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What Will Replace Payphones/Phonebooth Scenes?

posted 10 years ago by tdl797
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Watching Terminator and Arnold goes to a payphone and looks up Sarah Connor in the phonebook. Now there are mostly no payphones. So what does Terminator do now? Google the info?
Pull off the tip of his pinky and have a USB port? Probably some kind of wireless connection.

Even Dumb & Dumber wouldn't have a scene where the guy gets punched through the phonebooth glass.

Lots of thrillers won't have the mystery person calling from the payphone to be anonymous.

So what replaces these types of scenes, or is there no counterpart?

[–] beernpizzalover 10 years ago

No one in the theaters will notice: probably because they're too distracted by texting on their smartphones!

[–] tdl797 10 years ago

Fair enough.
I forget if they addressed this in the new Superman - he used to change in phonebooths a lot.

[–] Brommabo 10 years ago

Phone booths have been practically gone for quiet some time already I think.

A terminator nowdays would probably just have wifi connected to his brain.

[–] saul_rothman 10 years ago

Actually, the Christopher Reeves Superman (80's, I think) already addressed phone booths - which had just switched from being enclosed glass boxes to these open plastic egg-shaped deals. Since the phone wasn't private, Clark Kent raced into a rotating doorway and did a quick change there.

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[–] Strannger (2007) 8 years ago

It's a sad lose but their will be ways around it. Going to the library to look info up.

[–] slimone (7996) 8 years ago

Depends on when the movie is supposed to take place. Before 1980. . .phone booths. After that mobile phones.

[–] ImAComputer (244) 2 years ago

Something something AI