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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Real people don't have scripts to read from.
But seriously, listen to the way people talk. It's chaotic, messy, often unclear and very inefficient. Conversations meander wildly, with dangling threads that are never concluded and often times with people talking past each other as much as to each other. If you wrote dialogue that way it would just be harder for audiences to follow and waste precious screentime.
Realistic sounding dialogue is about writing what a real person would say if they stopped to think for a minute between each statement.
I've seen films where they've left in takes where people stumbled over their words, and the overall effect was positive, I thought.
As soon as you notice this, it becomes painful every time someone delivers a long monologue without going "um" once.
My colleagues try their best but I have gained a new found hatred of the word "basically".
Ross from Friends stutters a lot. I've often wondered if the stuttering is scripted, an intentional quirk the writers chose for Ross, or if the actor naturally talks that way
It's a common technique that some actors use, I don't know what they call it, but I call it the "dub dub dub" because sometimes they say something similar to that when they're struggling for a word or pretending to struggle for a word.
Fun fact the friends show was written specifically for David Schwimmer and he was the only character who didn't have to audition because the show was written for him. He's got some serious entertainment industry connections apparently. And in the state of California for jobs that require sexual harassment prevention training every two years, Schwimmer plays a role as the manager of a company who sexually harasses a new employee. It's super cringe. And we have to watch it & pass a quiz on it every 2 years 🙄
Well, he didn't stumble over words but instead over a broken toe, but they still left it in.
Which is why Steven Spielberg's early movies were so refreshing. The overlapping dialogue of his various breakfast/dinner table scenes were a standout of his style.
Unless you happen to be Robert Altman, je suppose.