Many of us love movies where the portrayal of the character has some sort of "brood" strength. Movies like Rocky, Rambo, Conan, and many others. For this my focus is on the actually of what some of them are portrayed to do when things get sticky. To start I would like to look at the Scorpion King. Having just re watched this movie the other night there are several scenes which while are cool to watch are just a fetch of the imagination. To start towards the beginning of the movie, the "Rock" (Dwayne Johnson) has a bow that only a select few can even fire due to his training and strength. In several scenes, he fires the bow which in turn sends an enemy flying through the air in the opposite direction of the arrow. While laughable, not realistic. Arrows were/are made to have a sharp pointed end that is made to puncture and cut through whatever it hits so while it may stop someone, it would send them flying backwards through the air. Another movie where this occurs is the new Rambo. There is a scene where a man is shooting a .50 caliber sniper rifle. He shoots two guards and sends them both flying backwards through the air. Once again, bullets are made to "rip" through someone and do devastating amounts of damage so while it would stop someone the likely hood of them flying backwards through the air is just not in the reality realm.
I enjoy movies just like the rest of you and am not trying to take away from what the directors and actors are showing, seeing a scene where these things happens is very funny, cool and exciting at times. The purpose however of this blog is to show where science and Hollywood don't match up on all fronts and the imagination is left to create. The instances mentioned above are not the only two of there kind I'm sure that if you watch a little more closely, you can pick out several other instances in movies where all these things happen.
Hope you have fun trying to pick out these things and others mentioned by this blog.
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