Overused Film Tropes

[summerisle]

After recently watching Ben Hur, I'll go with biblical epics :

Angelic voices
White Jesus with long hair
Massive statues
Trumpets galore
Alluring dancing girls
A cast of thousands
Miscast American film stars, I'm looking at you John Wayne.
Torture scenes, usually involving whips.
Deep and dank dungeons
A reformed criminal

 

[dublinbluenose]

A black man buying flash new clothes or jewellery after making his first big drug deal

Mexican standoff

A drunk Irish man

 

[Del-boy]

Every scouser playing a part in a gangster film wearing a Liverpool shirt in a scene or making some sort of reference to being a kopite.

 

[Cellardweller]

An alcoholic grizzled cop

 

[jaycee]

Any female getting chased will have high heels on and fall over

 

[Billysgingham.]

The killer sitting in the chair in the dark room waiting for you to turn the lights on.

 

[blue to the bone]

A black man who is been chased by any white cop no matter what size or shape the cop is he always catches the black criminal!

 

[jaycee]

A black man who is been chased by any white cop no matter what size or shape the cop is he always catches the black criminal!

And they dont ALWAYS shoot them

 

[Rob17896]

After recently watching Ben Hur, I'll go with biblical epics :

Angelic voices
White Jesus with long hair
Massive statues
Trumpets galore
Alluring dancing girls
A cast of thousands
Miscast American film stars, I'm looking at you John Wayne.
Torture scenes, usually involving whips.
Deep and dank dungeons
A reformed criminal

A renegade cop

 

[kev]

After recently watching Ben Hur, I'll go with biblical epics :

Angelic voices
White Jesus with long hair
Massive statues
Trumpets galore
Alluring dancing girls
A cast of thousands
Miscast American film stars, I'm looking at you John Wayne.
Torture scenes, usually involving whips.
Deep and dank dungeons
A reformed criminal

I have nothing to add to the thread, just wanted to congratulate you on the use of the word 'tropes' which is now my word of the week. I'll be trying to squeeze it into as many conversations as possible. lol

 

[MouthFullOfFangs]

Family moves into new house which happens to be haunted

 

[chrismpw]

1. Every disease creates Zombies.
2. Vampires and warewolves fall in love (of course)
3. A couple arguing and hating one another in scene 1 will fall in love by the end of the film.
4. Invasion, all is lost, the US save the day from a devastated White House, you can feel a salute the flag coming on. Pan out to people cheering near Westminster / the Eiffel tower and bunch of people around a very wearing turbans also cheer.
5. Deserted spaceship - everybody turned into zombies.
6. Teenagers go to a lake house for a break.... Zombies.
7. Volcano (never the right type for the location) threatens everything on the planet unless a woman with a laptop can convince a man of the solution.

The above covers around 95% of Hollywood output I feel.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Car used to escape from something struggles to start.

 

[kev]

Time bombs can never be defused until the clock shows 2 seconds to detonation.

 

[summerisle]

Car used to escape from something struggles to start.

Every film.lol