Outline of Second Term Paper

            If you’re like me then going to the movies is for pure entertainment and scoping out science properties in physics in movie scenes is not part of the experience. You are purely involved in the movie that you just follow the storyline and all of the cinematic actions that come with it. However, sometimes the physical properties that are incorrectly expressed are so ludicrous that they become more obvious than normal. One concept that we will focus on will be the act of jumping. While we will look at jumping overall, the properties that are involved in a jump such as momentum, air resistance, and the force of a land, will be more closely speculated as they become violated in the featured films.

The Big Boss- In this Bruce Lee movie, Bruce Lee fights a crowd of opponents in the ice factory. During the fight he uses an opponent as a tactic to leap and land over to the opposite side from the crowd. What is wrong with the scene is that Bruce Lee does not attempt to gain neither speed nor momentum in order to make this leap. He simply takes a few steps, jumps on the man for extra cushion, and makes a great leap. There was no momentum from his simple two steps that would have allowed him such a great jump.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon- This film features Lucy Liu where she is dressed in all black attempting to fight a man. This fighting scene has a few properties out of place, but there is one in particular where her jump is unrealistic. The actress decides to jump during her fight, but seems to defy gravity and air resistance. Instead of going up in motion and then coming back down from her jump’ apex, she glides in mid air for a feJuw seconds; ultimately, making air resistance and gravity zero.

Iron Man- This movie involves super strength powers that seem realistic, yet defy some properties while in action. There is a scene in which Iron Man where he leaps and lands with his fist to the ground that creates a huge crack effect on the ground. While his landing force may potentially have the power to break the cement, his force onto the ground was not reciprocated as any force acted on any object is supposed to do. Iron Man was not affected from the land at all, which in turn violates the law of physics in action and reaction.

Ultimately, while these films may have intended to produce the most realistic scene possible they failed to follow through. In each scene, the character is depicted as doing everything right in order to jump, but whether it is the preparation, the act or the final step, one thing is out of place in order to generating reality.