Well The problem with films and TV shows is reality sometimes comes off less real than fiction.
The common man finds it difficult to believe that men and women, just like them, can react with precision and decisiveness in the heat of battle, amidst such chaos. To see soldiers react "properly" as they were trained would seem tottally hollywood to them. Because they wouldn't be able to do the same. To see a well trained section go into action is like watching a well greased machine. It's inhuman. They can't understand that human beings are capable of that, much like the reaction people have to buddhist monks doing kung fu or really good skateboarders. Anyone is capable of doing it with proper training. With it, even the lowly bookworm/D&D nerd could do amazing things with a rifle. Tha'ts the point of entire military's structure.
True to life in film and TV dramas require that the audience identify completely with the emotions felt by the characters. otherwise your simply watching a documentary. A regular joe cannot understand what real soldiers experience when in combat The body does one thing but the mind does another. How do you portray that on TV. How do you get your audience to think that deeply. You don't. You make the soldiers on the show act the way a civillian in that situation would. That way viewers can identify with the show and feel like they understand what war is about.
That is of course unless your talented......
The common man finds it difficult to believe that men and women, just like them, can react with precision and decisiveness in the heat of battle, amidst such chaos. To see soldiers react "properly" as they were trained would seem tottally hollywood to them. Because they wouldn't be able to do the same. To see a well trained section go into action is like watching a well greased machine. It's inhuman. They can't understand that human beings are capable of that, much like the reaction people have to buddhist monks doing kung fu or really good skateboarders. Anyone is capable of doing it with proper training. With it, even the lowly bookworm/D&D nerd could do amazing things with a rifle. Tha'ts the point of entire military's structure.
True to life in film and TV dramas require that the audience identify completely with the emotions felt by the characters. otherwise your simply watching a documentary. A regular joe cannot understand what real soldiers experience when in combat The body does one thing but the mind does another. How do you portray that on TV. How do you get your audience to think that deeply. You don't. You make the soldiers on the show act the way a civillian in that situation would. That way viewers can identify with the show and feel like they understand what war is about.
That is of course unless your talented......
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And the first vehicle that they shot up at the checkpoint having the passenger window down in one scene, then up in another...........even the dead get hot in the desert I suppose.......
