I was wondering if there are any movies based on what you do for a living.
I'm still unemployed at the moment but my last job was as a security guard which I worked for quite awhile.
"Armed & Dangerous" with John Candy & Eugene Levy is the only security guard film I can think of off the top of my head.
What do you do for a living and can you think of any films where the stars worked at the same type of job you do or where the film revolves around your particular profession?
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I would have to say that Office Space relates to my job the most. The pure dislike of the boss, the annoying people, etc. Clerks would also be another film that relates slightly to my job. Stupid customers, asking stupid questions. Getting stuck working on your days off. The frustration of working instead of going to college (changing soon).
Hackers also slightly relates, being as most of us here enjoy a little bit of hacking. Some of the workers here (not me) actually log into their home computers from here and hack while at work.
Also, if there are any tech support films that anyone can think of, let me know.
The movie that comes to mind is "One hour Photo". I am a cashier/photo tech at a drug store. When I compliment a customer about how good their photos turned out..I mention that I am not anything like Sye the photo guy. E.
I'm a software developer by profession (R4H Software (http://www.cybermesa.com/~joconnor/r4hsoftware)) There have been a lot of movies depicting my career in various ways, none very accurately that I can think of.
Ummm...The Horse Whisperer...ewww
Thanks for the thought, Ash, now I'll be obsessed all day.
I don't think I've ever seen any movies about postal workers, other than THE POSTMAN, which I haven't seen and isn't really about a postal worker anyway [I did read the book.]
I guess any movie about factory workers would substitute in my case...it's basically the same.
When I saw that movie OFFICE SPACE I just couldn't understand what those people had to complain about...just about everyone I work with would kill to be in their situation, but I guess it's just a class thing.
Other movies that have Security Guards in them are DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS and HALLOWEEN 2.
Can't think of any based on law librarians, though the chick in The Mummy was a librarian.
>I don't think I've ever seen any movies about postal workers, other than THE
POSTMAN
Dear God (http://imdb.com/title/tt0116059/) - Postal workers start reading, and answering the letters that are addressed to God.
I'm a CPA. I work for a consulting firm. I don't think a movie about my profession would be very exciting. In fact, the only way I maintain my sanity is by going home and watching movies to escape from reality!
Forgot all about DEAR GOD.
At Christmas I believe postal workers do actually read some of the letters to Santa and sometimes help out when the kid is from a needy family.
I work as a lab tech for an orthodontics firm
I don't recall any movie about a person who makes braces going nuts or anything.
But if they ever do they can always come to where I work for research
BTW should anyones kids need braces make sure the dentist uses TP products and keep me working
I'm a receptionist...can't think of any movies featuring a receptionist as the lead character. Whenever my profession appears in a movie, it's usually to greet the main character and talk exposition with them, or alternate the nemesis that Trouble has arrived, then the receptionist either leaves for the day or gets iced by the mutant killer alien cyborg out gunning for the main character and/or the nemesis.
I don't have a job but I'm making my own comic book (not being published) and there has been a "Tales from the Crypt" episode where a comic book artist's monster comic come to life because he's started taking these pills, (what kind of pills were those, I wonder?"
-the first rule of fat club-
I worked my way through my undergrad program doing bail enforcement ala MIDNIGHT RUN.
Now, I teach high school social sciences and there are a thousand movies about that.
Working Girl?
No Respiratory Therapist movies that I know of, although an "Inhalation therapist" figured in an episode of ER, with Benson having a fling with one--didn't last long, as I recall. Figures.
How about the Ken Russell film, WHORE?
Let's see...I run an underground music venue, so maybe Suburbia or The Decline of Western Civilization? I dunno. Some punk movie.
I also work at a motel sometimes. Motel Hell? Mountaintop Motel Massacre? The Shining?
I teach at a community college....Zombie University....
I'm a transcriber for some lawyers....hmmm....Secretary?
Office Space..hands down.
Although it isn't the fax machine we want to take into the field and kick the crap out of..it's the copier (and the boss..hehe)
"Clockwatchers" captured my temp days pretty good
Can't think there are any movies revolving around the health insurance industry.
Come to think of it nothing really matches my last job either which I helped run a weather business spending a good deal of my free time in the day going to movies.
I guess that's why I like movies like The Matrix. From the mundane 9-5 to saving the world. Most of the time my real life doesn't feel so real either. Where's my pill?
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OFFICE SPACE...i worked for the international world dominating german company known as Siemens as a technical writer. i wrote computer and user manuals. we had "TPS" reports out the yin yang (had to account for all of our time during the day, even time spent writing down our time) and it only kept getting worse. which is why i left and wound up as a teacher's aid for at-risk HS students. now i'm a newspaper reporter.
Hey! You didn't say they had to be good movies. But, Cocktails best fits my profession. However, I liked Cocktails, and its the movie that motivated me to be a Bartender.
