First draft of Ted talk

             you've probably watched the end of a movie exactly like this, narration is played at the begining and at the end with new meaning. Then the main character says something about how life is now good and the world is all rainbows and unicorns. This is a common cliche in family or romance movies. Cliches are the bane of a movie goers existence because they are unoriginal and lame. The last thing you wanna see when you pay 20+ dollars to go see a movie is a unoriginal and lame one. Many people just get annoyed when they see a cliche. They don't think about it and move on. But what if cliches had a bigger part of our life then anyone seems think.

           What do you know about guns? Unless your someone who owns a gun you probably don't know much about them but what you do know comes from media. And which media uses more guns than any other? Movies. What people know about guns, how they fire, the sounds they make, the amount of bullets they have, are all movie cliches. Why is it a movie cliche? Cause it's pretty much all false information. Many people would think that they could shoot a gun indoors but if you ever did you'd probably suffer hearing loss for quite a while. 

           How about other countries? What do you know about Russian people? Is the image that comes to mind, a alcoholic who's big and burly and also is an evil henchman? That's what I think of when I hear about Russians. This stereotype comes from action movie cliches about Russians. It's interesting to note how if you started talking about black stereotypes as true you'd be a racist but I've never heard anyone get upset about a Russian stereotype. But why? It's because cliches in movies desensitize us to it. We become accustomed to seeing it therefor we A. Think it's true and B. Think it's acceptable.
           What about mental illness? Moives love to potray someone as mentally unstable, crazy, and a sociopath. What they usually show are terrible charactures of actually mentally ill people. Many people are scared of those deemed as such for this very reason, they think that they'll hurt them because they are crazy. It really couldn't be further from the truth, while mental patients can be violent, they are far more likely to hurt themselves before they hurt you. While revealing that the main villain is unhinged can be a dramatic twist, I don't think their characters could come close to a true mental illness. 

           Several things you'd probably never think about because of your supposed knowledge may infact be false. Movies while the last place you should find actual knowledge are often accepted as to be true if only because it comes from movies. The point of movies is to draw you into the screen, into its world and thus we usually believe what we see when it's an especially good movie. Yet even when it's not, one movie's cliche is probably in another and slowly we grow accustomed to seeing it and believing it to be true. What I ask of all of you is to question where your knowledge comes from, if it be from a movie or a textbook and to question wether this knowledge is right or wrong.