!” “If I were in that situation I wouldn’t do that!” Well Debbie. Here we are. And guess what- some people get to find out that if they were in a movie- they wouldn’t be the person they think they are.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
But the rest of the US is doing our part. It makes it hard when others don’t- but we are still trying. When your phone or internet doesn’t work and you can’t fix it on your end- you call the company to report a problem right? When your card is declined but you know there’s money you call the bank about the problem right? When is the last time you called your internet provider or the bank just because everything was working right and you wanted to tell them? When your friends car breaks they tell you the story but they generally don’t call to tell you their car worked today and yesterday and every day before right? The problems are the ones we notice. Lots of us aren’t problems.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
But sane and reasonable Americans are fighting a battle against something worse than the pandemic in any film. More resilient and pervasive than Covid- the willfully ignorant. The dangerously incompetent. The.. rest of America that still wants to live in the early 1800’s and says that “sometimes people just die of preventable disease- that’s life.” So the story of America right now is a time travel movie. How do we make these people learn from the past while also dragging them from the past they are stuck in and into the present? This I do not have an answer for. Sorry world. We won’t give up though. Like having a brother for a roommate that leaves used condoms in the dishwasher- we are stuck with these folks the same as the rest of the world is and we do not like it either.
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itsamemaria
· 4 years ago
I saw this in a meme and loved it: disaster movies always start with people not listening to a scientist.
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mrfahrenheit
· 4 years ago
All pandemic movies start with a scientist getting ignored, that's all I'm saying
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