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What would it be like for real people if everything in movies was true?

Asked by wundayatta (58722points) January 26th, 2009

All the explosions and supermen and terminators and space flight and titanic lovers, cartoon characters that do amazing and stupid things, animated toys, high school musical in your high school, the whole kit and kaboodle—it’s all true, and it’s all happening now. What would your life be like, assuming you live where you live now? How would you deal with it?

If you like, you can choose one movie as the major movie affecting you, but there is also the influence of other movies. Think of it as the movie (or movies) invading and taking over the place you live.

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MrMontpetit's avatar

I’d ask superman to fly me to mars to get away from all the madness.

dynamicduo's avatar

I would be making movies of myself winning the lottery…. but then again so would everyone else. Multiply this by a billion permutations and a billion people, and my final conclusion is that chaos would happen and the world would cease to exist, or would exist in some type of eternal limbo – how does it work when there are movies which end with the world being destroyed as we know it, and also movies that end with the world being saved at the last minute?

EnzoX24's avatar

My current girlfriend would leave me, my next one would be the love of my life. All while trying to escape from “College Musical”. Once I’m out of that craziness, my friends and I would steal the Hope Diamond, then realize it was a poor decision when we try to pawn it in a number of shops, and eventually throw it away because theres nothing you can do with it.

jfrederick's avatar

i’d be thin and perpetually 20-something.

jonsblond's avatar

My life would be animated. We would eat ratatouille all the time. We would have a house full of dalmatians. Always living in fear of being flushed away. Those singing chipmunks would have the number one song. A green ogre as a neighbor. Oh yeah, the Kung Fu master would be a panda.

fireside's avatar

I’d like to answer, but I’ve been frozen under the new ice age ever since The Day After Tomorrow

jonsblond's avatar

@fireside You were chased by the freezing?!? Best chase scene ever! ;)

cyndyh's avatar

Oh, cool. Then everyone who says they’re broke and trying to make it in the big city would have huge sprawling apartments in New York City and designer clothes. Being broke never looks so bad in the movies.

Maybe I’d get the whole thing where women are supposed to crave hundreds of pairs of stupid looking shoes and ugly overpriced handbags, too.

robmandu's avatar

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I’d’ve been trying to beat the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.

Bluefreedom's avatar

@robmandu. And just imagine how popular you would have been if you made that run in this spaceship.

syz's avatar

We’d all have had our brains eaten by zombies.

robmandu's avatar

@Bluefreedom, would it come equipped with explosive arrows instead of blasters? Because that there’s the only way one should blow up outhouses.

Bluefreedom's avatar

@robmandu. It could be outfitted with those, sure. And did you see the brush guard on the front of the ship? Great for plowing right through asteroid belts and wayward meteors. :o)

90s_kid's avatar

If spiders were really that big, and Mike Myers existed, I would first get stalked, and then die of fear. Don’t jinx anything, daloon!

aprilsimnel's avatar

I might be zapped out of existence any number of times or drowned in tidal waves or stomped by Godzilla. Hollywood filmmakers like to destroy NYC in the most frightening ways possible. On the other hand, as long as I’m in an outer borough, I’d probably be OK, but then I’d have big hair and pop gum and have a funny accent when I spoke.

Blondesjon's avatar

It would be AWSOME. We could all beat the hell out of each other 3 Stooges style with no consequences.

and women would no longer shit

NaturalMineralWater's avatar

My life is already like a movie; Groundhog Day.

RandomMrdan's avatar

I’m sure actors would be paid a hell of a lot more, and would have a low life expectation. Unless of course they only did Romantic Comedies or something of the sort.

Or….movies would be a hell of a lot more boring due to the risk factor.

Though if I could pick a movie to be real….dude, a zombie movie would be freaking intense….I’d start off by driving to kroger for supplies….bunker in my upstairs apartment, and tear out the stairs so no zombies can get up….bunker in and watch the chaos spread.

jonsblond's avatar

@RandomMrdan Would they be the super fast zombies or the super slow zombies?

RandomMrdan's avatar

well…I can’t imagine slow zombies being a problem…or even how they could outbreak much. So I’d go with Fast Zombies…as long as it didn’t take a headshot to kill them.

jonsblond's avatar

Slow zombies in Night of the Living Dead and Shaun of the Dead. I believe they were a problem. ;)

Don’t underestimate zombies, especially the slow ones!

augustlan's avatar

I could not live in that world. If all those things were not only real, but happening simultaneously, I’d be off my rocker in no time flat!

lifeflame's avatar

Anyone who isn’t a main character is in constant danger of being collateral damage, but we’d probably be consistently saved in the end in the big picture.

maybe_KB's avatar

Can you say, “SCAAARYYY”!
Think about it, every 90 minutes there’d be credits shooting pass

francescadellacruz's avatar

If any episode of Law and Order were happening right now and all the characters arrived at my door I would hope that the Lt. played by S. Epatha Merkerson would have found it necessary to come along with with Jesse Martin and Jerry Orbach, bless his soul. I would fully cooperate. If they needed to search my house, I would not ask for a warrant, but instead would “wink wink” to let them know I’m in the know. This is a TV show, right? Go on and search. Ha ha. I’d try not to act guilty, but would do something that would force them to take me back to headquarters. Cause I’d love to see headquarters. And maybe Mariska Hargitay would be there having a cup of coffee between jobs. My dog would be puzzled when I went off with these people. My cat would hide. After all, they would all be dressed like New Yorkers and my animals only see people in flannel shirts and buckskin jackets around here. I’d protest a little when Lennie Briscoe decided he had to take my hard drive. I’d ask the Lt how she found me on Google Earth when I obviously live in the woods and can’t be seen from the sky, let alone a street view. If I could get S. Epatha out of character, I’d ask her what year she graduated from Wayne State. I’d use my one phone call to let a friend know that “I’m on TV right now!!!”

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