Questions tagged [realism]
The general attempt to depict things accurately in film/tv shows.
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What programming language is Mr. Glass using? [on hold]
I assume that because (2019) Glass is a movie, and in my experience film makers don't feel they need too much reality to tell a story, that this code is gibberish. But I also wonder if maybe it might ...
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How realistic is Detective Vic Manning's eye surgery recovery?
In Stuber, Detective Vic Manning has Lasik surgery. Immediately after the surgery, everything is blurry. Over the next 12 or so hours, his vision slowly comes back into focus.
The one person I knew ...
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Would this be allowed to happen in real life? [on hold]
In Spider-Man: Far From Home, the first post-credits scene, a news broadcast in a screen outside the Maddison Square Garden announces and shows a video of Mysterio, before death which he edited to ...
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In Lucy, is CPH4 based on something in real-life?
Lucy features CPH4, a drug that enhances physical and mental capabilities. Is this drug/molecule based on a real-life substance? Multiple real-life substances? Looking for in-universe or official ...
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How realistic is Lone Survivor when a soldier pulls a gun on a friendly pilot?
In a scene from Lone Survivor shortly after
a soldier on the second helicopter pulls a gun on his own pilot, telling him to land despite the area clearly being a hot landing zone with a lot of gun ...
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Meaning of wall colors in Flashpoint?
The show Flashpoint is about a fictional SRU team (essentially SWAT).
When they are on location at an incident, they refer to the various walls of a building using colors instead of directions. ("...
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Why did Grace take Morgan's staff after he killed the radioactive walker?
In Season 5 Episode 2 of Fear the Walking Dead, Morgan and Alicia meet up with Grace who tells them there was a meltdown at a nuclear plant nearby and so some of the walkers are radioactive. Morgan ...
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Ring the bells. But how?
Just before Deanarys goes completely Apocalypse Now on King's Landing in Game of Thrones S08E06, there is a moment of eerie quiet. After this brief moment of realizing the abysmal situation they're in,...
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Why did Admiral Nimitz say they had 3 to1 carrier advantage?
In the movie Midway after the Battle of Coral Sea Henry Fonda as Nimitz made the comment they had started out with a 3 to 1 carrier advantage was he implying the Pacific fleet had more carriers?
Did ...
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Would Buck Strickland's scheme work?
In the episode Hanky Panky, Buck Strickand, anticipating his upcoming divorce, devises a way to avoid turning over half of ownership of a restaurant he owns by selling it to Hank Hill for petty cash ...
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Does animal tranquilizer really work as fast as we see on Dexter?
In the television show Dexter (2006-2013) whenever Dexter captures one of his victims, he does so by injecting them with a syringe of animal tranquilizer. Usually we see him inject them in the neck ...
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Why did energy level drop after switching to global automatic control?
In the 5th episode of HBO's Chernobyl at (30:25), Akimov should lower the energy level to 700 MW. However, when reaching 700MW, the energy level of the reactor drops quickly to 512MW. Legasov ...
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Is HBO's Chernobyl accurate about the sequence of instructions causing reactor stall?
In the series finale of Chernobyl on HBO, Dyatlov orders Akimov and Toptenov to bring the reactor power down to 700 MW, as per the written test instructions, and then leaves the room without giving a ...
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Ticket sales for Queen at the Live Aid
In the movie, Bohemian Rhapsody, the band's manager and lawyer Jim tells Queen that the entire line up for the show was ready and that all the tickets had already been sold out. Yet he managed to ...
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Do Game of Thrones' crossbows and scorpions work in a realistic way?
Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 4 spoilers ahead.
Those of you who have seen Episode 4 already must be very impressed by the capabilities of medieval projectile weapons like crossbow and scorpion. ...
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Does the Science of Deduction exist in real life?
Sherlock Holmes always talks about the "Science of Deduction", which is the ability to deduce anything about people just from observation.
Does the "Science of Deduction" really exist, and does it ...
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Reason for the uncommon German license plates in “Hanna”
Being German myself, I've noticed that the German license plates in Hanna have quite a strange format, it's something like
B-123-ABC
whereas the common format is
B-AB 1234
Where the first part (...
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Can a Knight grant Knighthood to another?
In Game of Thrones S08E02, Jaime Lannister said,
“You don’t need a king. Any knight can make another knight".
But is it right in the context of Game of Thrones? Is it legal to make anyone else ...
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Is the way Benji detects the plutonium realistic?
In Mission Impossible: Fallout, there is a scene where Benjamin Dunn is examining a plutonium core brought by Eastern European gangsters. He touched the core with some sort of a rod and when asked ...
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How did Seth Powers keep the ball spinning?
In Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Seth Powers is always (or almost always, not sure) seen with a basketball spinning on his fingers. Did the actor actually do this, or was it done by means ...
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Do Tinkers like the one from “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” still exist?
I just wonder if "Tinkers" like the one in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" who has a cart of meat cleavers still exist to this day?
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Was interest rate in Brewster's Millions that high?
I was rewatching the movie Brewster's Millions (1985) the other day and there's this one scene that caught my attention: when the title character goes to check out his 30 millions at the bank the ...
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How come the ground shook for days after the bombing raids?
In The Nun father Anthony Burke encounters a damaged castle and asks Frenchie:
Father Anthony Burke: A result of the war?
Frenchie: Bombing raids, yes. I've heard stories of how the ground
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Can military police arrest civilians on US soil?
In the movie Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Jack Reacher has a sheriff arrested by military police because this sheriff is possibly involved human trafficking.
Can military police arrest a civilian on ...
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Were the charges listed by Walsh legitimate?
On the flight to Las Vegas in Midnight Run, Walsh describes a list of charges the feds can apply to Serrano:
Perry: There are no real computer disks. Is that right?
