Sure, playing chess needs intelligence, dedication, and good chess players are smarter than an average person. But it’s waaaay exaggerated in movies. I’m a math researcher, and in any movie, my department will be full of chess geniuses. But in reality, only about 10% of them even play chess.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Then you’ve got the Hallmark movie they’ve remade 90,000 times now, where the women are usually some kind of lawyer or executive or something, who travels to a small town likely where she was raised for some contrived reason only to find what she really needs: Some stuffed flannel with designer stubble.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      1·
      3 days ago

      I want that in the next satire. A business card with

      Angelina Jolie

      Some kind of executive

      Or lawyer

      on it

        • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
          1·
          3 days ago

          I remember a sign from The Simpsons.

          Legitimate Italian Businessmen’s Club.

          Also from that episode “It’s an Italian American Mexican stand-off!”