When you just watch a show or movie, do you remember literally every scene and piece of dialogue?
I’m lucky if I remember ANY of the dialogue.
No, and this is not common. It’s something like a photographic memory. I think there’s a more accurate term for it.
Five years ago I beat someone like that in a test. We weren’t tested against each other, per se, but this young woman (she was less than half my age) could visualise the text we were taught from. However, she relied upon this her whole life and lacked the critical thinking the rest of us developed to compensate for the gap in what we forgot and what we’d learned. So for each test question, in her mind she’s reading the source material and taking answers from it, but anything that required you to think outside the box — that is, if the answer isn’t plainly given in the source — she’d get it wrong every single time. She did get a high score, don’t get me wrong, but I was the top scorer in the class. And I didn’t study. We all have our own ways. She passed which is all that counts, I didn’t get any prize for obtaining the top score, and nobody else remembers or cares about it now. I don’t even care about it, I just wanted to make the point that the photographic memory is not the most useful mind in the room (though it can be handy).
Whatever the exact opposite of that is, that’s what I do…
and the cool thing is, a year or two, i can watch it all again!
I barely remember what I had for dinner… I definitely don’t remember shows or movies that well. I can rewatch a show every year or so and for the most part it will be unfamiliar enough to be entertaining even if I do recall some bits.
it takes watching (or reading) something many times to remember even just a few choice quotes. i dunno how people pull quotes out of thin air from obscure things they’ve seen or read one time.
Happened with one movie, the first Pirates of the Caribbean. I could recite every line, hum every soundtrack and reenact every scene. But this was 10 years ago, give or take.
But how many times did you have to watch it to get to that point?
The first time I watched it, I rewatched it seven times in a row. I’m not exaggerating. I downloaded it from who knows what shady site, learned about VLC media play and used it for the first time ever. A little late, I know. After those seven times, I could basically work out all the dialogue from any scene in my head. GOD I love(d) that movie.
There was a time in my life that i could recite, scene for scene, the entire screenplay, dialogue and soundtrack (but not the credits) of Transformers: the Movie.
‘Arblus, look! It’s Unicron…’
Does that count?
Both my parents have told me that I used to be able to do that with Aladdin (the 90s one, no interest in seeing the Will Smith one). I don’t remember being able to do that though, and I certainly couldn’t now.
Holy crap! I also memorized most of Aladdin! I think that makes us family now.
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Bar-weep-gra-nar-weep-ninibon!
Hell no
Not even close. I’m lucky to remember the main plot points and the main character’s name.
Not on a single viewing of a show. Someone would need one of those crazy ‘remember every day since I was 3’ brains to achive that.
Although, I get in trouble for quoteing every line whenever I watch The Blues Brothers… But this is a repeat viweing issue.Oh we got both kinds. Country and Western!
No, barely even all that happened in the episode.
Not even close. Which would make your think that i can rewatch movies again.
Noup, i remember the idea the movie and the scenes were trying to portrait in my subconscious and as soon as i try to rewatch it, it’s a really strong deja Vu and like i just finished watching it, irrelevant on how long time ago I actually watched it.
Absolutely not. I remember themes and notes buti do not store exactly the dialogue or anything.
My daughter does. I’ll quote a funny line from a movie, and she’ll correct me with the actual quote.
Not sure how her memory is so amazing for dialog. She did start talking full sentence, with proper syntax, at age two, so maybe its just her gift.
No, I remember some scenes and the general story.
