{"id":11685,"date":"2011-04-21T18:11:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T17:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=11685"},"modified":"2011-04-21T18:12:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T17:12:41","slug":"movie-phone-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/04\/21\/movie-phone-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Phone Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Movie-Phone-Rules.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11686\" title=\"Movie Phone Rules\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Movie-Phone-Rules.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the movie world there appears to be two major rules regarding phones:<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Just hang up without saying goodbye<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/APUQeQalRsU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part of this is presumably so screenwriters can quickly get to the next scene without being slowed down by what would actually happen in real life (i.e. awkward goodbyes or &#8216;just another thing&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Go to a place where there is no signal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XIZVcRccCx0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a tool which immediately adds tension, as characters in a remote place lose the safety net option of calling the cops (although aren&#8217;t cops always late in the movies anyway?). The fact that it has been done to death has made it something of a cliche in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Got any others?<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/home.earthlink.net\/~mthyen\/\">A list of 555 numbers in TV shows and movies<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviecliches.com\/cliche2.html\">Movie cliches<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the movie world there appears to be two major rules regarding phones: hang up without saying goodbye and go to a place where there is no signal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1617],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}