Jumping a chasm in a mine-cart
Nov. 14th, 2009 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackIn Speed, there was a notably unrealistic scene where a city bus jumped over a large gap in an unfinished freeway bridge, despite the lip being, you know, flat. Ironically, they filmed this scene by driving an ACTUAL city bus over an ACTUAL bridge with a gap in it (iirc), but then digitally editing the ramp out later to make it look deliberately impossible.
OK, having workmen leaving a convenient ramp at the edge of the lip might be a little unrealistic, but nowhere near as unrealistic as having the bus magically leap upwards against gravity. Alternatively, you could choose a bridge which has a slope on each side, which under good circumstances could be actually realistic.
In Van Helsing, Van Helsing jumps a COACH AND FOUR across a chasm in a similar manoeuvre. Now, horses can in fact jump. But I doubt they could lift a coach by the harness.
Now, I think I've seen an EVEN MORE implausible attempt. In Journey to the Centre of the Earth, the guy from The Mummy jumps a MINE CART over a chasm. Now, ok, there may be a ramp. And it may get across safely. But what are the chances of it landing perfectly on the rails?
OK, having workmen leaving a convenient ramp at the edge of the lip might be a little unrealistic, but nowhere near as unrealistic as having the bus magically leap upwards against gravity. Alternatively, you could choose a bridge which has a slope on each side, which under good circumstances could be actually realistic.
In Van Helsing, Van Helsing jumps a COACH AND FOUR across a chasm in a similar manoeuvre. Now, horses can in fact jump. But I doubt they could lift a coach by the harness.
Now, I think I've seen an EVEN MORE implausible attempt. In Journey to the Centre of the Earth, the guy from The Mummy jumps a MINE CART over a chasm. Now, ok, there may be a ramp. And it may get across safely. But what are the chances of it landing perfectly on the rails?