Screenplay Cliches – Have You Had Enough Of ‘Em
Tags: cliches in film, movie clichesToday On Air with Kenny Jones – we opened up the email to answer some listener email in a segment we like to call – Ask Kenny.
The question was from Sanjana. She writes:
Kenny,
Love the show! It keeps me smiling all the way to work. Was watching a movie over the weeken that had one of the worst movie cliches ever. The phone rings at the most in opportune time to make the viewers jump.
Can you think of any other cliches in movies today?
See you on the other side!
Sanjana
Can I think of any movie cliches…HELL YES! there are waaaaaaaay to many to mention.
But some at the very top of my list include:
- the mobile with no bars (no service)
- the car that won’t start
- the door or window that’s jammed or won’t open
- the less attractive sidekick
- the bullet-less gun or good guy that can’t work a safety
believe me there is a very long and distinguished list that goes with these. Please feel free to add to the list.
there is one more I’d like to share – maybe the most overdone cliche lines in the movie industry. I think it’d be better understood with a short video. Check this out…
Are we in agreement? Is that not the most cliche line in all movie history? Can you think of another? please post!
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Cigar guy – unveiled
Tags: cigar guy, golf shot hits camera, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Rupesh Shingadia, ryder cup, tiger woodsToday On Air with Kenny Jones – we discovered a photo of an amazing photo taken at the Ryder Cup. It depicts Tiger Woods just after a shot which ended up striking a photographers camera lens.
Needless to say – Tiger wasn’t to happy at the result of this mishap. However – it has supplied endless entertainment for the rest of us. The photo was able to capture the amazing feat of a golf ball heading straight at a camera lens.
As if that wasn’t remarkable enough, there was another arresting element to the image. Standing behind Woods was a wide-eyed spectator smoking a fat cigar and wearing a Groucho Marx moustache and ginger wig. This chap has become the real story…
It might be easier to understand what we’re talking about if you took a look at these snaps yourself:
After being caught on camera at the Golf Tournament this moustachioed mystery man has become an internet sensation. Know only as “Cigar Guy” he’s been popping up in all kinds of places. But don’t take our word for it – see for yourself…
Cigar’gent Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band…Is that Cigar Guy with Abe Lincoln???
Turns out “Cigar Guy” is actually a City Analysist that loves golf and lives at home with his mum
and dad…and yes, the ‘tache is a fake. He’s Rupesh Shingadia, a 30-year-old investment analyst in the City – and a very reluctant star.
‘I am embarrassed and overwhelmed,’ he said. Never in a million years could I have expected anything like this. It is truly surreal.’
Rupesh said his costume was actually a ‘tribute’ to Spanish golfer Miguel Angel Jimenez who was famous for his moustache, long bushy red locks and signature cigar clinched in his teeth.
I think Rupesh pulls it off. So feel free to cut, copy and paste “cigar Guy” in your own snaps and email them to us at onair@radioindigo.fm
This cat has even inspired Nickelback to re-write Rockstar to honor “Internet Stars”. Have a listen here:
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Break Bra In Case of Emergency
Tags: emergency bra, emergency jockToday On Air with Kenny Jones – we came across an amazing invention that will hopefully make the world a lot safer and if not that at least a lil’ more bizarre.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Emergency Bra, an invention that won Dr. Elena Bodnar the 2009 Ig Nobel Public Health Prize, has officially hit the market. The brassiere, which quickly converts into two gas masks, is available online for 29.95. Also: There are t-shirts reading, “Emergency bra 
under here.”
(Personally, I was hoping for one reading, “Break bra in case of emergency.”)
It may sound like a joke invention, but it’s not: Bodnar studied the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and found that, as Fox News reports, “if people had had cheap, readily available gas masks in the first hours after the disaster … they may have avoided breathing in Iodine-131, which causes radiation.” She also envisions it being useful in terrorist attacks. “You have to be prepared all the time, at any place, at any moment, and practically every woman wears a bra,” she said.
That may sound paranoid, but Bodnar is also trying to have a little fun with the project. In the video below of her Ig Nobel prize acceptance speech, Bodnar has a riot of a time removing her bra on stage and demonstrating on Nobel laureates how it can be converted to a gas mask.
But what about us guys? What happens to us in such a disaster? We (or most of us anyway) don’t wear bras. Have no fear – they’ve invented a lil’ something for us as well. here’s the commerical. Have a listen…
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okay – so maybe the inventors did quite think this all the way through. but at least we’ll be safe!
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