Hollywood Skip Bins

For the most part, skip bins in Sydney and around the world are easily ignored. They serve a single purpose of keeping the street or area clean and they perform that function well. However, Hollywood can be a little skip bin obsessed. Skip bins, or dumpsters as Americans know them, are often in movies or television shows as a means for the protagonist to escape from a tall building without having to use the stairs. Often, if not always, the skip bin will be full of soft items, or at least not full of broken glass or hard materials. So which movies and television shows are guilty of this bizarre and unrealistic cliché?

• The Matrix: Throughout The Matrix and its sequels, the protagonist, Neo, must outrun or outfight the antagonist that is the disturbing Agent Smith, who is often duplicated. During The Matrix, Neo is being chased by three Agents on top of a building, and he escapes by jumping into a skip bin.
• Stuart Little 2: It is not just humans who use skip bins as crash mats. The film’s antagonist, Falcon, attempts to kill Stuart by dropping him from a tower. Stuart lands in a skip bin and survives the fall.
• The Last Stand: A lot of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s movies are full of clichés. In one of his more recent roles, in the action movie The Last Stand, during the climatic street shootout, Schwarzenegger falls into a skip bin inexplicably full of stuffed toys.
• MacGyver: Macgyver is a cult classic because of its protagonist’s innate inventiveness that saw him create gadgets out of mundane items. However, Macgyver too fell victim to the skip bin cliché. In one episode, two bounty hunters tackle a pair of bad guys through a second-storey window. They all land in a skip bin full of bags of shredded paper.
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: You don’t often think of CSI as challenging Hollywood clichés but in one episode they did just that. A liquor store robber attempts to escape the police by jumping out a window and into a skip bin. However, though he lands in the skip bin, he is already dead thanks to a shard of glass from the window cutting his neck.

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