I recently
discovered this common
movie fuckup--not a
problem with movies, but rather a
common mistake that people always make in movies.
The
mistake is this: The
bad guys tell the
main character that if he/she blabs anything (to the
wife, the
sidekick, whoever), then the bad guys will
kill that person.
Inevitably, the main character keeps their mouth shut, and
nine times out of ten the bad guys end up
sneaking up on the threatened character and either
kidnapping or
killing them anyway.
Writers often set things up this way on
purpose, to give the
bad guys something bad to do and a
foreshadowing that they'll probably do it.
Think about that in
real life--somebody tells you that if you
warn your friend about a situation, they'll
kill your friend. Do you
tell him?
Absolutely! You
ALWAYS tell someone if their
life is in
potential danger, for one reason: It's
much harder to kill or kidnap someone whose
guard is up. In the movies, the bad guys are always
easily trapping the
unsuspecting woman as she walks
calmly down the
alley. But would that
go off as
flawlessly if the woman had been
told that her
life might be in danger? Hell no! Now she's
sneaking through the
alleys, taking a
different route than she normally would, and chances are she's
packing. I know I would be.
I've already had a
discussion with my
husband, wherein we both agreed that
any potentially life-threatening issue must be
clearly stated to the party in danger, EVEN if knowing itself puts them, technically, in
more danger. I urge you all to make the
same agreement with your
friends and family, otherwise, how do you know you're not being
stalked right now?