I work at an ice cream shop, there are movies about people who drive ice cream trucks, but I like to consider myself above that.
I could say I'm a college student because I spend more time at school than work, but there are too many movies about college students.
Well, being a subway conductor, the only movie I can think of is Money Train. I did work as a security guard before my current job, but there are lots of movie with thoses guys.
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I work for Connexions, a sort of catch-all plus Careers service for young people. Any film based on our work would be repetitious, boring and depressing. As I once half-joked about referring young people to training schemes to get qualified, we send the unemployable to the incompetent in search of the unattainable.
Still, if any agents are looking for greying, cynical, large males approaching middle age, I'm your man.
i'm unemployed [sorta] at the moment and i can think of many adam sandler films that involve that.
i also referee basketball, and can only think of some movie with billy crystal in it that had him being a referee, and calling no score on a buzzer shot by shaq or someone. so i'll shut up [billy crystal is only good in some stuff, alot, along with the movie i mentioned, isn't too great]
we send the unemployable to the incompetent in search of the unattainable.
Sounds like a variation on my signature :)
ErikJ wrote:
> I work as a lab tech for an orthodontics firm
> I don't recall any movie about a person who makes braces going
> nuts or anything.
> But if they ever do they can always come to where I work for
> research
>
> BTW should anyones kids need braces make sure the dentist uses
> TP products and keep me working
>
Hey, there is the Whole Nine Yards. fun movie. Involves a dentist Matthew Perry
jmc wrote:
> I don't think I've ever seen any movies about postal workers,
> other than THE POSTMAN, which I haven't seen and isn't really
> about a postal worker anyway [I did read the book.]
>
I don't know, David Arquette did postmen a great disservice with his movie See Spot Run.
Being a college student, I am gglad to point at my life as Animal House... oh I wish.
Well, I have 2 movies I can name. I've worked as a dresser in the theater and there is the movie The Dresser with Tom Courtenay and Albert Finney. Currently, I'm a photography major, and the only two photography movies I can think of right now are The Eyes Of Laura Mars (curiously one that I haven't even seen), and Funny Face where Fred Astaire plays a fashion photographer loosely based on Richard Avedon (who really at the time was quite a young man).
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OMG! My dad is a dental tech with his own lab (he specializes in crowns and bridges), and I think a dark comedy about a dental lab would be freaking twisted. My dad has tons of bad stories about the lab and office antics that went on when he was working for others during the '70s and early '80s. Hell, he still has to deal with some idiot dentists.
There's also a photog movie with Jane Fonda in it. 1960s, I believe. I've seen snippets of it, can't remember the title, and nothing on imdb rings a bell.
I'm a police officer and I long for the day when a movie is made about my profession. It doesn't seem right the way Hollywood has neglected law enforcement careers in its story lines.
I have tons of ideas about police officer movies, if only Hollywood were interested. They could maybe make a flick about a cop who is...i don't know...on the edge, and breaks all the rules, yet never gets fired or even faces a board of inquiry. Or maybe make a film about two cops who don't like each other at first due to their clashing personalities, then become the best of buddies through shared hardship. These are all refreshing ideas which really deserve to be filmed....at least once.
A thought - Cube?
A bunch of people stuck together day in and day out, wondering how they got there, each driving the other completely mad, trying to survive and get the hell out.
hehe..sorry - was having a moment there
I clean...um, Leon
NO!
No no no no!
A scary film about anything dental - are you kidding? Dentists are scary enough already, thank you!
(Sticks tongue in molar cavity and breaks into cold sweat)
Can't believe I didn't notice this post till now...
Alright, first thing, I know of a film about dentists that could suit you, so here it goes, "Novocaine" (2001), starring Steve Martin, who also played a sadistic dentist in "Little Shop of Horrors". I don't like going to the dentist, but if I ever see him replaced by Martin, I'm running.
About my job, I don't know of any films about translators, but there are a hell of films about teachers. My favourites, for sheer stupidity, are "The substitute" and "The Principal".
My sis also would be on the group that works in an office, but rather than feeling identified with "Office Space", she prefers tings like the TV series "Working" or the "Dilbert" comic strip (check out www.dilbert.com). She even stopped reading "Dilbert" because she said it was too faithful to reality.
Scariest dentist scene in a movie:
The marathon man
>About my job, I don't know of any films about translators,
A bit of a stretch but how about The Art of War? One of the main characters was a translator.
>I don't like going to the dentist, but if I ever see him replaced by Martin, I'm
>running.
Or Corbin Bernsen.
JohnL wrote:
> >About my job, I don't know of any films about translators,
>
> A bit of a stretch but how about The Art of War? One of the
> main characters was a translator.
Also try the crap Disney film Atlantis. The Hero is a linguist!!!!
Ever seen EVIL DEAD?
Yeah, good movie.
Zarkorr! The Invader is about your average postal worker.
It is almost worth watch.
As for me I have 100's of movies made about my job.
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