Actors not sweeping correctly when somebody broke a glass or somebody’s ashes were spilled on the floor or something like that is infuriating hahha.
They’re always having some serious conversation with heavy relationship complications, but whoever has the broom is literally tapping at the mess on the floor because they know that the production crew is going to clean it up for them after the shoot, so they, the ac-tors, don’t have to actually sweep the mess into the dustbin.
I f****** hate that.
Shaving. Every single time someone is shaving in any movie or show, they always make a few random strokes on one side of the face, maybe a little on the chin, and then they always stop halfway through. Gets my OCD up. Then to make thing worse, they always wipe up the rest of the shaving cream with a towel and casually toss the towel to the side. Covered in shaving cream. With a half-shaved face. Monsters.
I’m glad you added the second half, I immediately started replying after reading the first sentence that the worst part about shaving in movies is when they wipe off the rest of the shaving cream without finishing shaving, hahah.
Absolutely Psychotic.
Similarly, toothbrushing.
This silliness exists because filming actors is hard. Like how almost nobody eats, in movies. It is a serious and committed choice for an actor to genuinely consume food… because they’re gonna have to do it a dozen times, whilst delivering dialog, and hope nobody (including them) screws up or half-asses it.
And when they do show an actor eating, it’s usually to convey a particular tone. Like Denethor. So: why is the actor shaving, in the first place? Generally the answer is not an answer that requires putting the entire process onscreen. So there’s this shorthand that’s not so much unnoticed as accepted. It’s as much a part of the fiction as the fourth wall. Audiences don’t question how everyone speaks clearly all the time, or how actions occur perfectly framed to a nonexistent camera. We just get the idea that someone is shaving, and ideally derive some characterization from the details of the scene, without having to watch an actor pantomime away every last drop of foam with a shiny squeegee.
You’ll notice a lot more like this in foreign films because you’re not inculcated to their tropes. There’s some jump scares in Japanese horror that become kind of silly when the ghost is literally just wearing a handkerchief over their face. It serves the same purpose as Jacob Marley showing up in a tattered suit.