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Episode 130 - Falling in Water


Justin_Case001

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Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  The ridiculousness of characters falling into water on tv and movies.

Movie/TV laws of physics:

Fall from literally any height and land in deep water, at any angle, and be perfectly fine.  Surface tension does not exist.  Take no damage.  Fall off a cliff, unconscious, plunge 2000 feet, land in water, wake up on the shore, happy as a clam.

Actual laws of physics:

Falling into water from higher than about 20 feet and landing wrong (i.e. ragdoll, belly flop) risks serious injury.  Higher than about 30 feet can result in broken bones.  Anything over 50 feet when landing wrong can be fatal.  It's like landing on concrete.  Falling into water from thousands of feet, like on tv, regardless of how you land--basically 100% fatal.

Tip for Hollywood: tv and movies are usually more interesting when consequences are realistic.  :dry:

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"Tip for Hollywood: tv and movies are usually more interesting when consequences are realistic."

Not necessarily, it really depends on the movie IMO. It's like when the hero has a gun with a bottomless magazine. Sometimes it does not make sense, but sometimes it's fun to watch him mow down all the bad guys using full-auto fire.

Let's say the creators want the bad guy or whoever to survive "impossible odds" - there's a fight near some cliff, the hero punches the villain in the face an he falls to the water below. There's no body found and later we ind out that the villain actually survived (but maybe was crippled by his injuries) and now there's another confrontation.

In "realistic mode" the fight would take place somewhere else, something else would happen to the bad guy to make it look like he was dead when he wasn't. But, you know, fights in high places with steep cliffs are cool to watch.

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Worse is when a person is falling and someone catches them and they are fine. Fall 100 stories, land into someone's arms, no problem.

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On 2024-01-14 at 1:03 PM, Brony Number 42 said:

Worse is when a person is falling and someone catches them and they are fine. Fall 100 stories, land into someone's arms, no problem.

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