Outline of the Second Term Paper

Intro

When it comes to explosions, it’s a must in most movies because of the excitement. There is a suspense of realism that the explosion may seem plausible at first, but in reality we are tricked by Hollywood fakery.

Explosions not really behaving like real explosions or tampering with the action/reaction effect is a common theme in movies where they ignore realistic physics. The characters are given an indestructible quality that ignores the devastation of a real explosion.

Thesis: The characters that are presented in the films Sin City, Hot Fuzz, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier are examples where they are impervious to explosions.

•  Sin City (2005)

 One of Miho’s grenades sets off close to her proximity and sends her flying off gracefully as if she were too cool to be affected by explosions. Not even a singe is left on her for some effect of realism. In reality, the projection that the grenade sends her flying wouldn’t be as theatrical but a more violent reaction to the action. The given radius of the grenade would likely do more than just an effect of “rocket boosting.”

• Hot Fuzz

At the end of the movie, when the mine is set off in the police station evidence room and yet it only kills the one person in the vicinity because he was evil. The mighty plot armor again saves the day or else the movie would be a tragedy and not a comedy.

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier

When Falcon is dodging the attacks from the turrets and the action sequence ends with an explosion of an aircraft that should have created a reaction that affected the Falcon. However, he appears unscathed from the explosion and is more in pain by the landing of the fall. In reality, the fire or shrapnel would have seriously wounded the Falcon, especially since he has less armor covering him overall.

 
Conclusion:
The illusion of indestructible good guys can be an uplifting but also misleading type of quality in character development. However, because Hollywood is filled with copious amounts of ridiculous explosions that the viewers are usually accustomed to the fact that explosions can selectively hurt people and to amp up the fun factor.