The Common Tropes Used to Establish Movie Genius
This meme highlights a recurring cliché in film and television writing where characters are depicted as highly intelligent or sophisticated through specific, predictable hobbies. By showing a person playing chess or the piano, writers often attempt to signal a character's intellectual superiority or cultured background to the audience. The image uses the classic 'Daily Struggle' meme format, featuring a person sweating while choosing between two buttons labeled 'Chess' and 'Piano,' representing the limited toolkit screenwriters frequently rely on to establish a character's genius status.
I always took piano as meaning they were cultured not intelligent
you forgot eidetic memory
want to see the smart guy hack some military organisation just to impress other War Thunder Players
Easy. Smartest of them all
The police officers in The Conjuring 2, who leave the house immediatly once a chair moves on its own accross the room. They tell the frightened family "there is nothing we can do, while casually jogging to their police car, and give them the number of their local priest.
Random biology bullshit and "quantum"
Closes book lowers reading glasses and uses unnecessary vocabulary picked at random from a thesaurus. . “Your observation seems prudent in terms of modern artistic expression and is corroborated by my own empirical examination of the current creative climate”
And the extremely good chess player they beat is always surprised when they get mated because they didn't see it coming, just like never happens in real life
Don’t forget someone else needs to say out loud “You’re the smartest man on earth. Best of the best. A world class genius.”
- Thick framed glasses - tons of books in the background