Movie Clichés

In all high school or college classrooms, the teacher or professor will always be interrupted in mid-sentence by the end-of-class bell.

High Schools are always either in the middle of a city or a car ride away from the beach.

In any type of sport movie, a player on the field can look up into a crowd of 1 billion and immediately spot their loved one.

In any movie where "something" has happened and villagers come to look at it, they always decide to "go for help". The most expendable member of the group is left to "keep an eye on it", and supplied with a weapon or signaling device "in case something happens". Said member ALWAYS responds: "What could happen?" This is a certain signal that he will die, gruesomely, within 2 minutes.

The bad guy is the foreigner.
Corollary: the foreigner is the guy who speaks English with an English accent

You're very likely to survive any battle in any war, unless you show someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.

Every army platoon has at least one, usually black, member who can play the harmonica.

Be sure to leave your important tapes, such as the one labeled "Incriminating evidence against Senator Smith showing him taking $24million in bribes and then fondling the drug lord's daughter" or your computer floppy disks labeled "All the nuclear launch codes are on here" where they can be easily found.

All characters keep detailed news clippings of important events in their lives, particularly those events that must be painful to recall, such as the loss of the character's immediate family due to their own negligence. NB: If the news report would have come out while the character was in jail or on the run, all the more reason for the character to have kept it intact.

All movie mothers will prepare a breakfast, usually consisting of scrambled eggs, bacon, etc. Dad and the kids will invariably arrive at the table 30 seconds before Dad has to leave for the office and the kids have to catch the school bus. Each will have time only for a sip of coffee/juice and/or one bite of toast. There must be enough food left over in these homes to feed an emerging nation!

The hero will always have a small trickle of blood in the right corner of his mouth after a fight. His lip will never be split in the middle, and his upper lip will always be invulnerable. He will wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, then look at it. If his face displays any other injury, it will usually be a small abrasion on his right cheekbone. He will wear a band-aid on this for one day, after which it will be miraculously healed.

People never get out of the house when there is obvious danger there (ghosts, murderers).

People who hear something weird outside will go OUT to look, even if they know there's a homicidal maniac on the loose.

Any apartment in Paris will have a view of the Eiffel Tower.

Only men are alcoholics. Any hopeless alcoholic can quit drinking when faced with an important challenge. The instant the alcoholic stops drinking, all his faculties return and he faces no annoying withdrawals.

People never cough, sneeze, blow their noses, or show any other symptoms of being in less than perfect health.
The only exception to the above is when they're dying. A cough is a symptom of terminal illness.
Corollary: if blood is slowly dripping out of the side of a victim's mouth when they are lying down, they are dying.

Pedestrians in Hollywood have the world's best reactions, so don't worry if you have to drive down a sidewalk. Mr Pappodopolus is quite used to having his fruit cart smashed, and despite his gesticulations and curses, he always manages to get out of the way in time.

There are always people carrying around large sheets of glass on the street during a car chase.

Whenever anyone knocks out anyone else and takes their clothes, it's always a flawless fit.

Every time we’re introduced to a police precinct house, one or more colorfully dressed prostitutes are being brought in while bickering with their arresting officer.

If a hero is divorced (and most are), he’ll have some contact with his ex-wife who will still have strong feelings for him even if she’s remarried.

Native Americans invariably have mystical knowledge that can obtusely predict the future, or have a fundamental understanding of all things in nature .

When a phone line is broken unexpectedly, someone will always frantically press the phone cradle button and yell “Hello? HELLO!?” with an emphasis on the second hello.

When someone yells “You never backed away from everything in your life, now fight!!” while giving someone CPR or working to resuscitate a stopped heart.