Indiana Jones has never given out his phone number in a
movie. Nor has Batman, nor Princess
Leia.
Okay, Princess Leia didn’t have a mobile phone. They don’t seem to have been invented in
the galaxy far, far away in Star Wars.
Maybe you can’t get a good signal on the death star.
But Batman could have a mobile phone, couldn’t he? It would be very useful as a way of keeping
in touch with Robin. But you never
see him giving out his number.
And in fact no character in a Hollywood movie ever tells
another character their phone number. In
order to be realistic, the phone number would have to have the correct number
of digits. So a real person might
have that phone number. And after the
movie finishes... suddenly the poor person would get thousands of calls from
people asking, “Hello, is Indiana Jones there?”
Sadly for one rickshaw driver, the Bangladeshi movie
industry doesn’t seem to have realised this.
According to a news article I read today, a real phone
number was accidentally used in a Bangladeshi movie. The most famous and popular actor in
Bangladesh was playing the romantic lead, and his character gave the number to
his girlfriend.
In the real world, a rickshaw driver suddenly got 500 calls
in five days from female fans of the actor.
The rickshaw driver said that he couldn’t change his phone number in
case his customers were unable to contact him.
And he is suing the actor, hoping to get £45,000 in damages.
I just wonder if the rickshaw driver, instead of complaining
about the calls, could have gotten some benefit from them? He got 500 calls from women obsessed with
this actor. And let’s face it – they
can’t be very smart. I mean, they don’t
seem to have been able to tell the difference between movies and the real world. “What do you mean that this isn’t the number
of Indiana Jones? I heard Indiana say it
in the movie!”
Couldn’t the rickshaw driver have said something like, “Yes,
this is Indiana Jones. But I’m always being
bothered by my fans so I have disguised myself as a humble
rickshaw driver. I would love to go on a
date with you. But don’t be surprised if
I look and sound nothing like I do in the movies. And you’ll have to pay for the dinner, too. If a poor rickshaw driver was seen paying for
a gorgeous meal, it would break the disguise.”
Time to hang up.
Vocabulary:
a galaxy – a group of many stars and planets
to keep in touch with someone – to stay in contact with
someone
a digit – as several letters together can make a word,
several digits (0, 1, 2 etc.) can make a larger number
a rickshaw – a vehicle pulled by a person
to be obsessed – to like or think about something so much
that it becomes an illness
to be bothered – to be inconvenienced; to be made to suffer
slightly
to disguise oneself – to change one’s appearance in order
not to be recognised
humble – in this sentence, humble means of low social rank
or low importance
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