Walsh: Right.
Perry: If ...
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How realistic is using same ammo crate for different guns in this scene?
On a recent episode on Gotham, Oswald(Penguin) is making 9mm ammunition. Gordon and Bullock are in a gun fight and eventually run out of ammo.
We can see in the next scene there is a cartridge can ...
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Normal in US to end phone calls abruptly?
In US movies it often happens that a person talks to someone on the phone and then hangs up after the relevant things are said without any further greeting like "goodbye" or "see you", "talk to you ...
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Was the American interview at the end of “La Vie En Rose” real?
In one of the final scenes of the Oscar-winning Edith Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose (2007), a now elderly Edith is sitting on a beach and approached by an American reporter conducting an interview for an ...
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Can veterans bring home any weapons as will?
In the TV show, True Detective season 3, episode 4~5, Brett Woodard, while being chased by his fellow town folks, runs home and sets up several traps with grenades and a claymore anti-infantry mine.
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How realistic is fund transfer in seconds or minute? [closed]
Fund transfer be it from villain's side or hero's side, it is often depicted as a less-than-a-minute operation.
But in reality, fund transfer takes multiple steps. And when it's a 6 digit amount, it ...
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Uri Based on Real story?
As per the movie prologue, Uri: The surgical strike is based on a real story,
but how many incidents of the movie are real and do they have the real connection?
Let's say certain events of the movie ...
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How did Brian blow out the floor plate in his car?
In The Fast & The Furious (2001), during Brian's first race with Dominic Toretto, he engages the NOS and the car has a burst of speed. During that burst, the front floor plate of his car comes ...
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Would the Post Office really deliver a letter decades after postage like in Back To The Future?
Not that it ruins my enjoyment of the movie, but I'm curious about the scene in BTTF2, where a postman shows up in 1955 where the Doc had been blasted back to 1885 and gives Marty a letter that the ...
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How realistic is parachute jumping from Caesars Palace in Hangover?
In Hangover III Leslie Chow jumps off Caesars Palace to escape capture by Phil.
Parachute jumps are to be made from plane at sufficient altitude.
A quick Google ...
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Can time really slow down due to earth revolution?
From The Elseworlds episode 3 (Supergirl season 4 episode 9),
When Evil Superman (Dr. Deegan) regained The Book of Destiny and started to rewrite reality (@26:13 min), Flash (Barry Allen) suggested ...
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Is it possible for this character to have died so quickly from that wound?
In Tangled, when Mother Gothel stabbing Eugene, is it possible for him to die that fast from that wound?
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How realistic is qualifying for so many badges worn by Vicky Kaushal?
Recently saw the Uri: The Surgical Strike trailer starring Vicky Kaushal.
I recognize some badges worn by him. Namely the paratrooper badge and special forces badge. ...
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Why take that “glass floor” risk in the museum?
In The Walking Dead's 'A New Beginning' (season 9 episode 1 / S09E01), a team led by Rick Grimes enters the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, in order to find useful materials and tools for their ...
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How did the car fly in Furious 7?
Regarding the scene in "Furious 7", where a car jumped between the multiple skyscrapers, as seen below...
Is this realistic at all? It does not seem possible.
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Did Queen's performance really cause Live Aid to clear $1,000,000 in donations?
In Bohemian Rhapsody, Bob Geldof is shown pleading with viewers to donate money. The phone bank operators are waiting for their phones to ring. Then, Queen gets on stage, the phone banks are busy, and ...
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Is it possible to debug 2 million lines of code? (The scene with Nedry at Jurassic Park) [closed]
In a famous scene with John Hammond and Nedry, Nedry says that he is the only one who can debug 2 million lines of code. So after that scene and with my frustration I googled and some websites say ...
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How realistic was the movie “Electric Dreams” for its time?
The film Electric Dreams (1984) is about a man who buys a computer for the first time and connects all his house-hold appliances to it, creating essentially a fully automated home which then becomes ...
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How can Skyler buy a $800k car wash
I don't get how an unemployed teacher can buy a car wash?
I know it's just a plot, but do the writers ever refer to loaning the amount or justify buying Bogdan's car wash?
Any money laundering ...
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Is the “people expecting to die don't lie” catch really admissible in court?
Two last episodes of Marvel Daredevil Season 3 bring two plot twists regarding gathering evidence against Fisk:
Firstly
So the last legal way of taking down Kingpin seems to be closed. But then
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Why did Miami Vice department took all sorts of cases?
In the 80's TV show Miami Vice, the main protagonists took all types of cases - drug dealing, murders and even protecting celebrities. But isn't there a separate police department that deals with ...
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How realistic are legal analysis panels like these?
In The Good Wife episode 7.15 titled, Targets, Alicia Florrick is selected for a small panel of legal advisers to partake an a legal analysis of some executive order that pertains to killing enemy ...
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Is Arrival's plot of rewiring one's brain by learning a new language based on reality?
In Arrival we see that learning a new language has done significant changes inside the brain.
Can learning a new language really “rewire your brain”? Was this plot point in the movie based on a ...
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In Sleight, how did Bo change the card in the young woman's hand?
Sleight (2017) included a lot of magic tricks. Some of the tricks involving magnetism had a "scientific" (but impossible/ridiculous) explanation.
The movie also included card tricks. In one of Bo's ...
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What Was With that Med School? [closed]
I just got done watching Flatliners. What was with that medical school? It looked like it was falling apart. Then the main building they were performing the experiment in was under major ...
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Weed Smoking in This is the End
This is the End (2013) features scenes where Seth Rogen smokes weed. It's no secret that Seth Rogen likes to smoke weed, and from this link, it would seem they often did it off camera.
On camera; is ...
