Random Cliché #3 Tape recorder

Tape recorders

Intolerable Cruelty (2003) George Clooney, divorce attorney

Often, especially when someone's investigating something or someone, he or she will record his or her thoughts on a tape-recorder. I'm not saying this is stupid, but who does that?

The Sessions (2012) Helen Hunt, professional sex surrogate

If someone use this method or know someone who does, please inform me! Also, tell me what you do with the material.

Random Cliché #2 Screaming Women

In old movies, women often have the most unnatural exaggerated scream, like in this movie for example: The Black Cat (1934)

Here's an example, at 4:28 into the video:

I'm really glad that this is not used in movies today. Except maybe in some really bad horror movies.

Random Cliché #1 - Macs

The majority of movie characters uses Mac

Law Abiding Citizens

Apple seem to spend a lot of money on product placement in movies. According to the statistics on my other blog, Top 5 films, 12% of my visitors uses mac, 5% Iphone and 2% iPad, while 73% uses Windows. In movies, I'd say macs stands for at least 80% of the computer usage.