There are a few clichés which have been existing in the cinematic history of the world.
We have accepted them, laughed at them and shook our heads at them, but no movie is complete without these.
Here's a list of some clichés present in the movies.
*this list is in no particular order*
Enjoy
1. The bad guys are beating up the dashing hero. The hero is on his last breath, he is being held up by two henchmen of the villain, while the main villain slowly advances with a knife towards the poor, dying hero.
*BAM* enters the hero's sidekick and punches the villain, a sudden energy enters the previously dying hero, and they both finish off the bad guys in a silly choreographed fight sequence.
sounds familiar?
2. Isolated house, newly wed couple, spooky background score.
Windows rattle in the night and lights go out randomly on their own accord. The girl witnesses et all and takes heavy breaths, casts exaggerated panicked looks all around and cries incoherently about a third 'presence' in the house to her happily unassuming husband, who promptly blames all her visions on her imagination.
This is the basis of all horror movies of Bollywood, and it never changes!
3. All members of alien species wear the same outfits, including clothing, hairstyles, and jewelery. This makes them readily identifiable. Aliens who do not dress like aliens are hiding something. And they inexorably speak perfect english too!
4. The characters never sneeze show any symptoms of being any less than of perfect health, except coughing. That's a sure sign of a terminal illness.
5. United States is the prime target for all alien activity, dinosaur attack, and mysterious interplanetary force invasion, you get the drift, right? Any freak attack will happen only and EXCLUSIVELY in the United States only. Hell, the zombie apocalypse starts there!
6. As soon as the main character holds out his/her arm out, a taxi/cab or an Auto rickshaw appears out of thin air, but taxi/cabs or Auto rickshaws are suspiciously absent when the character is running from an evil mastermind or is being followed.
7.Evil geniuses are thoughtful enough to put up a huge LED display on the time bombs planted by them, so that the hero won't have much difficulty in defusing the ticking bomb. How sweet. Bleh!
8. You can type ANYTHING on google and you will find it in the first few links. How? How?
Where is this ever accommodating google when I'm doing my assignments?
9. When your loved one or a newly discovered sibling lays bleeding from a gunshot wound, you don't do the sensible thing of calling the ambulance or performing emergency first aid, nooooo!. You hold them warmly in your arms, cursing the Gods or berating them from leaving you all alone in the world!
10. If you fell off a cliff or are involved in a near fatal car accident, or the evil villain has plotted to kill you off and has nearly succeeded..you will be rescued by a family of a nearby village or a tribe and if you are a guy, then one of their daughters will fall in love with you and you will return, much stronger, to take revenge.
We have accepted them, laughed at them and shook our heads at them, but no movie is complete without these.
Here's a list of some clichés present in the movies.
*this list is in no particular order*
Enjoy
1. The bad guys are beating up the dashing hero. The hero is on his last breath, he is being held up by two henchmen of the villain, while the main villain slowly advances with a knife towards the poor, dying hero.
*BAM* enters the hero's sidekick and punches the villain, a sudden energy enters the previously dying hero, and they both finish off the bad guys in a silly choreographed fight sequence.
sounds familiar?
2. Isolated house, newly wed couple, spooky background score.
Windows rattle in the night and lights go out randomly on their own accord. The girl witnesses et all and takes heavy breaths, casts exaggerated panicked looks all around and cries incoherently about a third 'presence' in the house to her happily unassuming husband, who promptly blames all her visions on her imagination.
This is the basis of all horror movies of Bollywood, and it never changes!
3. All members of alien species wear the same outfits, including clothing, hairstyles, and jewelery. This makes them readily identifiable. Aliens who do not dress like aliens are hiding something. And they inexorably speak perfect english too!
4. The characters never sneeze show any symptoms of being any less than of perfect health, except coughing. That's a sure sign of a terminal illness.
5. United States is the prime target for all alien activity, dinosaur attack, and mysterious interplanetary force invasion, you get the drift, right? Any freak attack will happen only and EXCLUSIVELY in the United States only. Hell, the zombie apocalypse starts there!
6. As soon as the main character holds out his/her arm out, a taxi/cab or an Auto rickshaw appears out of thin air, but taxi/cabs or Auto rickshaws are suspiciously absent when the character is running from an evil mastermind or is being followed.
7.Evil geniuses are thoughtful enough to put up a huge LED display on the time bombs planted by them, so that the hero won't have much difficulty in defusing the ticking bomb. How sweet. Bleh!
8. You can type ANYTHING on google and you will find it in the first few links. How? How?
Where is this ever accommodating google when I'm doing my assignments?
9. When your loved one or a newly discovered sibling lays bleeding from a gunshot wound, you don't do the sensible thing of calling the ambulance or performing emergency first aid, nooooo!. You hold them warmly in your arms, cursing the Gods or berating them from leaving you all alone in the world!
10. If you fell off a cliff or are involved in a near fatal car accident, or the evil villain has plotted to kill you off and has nearly succeeded..you will be rescued by a family of a nearby village or a tribe and if you are a guy, then one of their daughters will fall in love with you and you will return, much stronger, to take revenge.
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