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openRemake fixes a plot hole Film
As in title - the original work has a gaping Plot Hole or requires copious amount of Willing Suspension of Disbelief for the plot to work. A remake addresses the issue, fixing the problem with some - often minor, but important - change to the set-up or world-building and thus resolving something that was poked by fandom for decades with the original.
Edited by TropiarzopenEnoch Arden Film
Where someone is shipwrecked and presumed dead but comes back to find their partner remarried
openI don't need a guardian Film
A character tries to refuse protection from an assigned guardian (secret service, parent) only to later be attacked and in some cases saved by the guardian. Often times the protected character is comically mean to the guardian, and makes jokes at his/her expense. Despite this, after the guardian saves the protected, the guardian reveals a level of affection for the protected. This is not necessarily Bodyguard Crush. It can be a teenage girl that rebels from her parents and then regrets it, and maybe has to be saved by Papa Wolf. Often times, it's a president or official that doesn't want secret service in the way at an event, then of course, there is an attack on the president, or other principal.
Examples (Guarding Tess, The Diplomat)
openSomething that happened technically before the movie release Film
Netflix film "A House With Dynamite" events occurs in July 2025 (as long as a reenaction of the Battle of Gettysburg is taking place and is mentioned is the 162nd reenactment) so, what trope applies here? Present Day Past or Next Sunday A.D. ?
openTell him Film
I’m looking for a trope that covers this situation:
Character A is trying to convince Character B to do (or not do) something, but B won’t listen. Then A turns to Character C — who has more authority, respect, or influence over B — and says something like “Tell him!” or “You explain it to him!”

When a character is retelling a story, it cuts away to a scene that visualises the narration, and everything we see matches up , usually with the story continuing as a voiceover
If the storyteller misremembers a detail, “he was holding a fish - no wait, it was a broom” the scene will adjust in real time , with actors or props changing instantly , (sometimes with the actor looking confused as a kind of 4th wall break that the retelling is not too good)
sometimes the characters in the retelling scene will lip sync dialogue of the storyteller saying the words they remember being said, showing that everything we see is through the lens of the storyteller.