Why is it in Hollywood movies every time there is a vent or AC unit someone has fixed little ribbons on it? Is that a thing americans do? Why? The vent in this movie is close to the floor in the toilets of a train. This implies someone got on all fours ON THE FLOOR OF A TRAIN’S BATHROOM to stick those ribbons there for a reason i can’t even begin to comprehend.

  • xantoxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    421·
    6 months ago

    And usually only in movies where airflow later stops for a plot-related reason. (e.g. the life support has shut off on a space station)

    • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
      14·
      6 months ago

      Alao if the airflow atarts because it it bringing in toxic gas, or oxygen that instantly fills a room that was without enough.

    • mPony@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      Somehow I associate airflow being shut off with a turbine fan slowing and stopping. I guess due to Total Recall and OG Half Life?

    • themroc@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Actually in this movie it doesn’t matter. Something has been hidden behind that vent which the protagonist is about to findbout in a second.We will never come back to that bathroom.

        • themroc@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          I understand why they are used in movies. My question was where that came from, whether this was a thing Americans actually do irl and if that is the case why they do it.