Every ethnic TV stereotype can be found in 2 Broke Girls. The beta asian male, the sassy black character with an attitude, the lecherous foreign guy, the dumb rich blond white girl...
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I work for a company that has a Hollywood office, suffice it to say that Hollywood is vastly different than Texas and NOT in a good way. DD
Bad guys that have guns but never use them in combat, or else the protagonist would be screwed. Also: When the good guy defeats bad guys to a 100:1 ratio. See: The Expendables.
I like how the bad guy always waits a few mins before the final shot..and of course this gives the good guy a chance to figure a way out.
When foreigners are only wearing traditional garb as normal clothes in a regular modern setting. We get that they're foreigners, I don't need to see the Asian person wearing a silk robe or African person wearing a dashiki to get it. Not everyone is wearing kung fu suits in China or fur hats in Russia all the time. Modern pants and shirts are common everywhere. The equivalent would be showing an American guy walk into the room wearing puritanical clothes.
Assuming a New York setting, seeing cops and crime might be less of a big deal and they're probably a little less deferential to plain-clothes detectives. But yes, it's an obvious literary device. Another crime stereotype is murders, rapes and robberies having some magical twist at the end, where it turns out to have been a tangential co-worker, relative or corrupt businessperson with some convoluted motives or deep-seated resentments, as opposed to manic depressive drifters, career criminals or chronically abusive spouses.
Nobody ever gets married at a courthouse, in their backyard or at a cheap-ass reception hall with just their siblings as guests.
Texas towns: tumbleweed, wooden fences and apparently no Mexicans. Southern towns in Grisham novels: universally corrupt authority figures, working-class wives in abusive relationships and deferential blacks in non-leadership or professional roles due to fully mobilized and well-coordinated daily Klan activity.
The smarter, more successful and attractive man whom the male protagonist is trying to woo a female from also happens to be cheating on her.
Australian accents can't be pretty crazy. Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon....that's normal. Then there is that tool in Pacific Rim, who is actually an Australian actor. I don't know if they told him to play it up but they way his talks is like a train wreck! Another terrible one was an Australian helicopter pilot in Mission Impossible 2. It was a pretty average movie but when that bloke hit the screen talking like an idiot....I was out! :-D
