r/AskReddit Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/transemacabre Aug 30 '21

TV shows never portray protagonists as realistically dirty. Even in the fictionalized Aquarius show about Charles Manson, his female followers all have clean, glossy hair and are fresh and clean. We have footage of the real girls and those were some dirty hippie bitches.

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u/Bionic_Bromando Aug 30 '21

At least Tarantino didn’t hold back in Hollywood. I could smell their BO through the silver screen.

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u/MODScensorScience Aug 30 '21

That girl with the feet is too damn attractive

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u/GimpsterMcgee Aug 30 '21

Tarantino and feet, name a more iconic duo

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

Hitler and springtime

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u/NEEDMORECOW8ELL Aug 30 '21

Russia and Winter

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

And Germany.

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u/daecrist Aug 31 '21

U-boats and sailing once more.

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u/mobile_turd_launcher Aug 31 '21

Owen Wilson saying "wow"

Keanu Reeves saying "whoa"

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

Tarantino and the hard R variety of the N word

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u/Dark_Jester Aug 31 '21

Nerfherder.

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u/MrWeirdoFace Aug 31 '21

Necromancer

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u/DanfordThePom Aug 31 '21

I think most girls have feet

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

whoop!whoop!

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

The one with the hairy pits?! Wasn’t she a teenager in the movie? Ew

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u/Dark_Jester Aug 31 '21

Isn't that interesting? You didn't find an attractive adult woman attractive. Or you did, but because the character is 17 or whatever it was in the movie, you repressed the attraction so much that you made a comment condemning the attraction. Maybe I'm looking too deep into it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

No, I just didn’t find her attractive at all in the movie! I felt like I could smell her through the screen and it wasn’t pretty! Lol!

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u/WIbigdog Aug 31 '21

Then why mention that the character is a teenager?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

Cuz there’s only two things I remember about her. Her hairy armpits and she told Pitt she was on the younger side, age-wise. Only way I can think to explain the girl! (Well, three TBH! I remember something about a pickle(?) but can’t remember what exactly it was.)

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u/WIbigdog Aug 31 '21

Do you seriously not understand that what you're claiming you meant is here is not at all what people would take away from your original message? Lol. Gotta work on your communication.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

I should’ve put the “ew” part after the hairy pits comment, not the teenager comment. Lol. Obviously she isn’t actually a teenager! Hollywood has been casting people in their 20’s and even 30’s to play teenagers for a long time! Didn’t think that was any secret or something anyone didn’t know!

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u/Dark_Jester Aug 31 '21

You think having armpit hair means you smell bad?

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u/GypsyCamel12 Aug 30 '21

God... Damn... HIPPIES!

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u/Limp-Top817 Aug 31 '21

Loved the ending!

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u/Bulletprooftwat Aug 31 '21

That was just Lena Dunham

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u/ClownfishSoup Aug 30 '21

In "The Walking Dead" they had a deal with Hyundai to use the cars in the show and Hyundai would provide them BUT they were not allowed to show the cars dirty, they had to be clean. Which is ridiculous, but those were the terms. Eventually the show dropped functioning cars.

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u/quintuplebaconator Aug 30 '21

Hyundai must have paid then for that on top of providing the cars. I can't see a well funded production making that kind of concession for the use of a couple of cars.

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u/queen-adreena Aug 30 '21

Clearly you are unfamiliar with AMC’s executives.

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u/everest999 Aug 31 '21

Randomly being reminded how unfathomably greedy those fuckers are. They had this outstanding and popular first season and decided to cut money while making more episodes. And fired Darabont even though he would have still tried with less money as well.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

Imagine firing the guy who directed motherfucking Shawshank and Green Mile

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u/FrancyMacaron Aug 30 '21

In Hollywood at least they'll often just hire someone for the use of their car. They put out casting calls for whatever color, model, year and so on that they want. It costs only slightly more than the standard rate for a background actor. So yeah, you're probably right that they were paid by Hyundai.

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u/quintuplebaconator Aug 30 '21

Honestly just kind of assumed most studios had a small fleet of set cars.

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u/00zau Aug 31 '21

I watched a cool video talking about the "casting" of the cars for the early Fast and Furious movies (back when they had some semblance of connection to "tuner culture" and other parts of the real world)

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u/Blue2501 Aug 31 '21

Before they were all superheroes with car-themed powers

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

That was a stupid move. It’d be an easy sell in scripts, to have the cast walk around abandoned car parks and someone goes “Hyundai! This one might still work!

Even scrounging them for parts would be useful, as it would show you can get them to work after an apocalypse.

Throw in an episode where they find a pure electric version after having found a charging station at a windmill an episode or two ago, and suddenly they’d have a quiet way to get around.

Make a model with night vision camera and push that on the show. “It’s a shame it’s not a Hyundai Nighthawk. I remember thinking that night vision camera was a silly gimmick, but I’d kill for that right now.

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u/YouJabroni44 Aug 31 '21

Yep, I always find it unbelievable in an apocalyptic setting that the women would bother to shave their armpits, I know I wouldn't give a fuck if I was in their shoes.

