The Wildest Myths Viewers Have Been Led to Believe by Movies & Media

Myth #43 – It’s Impossible to Calmly Walk Away From an Explosion

While the initial inferno might not cause any harm to a person in real life, the shockwave after would. It would compress all of the air in your body as it spread out from the point of impact and then immediately cause it to expand massively as a result of the vacuum left behind.

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The More You Know

  • Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because he had made “that disgusting movie Psycho.”
  • The director of Cannibal Holocaust had to prove in court that the actors were still alive and didn’t get killed during the movie.
  • "Psycho" was the first time a flushing toilet was shown on screen.
  • Beck Hansen wrote and composed the music played by the fictional band S*x Bob-omb in the movie "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World".
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