Cliches of the film industry.

For years the film industry has been putting out the same boring burned out movies that we didn’t even realise, were regurgitated ideas jumping from studio to studio. Cliché’s in the film industry have been around for quite some time. These clichés can be found in popular comedy, horror, romantic, or drama movies. These are almost always predictable stories, that make the entire cinematic universe played out.

 A classic cliché has to be a boy and a girl bumping into each other with books in hand, usually at a university or crowded New York city street instantaneously falling in love. I know right, shoot me dead now. This concept has been pushed so hard that it became the fairy-tale way of falling in love. If you haven't  met the love of your life in this way does it matter? is the love authentic?. This scene had young girls walking around with books in hopes of finding the love of their lives. The chances of you meeting someone by bumping into them, while you both try and pick the books up at the same time, awkwardly trying not to make eye contact is pretty slim. If anything, that person will probably just yell at you and tell you to watch were you are walking.

Another cliché is black people dying first in horror movies. When I was younger, I didn’t think much of it, I was convinced black people could not run but come to think of it. This couldn’t be any false, have you seen Usain bolt murder the track, this man holds numerous world records. The concept of black people dying first in horror movies is just white supremist writing used to push the narrative that white people can survive, any serial killer, monster attack in the woods or alien invasion.

Thank God for black horror writers such as Jordan Peele writer and director of “Get Out” and “US’’. For creating horror films were black people play lead roles, and most importantly make it out alive. His films are not only original, but they represent black people in a different light, of being survivors and not just victims. The concept of a black person always being used as a guinea pig to slow the predator down so the white person escapes and makes it out alive, is slowly dying out, and we love to see it.

The one cliché that pisses me off the most has to be the rough sex. pushing each other into the walls, while picture frames and lamps are falling everywhere, looks so uncomfortable. Are you seriously gong to replace a lamp every time you have sex? its an unrealistic interpretation of sex. I would rather a sex scene be slow and passionate which shows some sort of authenticity, rather than literal combat disguised as sex. I understand it’s a movie, non of it is real but atleast make it believable.

There are dozens of cliches dressed up a little different in every film that we watch. The same old narrative, because it's a box office hit and the actors won a couple of awards, gets remade over and over again. Nothing is authentic anymore.