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> I'm always curious about what is featured in entertainment vs reality. I always feel that way with the jobs that TV and movie characters are assigned. Enter
by lastofthemojito 5y ago
> I'm always curious about what is featured in entertainment vs reality.
I always feel that way with the jobs that TV and movie characters are assigned. Entertainment jobs are vastly over-represented (as so much of art is somewhat autobiographical). Straightforward, well understood jobs like doctors, cops and teachers are pretty well represented. Then those jobs that often require further explanation whenever a stranger hears that job title are much less represented - how many actuaries or data analysts or logistics managers do you see in film? Approximately none, but I think more of them exist in the real world than all of the screenwriters you see on TV.
- klipt 5y agohttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MostWritersAreWriters https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MostWritersAreWr... > "Bad books on writing and thoughtless English professors solemnly tell beginners to Write What You Know, which explains why so many mediocre novels are about English professors contemplating adultery."
- nitrogen 5y agoThe dad in Christmas Vacation was a food chemist developing a non-nutritive varnish to make cereal stay crunchy longer, but the way that line is delivered makes it clear it's mocking the job.
- akiselev 5y agoI think the screenwriter was making a very obscure joke, not mocking the job. You can use varnish to preserve dry baked goods for display like in a bakery or for a Hollywood prop.