tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post8084150300072896923..comments2024-03-09T05:53:59.542-05:00Comments on Oz and Ends: Please Hang Up and Dial AgainUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-45043434221653596132009-10-16T20:25:12.130-05:002009-10-16T20:25:12.130-05:00Back when there were actual live telephone operato...Back when there were actual live telephone operators, pumping the hook switch would make a light blink on the switchboard, so the operator would come on. Then you could say, “Operator, we’ve been cut off!” So that action did make sense—many decades ago. <br /><br />Good point about most movie cell phone rings also lagging behind real life. Though there was an episode of <i>The Office</i> built around Andy’s annoying ringtone. I suppose that using a cliché “cell phone ring” spares us viewers half a second of thinking, “What’s that sound? Oh, it must be someone’s cell phone. Is it <i>my</i> cell phone? Did I really pick ‘Take On Me’ as a ringtone?”J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-64913474869254473902009-10-16T18:31:08.886-05:002009-10-16T18:31:08.886-05:00Two more occurred to me right away (I see the firs...Two more occurred to me right away (I see the first one is mentioned in the "Movie Clichés" link you referenced):<br />On the screen, when a person suspects that they've been cut off, the first thing they do is to pump the hook switch rapidly up and down several times. Who does that in real life? All it would accomplish is to ensure that the call is cut off if it wasn't before.<br /><br />On the screen, everybody has only one cell phone ring tone: brrrring! You'd think that ring tones would be varied to suggest something about the character. It's as though all the characters in the story dressed exactly the same.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com