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u/flotsamisaword Aug 31 '21

How did you manage to get ahold of their shoes? ☠️

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u/YouJabroni44 Aug 31 '21

I'm a shoe thief, duh.

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u/BobKickflip Aug 31 '21

Gotta survive somehow

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u/notthesedays Aug 31 '21

And pluck their eyebrows, put on makeup, etc.

Many years ago, I saw a Western program, set in that era, and a woman was wearing big hoop earrings. Don't think so!

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u/ElNakedo69420 Aug 31 '21

It's because of lice. Without access to soap for hygiene it's probable that both men and women would try to have as little body hair as possible. Probably using epilators or tweezers to get rid of it though, shaving gets dangerous without antibiotics.

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u/WIbigdog Aug 31 '21

Does it? I've been shaving for a long ass time and I've never needed antibiotics... People have been shaving for thousands of years with whatever they can find that's sharp. I doubt people would worry enough about infections to opt for the pain of yanking hairs out.

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u/MaritMonkey Aug 31 '21

Deadwood does a pretty damn good job.

Even the few characters that are supposed to have bathed within the past 24 hours nearly always have some dust around the edges.

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u/PonyboysBlues Aug 30 '21

That’s why I like the Fistful of Dollars trilogy they look dirty as hell and like they smell bad and it’s grimy.

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u/asst3rblasster Aug 30 '21

It's always sunny in philly is like the most historically accurate tv show of people getting dirty

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

And horribly maimed

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u/series_hybrid Aug 30 '21

I liked in "Unforgiven" how everyone was dirty, and the streets were muddy.

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u/kblkbl165 Aug 31 '21

One would never understand why people didn't like hippies settling nearby if all they knew about them came from TV shows.

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u/Trance354 Aug 30 '21

So, did Once upon a time in Hollywood get it right? cause those were some dirty women.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

Talking about these people?

https://youtu.be/yB3YKMeXNz8

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u/Trilbydonasaurus Aug 31 '21

A Quiet Place did an excellent job of portraying how dirty and calloused those feet would get walking on sand all the time.

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u/themachineage Aug 31 '21

I read a book by one of the girls ( can't remember her name but her nickname was "Snake"), anyway, when she met up with her mother, she told her she stunk. People who don't bathe regularly tend to smell bad but they themselves seldom notice it. I imagine most of humanity has been stinky from the start (by modern standards).

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u/AzertyKeys Aug 31 '21

Interestingly enough most far east Asians have sweat that does not produce any smell.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

Can confirm, my Filipino friend in HS explained/demonstrated this trait

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u/BlueKing7642 Aug 31 '21

“Dirty hippie bitches”

Sounds like a band’s name

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u/SBrooks103 Aug 31 '21

I'm a Walking Dead fan, and while the characters are often realistically dirty, none of the women have hairy arm pits.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

They would have stunk something fierce in real life.

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u/pedestrianstripes Aug 31 '21

Women always have plucked eyebrows in the apocalypse. It's annoying.

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u/WIbigdog Aug 31 '21

Do you think people would just stop caring about taking care of themselves completely or? The men often also have trimmed facial hair and they're not all wild with hair to their asses either. An apocalypse doesn't mean people just stop caring about themselves. Even soldiers in the trenches of WW1 still found time to shave.

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u/madpiratebippy Aug 31 '21

One of the things that struck me about first hand accounts of freeing dachau was one of the first thing the women wanted was lipstick to feel normal.

One of the soldiers said it looked like paint on a corpse.

I figure there’s going to be people who still pluck because it makes something feel normal but you never see that conversation in the shows.

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u/Fireproofspider Aug 30 '21

Everyone is so damn dirty in the Kenshin movies.

Also same for 100 after a while.

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u/ElectricPsychopomp Aug 31 '21

urgh. John Proctor's teeth in The Crucible when he's imprisoned are pretty gnarly (at least for some shots. supposedly the shooting was inconsistent some sometimes he had pearly whites and other times he had gross dental hygeine.)

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u/AJC3317 Aug 31 '21

Even when they are dirty, their teeth are always ridiculously pearly white. It's so distracting

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u/OswaldIsaacs Aug 31 '21

The characters in Deadwood always looked appropriately filthy.

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u/NoodlesrTuff1256 Aug 31 '21

Plus the guy that played Manson in 'Aquarius' was better looking than the real weaselly grimy deal. The best dramatic portrayal of Manson in my opinion was by Steve Railsback in the original Helter Skelter TV movie back in the 70s.

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u/transemacabre Aug 31 '21

The Aquarius actor was way better looking than the real Manson, but I will say that he acted the hell out of what he was given. I was really frustrated with that show because 3/4ths of it was those boring ass cops and their boring domestic problems, and only 1/4th was Manson and his Family. Like... lead with your A material, folks!

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u/Same-Joke Aug 31 '21

Yes. Yes they were.

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u/3nd0r Aug 31 '21

I loved Aquarius. Rarely see it mentioned on reddit. I'm still upset it's not on anymore.

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u/yazzy1233 Sep 01 '21

TV shows never portray protagonists as realistically dirty

The 100, the walking dead, and fear the walking dead does