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Post by ironhold on Nov 29, 2014 1:00:11 GMT
SPOILERS AHEAD!
The film doesn't use "Chekhov's Gun" so much as "Chekhov's Arsenal".
One of the elements that comes back to be plot-relevant is the team's love of "Cheesy Dibbles", a fictional brand of cheese puffs.
In a key scene, Rico tosses Skipper a bag of puffs. Skipper puts it over his shoulder and slaps the bag hard, causing it to explode and a puff to shoot out in a fashion reminiscent of a shoulder-fired rocket launcher. The puff goes flying and impacts a button on a remote control, turning the villain's own device against him.
1. Could a bag of cheese puffs explode in the fashion depicted and under the conditions depicted?
2. If a bag does explode, will the puffs be sent flying randomly, or will some of them maintain a single flight path as per the Dibble rocket?
3. Could a cheese puff survive an impact with a remote control?
4. Would a flying cheese puff have the force needed to activate a button?
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Post by GTCGreg on Nov 29, 2014 1:33:15 GMT
Let's get serious here. We've got talking penguins and you want to investigate if a bag of cheese puffs can explode?
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Post by ironhold on Nov 29, 2014 1:35:57 GMT
"Give them the impossible, not the implausible." - writer's adage
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Post by GTCGreg on Nov 29, 2014 1:38:38 GMT
"Give them the impossible, not the implausible." - writer's adage If the penguins say the cheese puffs can explode, that's good enough for me. But you're the movie reviewer.
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Post by wvengineer on Nov 29, 2014 3:08:35 GMT
4. Would a flying cheese puff have the force needed to activate a button? Depends on the button. Is it a perfectly balance button with a hair trigger or a industrial over sized one that take substantial force?
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Post by GTCGreg on Nov 29, 2014 3:25:54 GMT
4. Would a flying cheese puff have the force needed to activate a button? Depends on the button. Is it a perfectly balance button with a hair trigger or a industrial over sized one that take substantial force? Also depends on the puffs. Are they those scrawny little things you buy at Aldi's or those big fat fluffy ones you buy at Jewel for $5 a bag.
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Post by silverdragon on Nov 29, 2014 10:40:44 GMT
So a bag of cheese puffs, you "pop" the bag... what happens next.... From real life experience, they stay where they are until gravity takes over. Then they all fall on the floor. Because the bottom of the bag is the part that popped....
Projectile weapons?... hardly.
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Post by Lex Of Sydney Australia on Nov 29, 2014 13:47:40 GMT
Projectile weapons?... hardly. No not unless you happen to find one that's somehow miraculously survived underneath the sofa for the last 6 months & is COVERED in furry bits. & then you decide to use it in a slingshot aimed at your little sister's head & as you fire it she turns at just the right moment opening her mouth....... & well you can all guess what happened next can't you. That Cheesy Puff got me grounded for a week but it was SO worth it on seeing my sister's reaction!
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Post by the light works on Nov 29, 2014 22:51:37 GMT
Projectile weapons?... hardly. No not unless you happen to find one that's somehow miraculously survived underneath the sofa for the last 6 months & is COVERED in furry bits. & then you decide to use it in a slingshot aimed at your little sister's head & as you fire it she turns at just the right moment opening her mouth....... & well you can all guess what happened next can't you. That Cheesy Puff got me grounded for a week but it was SO worth it on seeing my sister's reaction! at a theatre postshow party back when I was young, we got bored with throwing Cheetos up in the air and catching them in our mouths, and had gone on to trying to throw them up in the air and catch them in other people's mouths. one of our faculty members saw us doing it and said, "Let me show you how that's done" he told one of the other students across the room to open his mouth - and threw a Cheeto, LIKE A DART. I don't think even he could have repeated the shot.
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Post by OziRiS on Nov 30, 2014 1:11:29 GMT
Projectile weapons?... hardly. No not unless you happen to find one that's somehow miraculously survived underneath the sofa for the last 6 months & is COVERED in furry bits. & then you decide to use it in a slingshot aimed at your little sister's head & as you fire it she turns at just the right moment opening her mouth....... & well you can all guess what happened next can't you. That Cheesy Puff got me grounded for a week but it was SO worth it on seeing my sister's reaction! It's 2.10 a.m. here and I just had something that my girlfriend classifies as "a very unwelcome giggle fit"
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