10 Movie Myths

10. A Defibrillator Shock Can Start A Stopped Heart

In many movies, it is shown that after a main character’s heart stops breathing the doctors just give them few shocks and they are alive again. But in reality, once a heart has stopped beating, a defibrillator cannot restart it.

9. Tracing A Phone Call Takes Time

The police are on the phone with the criminal. They need to stay him talking for some X seconds before they'll trace the call and realise his location. But in reality, most of the time, police apprehend wherever you're as presently before the call starts. And this isn’t only for landlines, either. It’s additionally true for cell phones.

8. Explosions Are No Big Deal

Any sensible action hero value his salt is aware of the way to take care of an explosion: never cross-check it, jump in the air precisely once it happens and so arise and keep running. It doesn’t matter that the shockwave was robust enough to shatter buildings, cars, and different significant stuff. Once it involves the body, all an explosion will propel the hero forward in the picture. As you may expect, in real world, that very same shockwave would tear our hero to items. He is not only pushed forward by the shockwave but also the shockwave goes through him. This alone is sometimes enough to prevent his heart from beating.

7. To Report A Missing Person, You Should Wait For 24 Hours

You’ve seen this situation uncounted times in movies and television. If Somebody is missing, their beloved ones visit the police and forever get a constant response: “We got to wait twenty-four hours before we will do something.” This typically refers to adults, not kids, with the reasoning being that, as adults, they're allowed to wander around somewhat before it’s a police matter. It’s all nonsense. If you have got real issues for the welfare of someone and you don’t understand wherever they are, police advise you to contact them now. That being same, simply being missing isn't really against the law, therefore, the police don’t have to tell you wherever that person is. In fact, this is often operating procedure if the missing person doesn’t need their whereabouts illustrious. The police can simply tell you that the person has been found.

6. Shooting Two Guns At The Same Time Looks Cool

You have seen this in many movies. The hero is surrounded by the bad guys. They bad guys start shooting, and our hero takes out two guns and kills them all. But in reality, Aiming at two targets at once is hardly possible.

5. Silencers Make Every Gun Completely Quiet

It is a common movie myth, the bad or the good guy kills everyone in the room and the people in the next room do not even know about it as he used a silencer on his pistol. But in reality, a silencer only dampens the noise, but the gunshot is still audible.

4. A Door Can Be Unlocked With A Gun

Our hero visits a house or a hideout and sees a lock, he immediately pulls out his gun and shoots at the lock and enters the house without any trouble. But in real life, a padlock shackle is thick and made of iron. A small bullet wouldn’t break it.

3. Chloroform Immediately Knocks Out People For Several Hours

Chloroform is the primary weapon of any criminal. He just puts few drops on a napkin and makes the victim smell it, and the victim is immediately unconscious. But in reality, it takes up to five minutes for someone to feel the chemical’s effects, which then last for a short while.

2. The Forensic Process Gives Answers To All Questions And Even Solve Crimes

It is yet another movie myth. The body is found, the forensic experts look at the body and tell the police the time of death and the way in which the victim was murdered. But in real, the process of forensics only helps to collect evidence.

1. The Pin Of A Grenade Can Be Dramatically Pulled Out With One’s Teeth

It looks cool in a movie when the hero pulls out the ring of the grenade and throws it at the villain. In reality, the person would have no teeth afterwards, and the grenade would still have a pin.