When people are drinking takeaway coffee on TV and in movies

[Bretrick]

Almost 100% of the time the cup is empty.
A giveaway is the hollow sound when the cup is placed on a solid surface.
Fooling no one.
Yeah, I know, frivolous observation/post, but

 

[Blessed]

I believe you, I don't drink coffee but if I did I would buy the cup only. Use it for home brewed coffee, rinse and reuse. Some people do it to look "cool". Look at me, I can afford it. I could pay a car payment with the money some people spend on coffee.

There are people that spend hundreds of dollars a month at these places. They go 3 times a day, at $5 a pop.

 

[Michael Z]

I guess I never noticed that. But in our local community theater, the fake food props were quite fake looking.

 

[Michael Z]

What I noticed in the Andy Griffith Show episode “Convicts at Large” is Floyd nursing that banana for a good ten minutes where as normally it is eaten in a minute or less, but the effect is convincing!

 

[Dr. Jekyll]

I don't remember the name, but this Hollywood prop man pops up in my Facebook feed from time to time with really interesting looks at props, how they are made, how they are used and the tricks they use to appear real.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

Another movie thing that irks me is two people, siting at a bar ,are drinking a coke or beer. When the camera is on A, the glass is full, when the camera is on B the same glass is half full. Back to A- full glass. Back to B-half full. Back to A- full,....... on and on .

 

[ChiroDoc]

Almost 100% of the time the cup is empty.
A giveaway is the hollow sound when the cup is placed on a solid surface.
Fooling no one.
Yeah, I know, frivolous observation/post, but

Yes, I've noticed that. The other thing that makes drinking a hot beverage phony in a film or series is that when one character hands a freshly made and capped cup to another character, they immediately tip it halfway back and swallow-- like it was a half empty cold soft drink.

A freshly capped cup of coffee or tea is very hot. They'd have to wait until it cooled before they took a sip. And even then they'd only tip it back a little.

I see that again and again in either U.S. or Brit series. I wish I didn't notice things like that...

A similar not-true-to-life scenario is when someone orders or is served an alcoholic beverage. It's always just the booze in a glass. No ice, no mixer. It's exceedingly rare for people to drink booze that way. Of course the directors don't want to use ice because it would rattle, and possibly cause audio interference. But it's phony.

 

[Bretrick]

Another movie thing that irks me is two people, siting at a bar ,are drinking a coke or beer. When the camera is on A, the glass is full, when the camera is on B the same glass is half full. Back to A- full glass. Back to B-half full. Back to A- full,....... on and on .

Continuity issues abound in so many movies.
How do the Script Supervisors keep their jobs?

 

[Judycat]

The number of takes of a certain scene is what is at fault. When I was a kid, a movie company came to our town. Some times it took all day for one scene to be done to the satisfaction of the director. I decided then I didn't want to be an actor or have anything to do with the film industry.