Science Facts or Cinematic Fiction?
In this
paper I would like to address a very important principle that a lot of movies,
animated films and video games neglect to add. That principle is gravitational
force in the law of physics. Often times they would leave out gravity on
certain motions or objects that are humanly impossible to do unless you are
trained as a yoga master or the world's strongest man alive. Just because the
character grunts and exerts all his force towards that object or perform a
stunt that looks really cool doesn't mean he or she would actually be able to
move or pull it off. Gravity is the force that weights on you so you don't
float into space or just simply fly around the earth. Gravity controls a lot of
elements around our Earth. Like Newton's third law, "Whatever goes up must
come down" because of gravity. Unless you're an airplane or an elevator.
Then you are defying gravity to the maximum. Of course Gravity doesn't apply in
space either until you move towards the earth's atmosphere.
In the film
Matrix, Neo was being chased by all kinds of bad men known as the agent smiths.
He ended up on the rooftop and have nowhere to go. The agents pointed the gun
at him and fired While the bullets are going toward him he arches his back in a
90 degree angle while feet planted on the ground to dodge those bullets. Is it
possible you ask me? No it is not possible to have your body in a 90 degree
angle while dodging the bullets. Your center of gravity standing up is around
your chest. Gravity would still be on around your chest but the amount of
gravitational force apply to it as well and your weight will cause you to fall
back or break something. Not to mention your legs won't be able to hold you up
like that, its humanly impossible to do and you will wobble and fall. Unless of
course you are a limbo champion and have years and years of training to form
your back and gravity to support you up. In the end Neo did fall but it's
because bullets have gravity apply to them too so as it falls it grazed his leg
and cause him to fall. They sure didn't forget about applying gravity to
bullets huh. I also didn't particularly like when they are doing combat and he
kicks someone and he goes flying up and hits the wall. That's not possible with
gravity and law of physics. Sure he might fly backwards but he won't go ascending
up and then hit the wall.
I am sure
you have seen this famous cartoon called Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner.
Its every 90s kids favorite law breaking cartoon animation by Warner bros. In
this cartoon, it breaks so much law of physics it's almost impossible to
remember and count them all on the top of my head. But I remember Coyote trying
to use a tub of water and a sail then use a fan to make him go forward. Coyote strapping
himself with a rocket and trying to shoot himself forward, with gravity he
would most likely get grazed up against the floor while moving forward. The
most famous one is when he goes off a cliff and he hovers there for a few
seconds then he tries to touch the ground but it's not there. He looks down and
looks at the audience and then he falls. Whenever I watch those moments I can't
help but laugh and watch him fall down. I wanted to try doing that but knowing
the law of gravity, you won't be able to even wait a second and you are already
falling down to your doom. I read somewhere someone wanted to do the bridge
jump when there is a gap in between but sadly even with so much acceleration
his car went down the river bank.
My third and
final animation that defies the principle of gravity is from a video game called
Resident Evil 5. In this game, the main character Chris is attempting to move a
boulder forward so he can get across to the other side and save his partner
from falling into the lava. So with all his might he push and push and he ends
up being able to push the boulder by punching it several times. Normally in a
real life situation its physically impossible for someone to push a 5 ton
boulder and make it move forward, let alone punching it. The force planted on
your feet with gravity is the same as you exerting the force onto the boulder,
which still wouldn't be possible to move it. When you punch it you are only exerting
temporary force and its like a blow of force for a few second that it. Keep on
pushing it would be more wise and healthier for your knuckles. Also the way the boulder bounces into the lava is just unreal its like gravity doesn't apply to it at all. The boulder looks like it was made out of rubber. This is similar
to the Kung Fu Hustle movie when the woman pushes a car sideways to park it.
Normally you won't be able to do that in real life because first the car is
heavy with gravity and second the woman was just giving it a one two push to
slide it into place. It's not possible in any sort of way. Regardless of how
buff and strong Chris is, its not possible to move that boulder out of his way.
Even Brian Shaw the world's strongest man can't punch a boulder to make it
move, or can he? He's done some crazy world breaking record things. So I
wouldn't doubt him to try it, but he's not a normal human.
Overall all
these three films, cartoon and video game shows that a lot of developers and
film creators don't remember there is something called realism and the
principle of gravity. But in their defense I understand why they choose not to
put gravity into consideration to make the movie more interesting. Its suppose
to defy gravity to make the audience more interested and like it. People love
unreality situations and it grasps their attention, if everything is base on
physics and reality in movies, video games and cartoons then it will be very
boring and lots of people will die in movies. While
we are on the topic of gravity, I also want to point out the movie gravity with Sandra
Bullock, there are a lot of things that are not right. When they go from one
place to another and then meet back together so quickly. According to actually
NASA professionals its not that quick and it takes some time to go from point A
to point B. Also china's space station is not next to ours, so she would of
been dead long ago. Just some food for thoughts facts. All in all, Gravity is bringing us down!
