Outline for the first term paper

Choosen Feature Film:

Live free or Die Hard. The movie is a fourth in line from Die Hard franchise, which are known from extraordinary action scenes.

Three simple scientific hypothesis:

1) People fall slower under gravity than in reality.

2) Absolutely no recoil no matter how big the guns are.

3) Impact on/of the vehicles is higher than it should be; they air borne pretty easily.

Scenes in the film confirming the hypothesis:

Hypothesis 1:

1) During the first action scene at Matthews apartment, bad guy falls out of the window after a fire extinguisher explodes on his face but takes a little too much time before he hits the ground.

2) When the fire hydrant is knocked off by a speeding cop car, the force of the water pouring out knocks of the bad guy from the helicopter and again the body takes a little too much time before it crashes to the ground.

Hypothesis 2:

1) During the first action scene, the bad guys have the biggest weapons which they are firing with absolutely no recoil.

2) At the beginning of the helicopter chase scene everybody opens fire from bad guys to cops with smaller to bigger weapons, but absolutely no recoil.

Hypothesis 3:

1) When the good guys are chased into the tunnel and there is a massive chain-reaction of car crashes, cars go air borne in a small tunnel and some spin out of control and keep spinning for a long time.

2) Later in the same scene the hero drives the car into a toll both with maximum speed of 45-50 mph, and the car flies into the with maximum height more than it could be achieved at the given speed and the cars kills the helicopter.

Scene that contradicts one of the hypothesis:

Hypothesis 2 (No recoil):

At the beginning of the power plant action scene, when good guy and bad guy fires gun at each other face to face in slow motion, there is a quite noticeable recoil from much smaller guns than usual guns we see used by bad guys through out the movie without recoil.