There's no continuity in films and tv shows

When you watch a movie or tv show, you're just watching a bunch of edited scenes that have been put together to create a sequence of events. A scene that follows another scene in a movie might have been filmed before it. Even the characters reactions to other characters are pieced together to create an illusion of continuity.

Rue McClanahan once said that on Golden Girls, they would tape two shows in front of the audience. Then, the two shows would be fused together so that Blanche is talking to Dorothy but the Blanche you're seeing is from the first taping and Dorothy's reaction is from the second taping. Therefore Bea wasn't really talking to Rue in that scene, you just thought she was.

Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins never spoke to each other on The Silence of the Lambs set because they both delivered their lines to a camera. So Hannibal is talking to a camera and so is Clarice.

Here's a great example below of the illusions of movies with the set of Another Stakeout, a funny little comedy from 1993. Now that I know how it was filmed, I can't enjoy it anymore.

But OP, it is about the acting craft

Here's the scene they were filming on set as you saw it in the movie. Remember that each scene and reaction was filmed multiple times with multiple changes and then pieced together to create one big continuous scene.

Once you peek behind the curtains of reality, you see it's all one big manipulation.

I heard Hemingway sometimes wrote the ending before the middle and then, when he got to ending, went back and changed something in the beginning.

Who cares what happened to Brett and Jake knowing that?

Carol Burnett Show did tapings of each program and cobbled together the best of each. This isn't supposed to be theater. It's TV and movies, it's what they do.

Years ago I did some work as an extra, if you really want to destroy the illusion that will do it.

Carol Burnett did two tapings was what I tried to say before I accidentally deleted a word.

Did you know that in "Jumanji" (the real one with Robin Williams) there really aren't hippos and rhinos running through the streets of Keene, NH? Oh my shocked ass!

Television is such mad make-believe!

What are you bitching about, OP?

Narrative film/tv aren't documentaries. Guess what? CGI represents things that were never filmed at all! In the film world "continuity" means something you don't seem familiar with. It means if an actor has two buttons on his jacket buttoned in the scene, every shot has to have those same two buttons buttoned throughout the scene.

In lots of close up shots, the other actor in the scene, (but not on-camera) might have shot their dialogue and reactions on a different day. All it needs to do is cut together sensibly. It's called "movie magic".

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