13 things about professions movies get all wrong
From endlessly glass-polishing bartenders to ‘super smart’ airline pilots.
Films add drama and fantasy to the everyday and professions are subject to a fair bit of artistic licence – for example spies are, sadly, not James Bond.
It is these discrepancies between real life and on-screen that are being discussed on Reddit, where user Kattsu-Don asked their fellows what it is movies “get wrong” about their profession.
Here are 13 of the best and most popular responses.
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2. From user throwaway622796
“Bartenders don’t spend their entire shift wiping the bar or polishing glasses.”
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4. From user thepilotboy
“Airline pilot. I don’t do cocaine nor am I an alcoholic, and neither are 99.9% of the other airline pilots.
“We aren’t all in the military/ex military.
“Also, we (pilots in general) aren’t some elite breed of people who are super smart or had super good grades. I was a s*** student in high school and college.
“The guy that is flying your plane is probably just that dorky kid in high school that really liked planes.”
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6. From user saaltxwater
“No surgery scene in a movie follows sterile technique.”
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8. From user srikos
“Pizza delivery driver. A lot less invitations for sex by sexy ladies or dudes.
“Though I did delivery to a porn company one time. To their office. They didn’t even tip.”
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10. From user poisonthewatersupply
“Whenever I see someone welding in a movie I always notice how they aren’t wearing anything to cover the skin on their arms or body.
“That’s how you get serious arc burn that’s like a super bad sunburn. Hurts like hell.”
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12. From user ikverhaar
“Lab research.
“You can’t do that stuff so fast. You can’t make a cure for a virus within a week.
“Enhance! Enhance! Enhance! Aha, we can now read his DNA molecules right from the security cam footage!”
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What do movies get wrong about your job?
