Scientists send Movie Cliché Up in Smoke
March 13th, 2007 in Movies
Watch out, Hollywood, because the scientists are out to get you. A recent article in lefty UK newspaper The Guardian is warning us that, gasp, the movies aren’t real! A scientist in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (sounds like my kind of research) in Maryland, has de-mythified a Hollywood convention. Those countless moments when the villian (or sometimes the hero) flicks his cigarette into a pool of gasoline to cause plenty of havoc have proven to be inaccurate.
The scientists conducted a number of experiments to see if cigarettes could light petrol under any circumstances, all of which proved unsuccessful. They claim these tests were made in order to investigate defense claims made by suspected arsonists. Yeah right, guys, you’ve just been watching The Usual Suspects a little too much. Really, don’t scientists have something better to be doing, like curing diseases or something? And more importantly, doesn’t The Guardian have more important things to be reporting on?
Sources in Hollywood claim that in the light of this new evidence… well, they don’t care.
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November 30th, 2007 at 3:46 am
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