Clichés in american movies

Do american women really have to drink a glass of red wine while taking a bath (surrounded by candles, obviously) as shown in every american flick?

 

In "Fatal Attraction", I'd say Glenn Close didn't exactly have a relaxing scene involving bathtubs.

 

Not really, my wife, for example, hates wine. She also rarely, if ever has lit candles while bathing. She is just one person, but I suspect she's more like other women than not.

 

I've heard the most common movie line is "Let's get out of here" (don't know how accurate that is)... but I guess I wouldn't call it a cliché.

In Scott Fitzgerald's 'Pat Hobby' stories, the title character--a hack screenwriter--has a stock line he puts in every script: "Don't just stand there... Do something!"

 

"I will find you !" Screamed by Daniel Day Lewis in Last of the Mohicans and many other films

 

It's the law here in California

 

suggestion: don't watch American movies.

 

no candles in the bath as well, but my wife likes a little glass of wine during the holidays.

 

American Movie Cliche Number One................After a passionate tryst, men lay back with the sheet up to their waist while women always have it tucked all the way up under their chins. And having been very neat , tidy and dripdry they both can immediately slip their clothes on without visiting the bathroom.

 

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

 

"I'm too old for this $hit!"

"This ends now!"

 

Does this thread imply that there are no cliches in non-American movies?

 

I've often noticed that movie and TV trysts often end with the man apparently buck-naked under the covers, but the woman still has her bra on. As if a man would forget to remove it.

 

My wife would never do that. She only drinks white wine.

 

I think it implies that cliches are parts of American movies, rather than being the whole movie itself. O happy thought!

 

how many times have you heard those outside of a movie? many.

 

Every male has within him a deep and abiding desire to burst into a room, point at an incorrigible evildoer and yell, "This ends NOW!", and then end it, NOW. Problem is, we're all too old for this $hit!

 

a cliche himself!

 

Read the book. It's a wonderful collection of all the great movie cliches, which only somebody who really loved and closely observed them could ever have written.

One of the best in the book: FRUIT CART. Every time you see a village market in a foreign town, and the camera shows a peddler with a fruit cart, you know there's going to be a chase scene or a fight scene where the fruit cart topples over. Every time.

 

sorry, just not a fan of critics....

 

Smoking after whoopie

 

Oh yea!!! when I smoked it was the best ciggie I had all day! Indeed.

 

"Do you smoke after having sex"?

"I don't know, I never looked".

 

Yes. The answer is a resounding yes. It's an unspoken law.

 

Or as if the man would not turn to her and say
I'm too old for this ****!
This ends now!!