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

  • The Hollywood sign once read ‘Hollywoodland’
  • The bridge blown up by Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was prematurely detonated by a Spanish Army Captain. Upon learning of his mistake the Captain ordered his troops to rebuild the bridge, only for it to suffer another explosion once complete.
  • Jackie Chan voiced the Beast in the Chinese dub of The Beauty And The Beast.
  • Michael Myers’ mask in "Halloween" is William Shatner’s face.
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