Foot Chases

The other day I was watching this terrible movie, Knowing, starring Nicholas Cage. It was really bad, like just as bad as Wicker Man, Bangkok Dangerous, Ghost Rider, National Treasure: Book of Secrets and pretty much the majority of his movies. Anyway, in this terrible movie there's a scene where Nicholas Cage is chasing a dude and he's yelling at people to "stop that man!" We've seen this scene in tons of movies. Usually a good guy is chasing a bad guy, and for some reason the bad guy is faster, more agile, and better at running through unrealistically crowded sidewalks. Anyway, the good guy will usually shout out something like "Someone stop him!" In most movies if they yell this line an unsuspecting bystander will take down the bad guy. Just like in Superbad when McLovin "tackled" that old guy in the restaurant. Anyway, these are movies. As we should know by now, movies are fake. Some people tend to not realize that, or there are those people who have bigger issues with the more "realistically likely to happen" situations in movies than the ones that are so far from reality. We all know people like that, someone will take Spiderman movies as better representing reality than say, Knocked Up because "dude, a girl that hot would never bang an ugly dude like that." Oh, right, but a nerd who works for a newspaper is definitely more likely to get bitten by a mutant spider which then gives him the ability to have superpowers.

Anyway, sorry I got off topic, back to my main point regarding the foot chase scenes in flicks. Whenever a bad guy is stopped by some random bystander it irks me a little because I think this is not a very good representation of what would happen in real life. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I know for a fact I would not stop someone running full tilt, particularly if he was being chased by another dude whose rocking street clothes. If it was a few cops chasing the guy, I could potentially see my self sticking my foot out to trip the guy, but thats only if the cops are in uniform. Otherwise, I'd just go about my business. "Heyyy, stop that guy!" Umm, no thanks. Plus, imagine if you did stop the guy from running and it turns out he was just running for his life because the dudes chasing him were crazy, insane murderers. You'd feel pretty bad and probably lose some sleep over the fact you were responsible for someone's death. I also realized something, if I was chasing someone running full speed I wouldn't be able to properly pronounce every word I say. Instead of saying "Stop that guy!" it'd probably sound like "stupid gay!" Or I'd just say something that didn't make sense like "Aahh, aaaah fffuccahh" Much like the girl did in Happy Gilmore when he got jacked by the car. So the next time your watching a movie and there's a foot chase scene involved, just think to yourself "Would I stop this guy from running?" I already know my answer is no, and if your anything like me, yours will be too. Wellp, that's it. Fuck the Eagles.