The father of the hero of an action movie will be dead. If he is not dead, then he is the villain. It's always the mother of the hero who falls ill forcing the hero to steal to pay for the medicine. The villain's wife never approves of his activities. They go on looking the wrong way till the song ends.
Smugglers invariably keep a diary.
Though they have been in the business for ages, their diary never runs into several volumes, it's always a single leather-bound pocket size booklet. During car chases, the cars knock down so many push carts laden with vegetables, newspaper stalls, piles of empty cartons, etc. And when the cars go over a bridge, one of the cars is bound to fall from the bridge. If the hero is a police officer, the constable who accompanies him is always a comedian. One of them is rich and the other is poor.