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Live Poll: Movies With Wired Phones Used in Necessary Scenes
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In threatening situations, we grab our mobile or cell phone and call the police. Before there were mobiles and cell phones, wired phones had no affordable alternative. In many movies of the 1980s first mobiles appeared on screen. But we head for movies with wired phones or phone booths necessary function.
Which of these movies has the most interesting telephone scenes?
Call us here.
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The title was made up fast and may be improved later. It's about wired Telephones. Not dect, not mobiles, not smart phones.
The Telephone has to be a necessary part in or for the plot.
Someone phoning in the background = no!
A necessary conversation for the movie = yes.
Tsarstepan
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Technically dect (which I had to look up as that's not an accessible/particularly well-known term) AKA cordless phones are still hardwired phones.
FYC:
Green Book (2018): payphones are essential for Dr. Donald Shirley and Tony Lip to talk to their families on the road.
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) (or most Wes Anderson film). GPH has that phone network of concierges that help each other - in the direst of circumstances.
Here are some more...
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Breumaster
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3 years ago
Changed the title to:
Movies With Wired Phones Used in Necessary Scenes
Got 20 options. I'm heading for 25 options.
But if there aren't I'd consider that poll as ready to go.
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Breumaster
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25 good options reached.
If you wanna give me another suggestion, it gotta has to be real good.
Otherwise ready to go!
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Cell phone is just another name for the same thing. And they also appeared in movies in the 80s, such as Wall Street.
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Breumaster
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I just read that these "mobiles" like in Wall Street were based on another technique. They used analog radio set technique and were connected to analog telephone systems. They were not mobiles like the one we know today, because the technique wasn' able to support the masses of people. In G 1992 the first GSM able phone was built. (GSM = Global System for Mobile Communications). That was the birth of mobile communication in Germany. I don't know, if these standard came earlier in USA. That's why I picked the 90s. I surely knew about Wall Street, but didn't count it.
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rubyfruit76
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FYC:
Lots of traditional, wired phone conversations in Thelma & Louise (even a few pay phone scenes) and a few are very memorable and all are key to the story.
Glengarry Glen Ross (same)
Phone Booth (same; even pictured on the poster)
Dial M for Murder
Good idea, btw, Breu! : )
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rubyfruit76
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May I suggest a few small edits to one sentence of the intro?
In many movies of the 1980s, the first mobiles appeared on screen but here we head for movies with wired phones or phone booths in a necessary function.
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rubyfruit76
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Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/D5utEdoxkd4/?ref_=po_ho Cheers!
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