Re:First Responders Unprepared for Electric Vehicle Fires: R...
by mgkimsal on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @07:16AM
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> and in the plot in that moment you don't want to deal with "can these characters start this car".
yet that's always the most implausible part of the story. Even as a kid, I remember asking "are we the only people who take the key out of the car when we leave? everyone we see on TV seems to leave their keys in the car". If character A just took their damn keys with them... movie would have been over 20 minutes earlier!
And... in murder mysteries... or TV sitcoms... if someone just had a working cell phone, the "communication problem" (misunderstanding or missing) that's at the heart of 90% of plots would be removed and the show would be over. Would definitely make the writers have to work harder.
It might've been common in a few American cities Hollywood-adjacent post-WW2 as well, but the accepted explanation is essentially that it's Hollywood being Hollywood - probably that it's a rite of passage as a junior team member to be unable to find the keys and then have someone show you they're in the "obvious" place.
Though I suspect at this point it's a writing shortcut more then anything else: we all know it's a movie, in movie's this happens, and in the plot in that moment you don't want to deal with "can these characters start this car".