Fortunately or unfortunately one more movie has come under my fire! The Incredible Hulk (2008) is movie about the scientist Bruce Banner, who, thanks to a gamma ray experiment gone horribly wrong, transforms into a big green super human, whenever his pulse rate goes above a certain limit. In this part, Banner battles a soldier who tries to employ the same "accident" to become a super soldier, but ends up becoming a monster. A fine entertainer staring Edward Norton and Liv Tyler.
While watching this movie a couple of days back (watching it the nth number of time), logic suddenly struck my head. Now, while watching a Hollywood entertainer like this one, it is advised to keep the brain aside and enjoy the movie. I did managed to do this for the first couple of times. But this nth time, my brain came alive like the Hulk himself.
Just before one of the most gripping parts of the movie, where Banner transforms into the hulk for the first time, he (when is still human) swallows a pen-drive, to protect it from getting into the wrong hands (read as the US Army, how ironic). After the transformation and a whole lot of action, banner regurgitates the pen-drive in the same solid state. This is where logic attacked my brain.
Firstly, the swallowing of the device happens sometime in the early evening and the regurgitation sometime in the late afternoon/early evening the next day. So the time elapsed is roughly 24 to 25 hours. In a normal human being, the complete process of digestion, from ingestion to excretion takes anywhere between 24 to 40 hours (approximate from what i remember of the science text books). So when Bruce Banner, pukes out the device after 24hours , it remains the same. No difference from when it had been swallowed. Now comes my favorite part, lets list the logical explanations for this.
1. The pen-drive cannot possibly be in the same state. The human digestive system has a lot of gasrtic juices and acids being produced continuously. We need to remember that Banner transforms into the hulk, and so does his digestive system. The strength of the gastric juices would also increase. So could the pen-drive be immune to such strong acids?
2. In the time lapsed, considering the amount of jumping, running and a whole lot of action, digestion wouldn't have stopped (not that it would if you sat still). Nor would the movement in the digestive tract. So in 24 hours Banner could not possibly regurgitated it but , on the contrary the device would be easier to extract from the opposite orifice.
3. A possible explanation would be, when Banner transforms into the Hulk, his digestive system might transform into one like the Ruminants. So the pen-drive would be safe in his rumen, and can be retrieved (pun intended) any time he wants.
4. the pen-drive was made up of Adementium (material of Wolverine's bones) (Yes this is logical)
5. How did the data inside survive? are pen-drives water/gastric juice proof? It must contain some very complex data about materials and chemicals (again..pun intended)
So there it is. The things which came to my head when, i would like to put it as, "logic" hit my brain. The flip side to this line of thought was the thought which succeeded all of this. "My doltish brain did not find a man surviving huge amounts of radiation and running around illogical, but found the above piece clashing with logic!"
Sad but true!
While watching this movie a couple of days back (watching it the nth number of time), logic suddenly struck my head. Now, while watching a Hollywood entertainer like this one, it is advised to keep the brain aside and enjoy the movie. I did managed to do this for the first couple of times. But this nth time, my brain came alive like the Hulk himself.
Just before one of the most gripping parts of the movie, where Banner transforms into the hulk for the first time, he (when is still human) swallows a pen-drive, to protect it from getting into the wrong hands (read as the US Army, how ironic). After the transformation and a whole lot of action, banner regurgitates the pen-drive in the same solid state. This is where logic attacked my brain.
Firstly, the swallowing of the device happens sometime in the early evening and the regurgitation sometime in the late afternoon/early evening the next day. So the time elapsed is roughly 24 to 25 hours. In a normal human being, the complete process of digestion, from ingestion to excretion takes anywhere between 24 to 40 hours (approximate from what i remember of the science text books). So when Bruce Banner, pukes out the device after 24hours , it remains the same. No difference from when it had been swallowed. Now comes my favorite part, lets list the logical explanations for this.
1. The pen-drive cannot possibly be in the same state. The human digestive system has a lot of gasrtic juices and acids being produced continuously. We need to remember that Banner transforms into the hulk, and so does his digestive system. The strength of the gastric juices would also increase. So could the pen-drive be immune to such strong acids?
2. In the time lapsed, considering the amount of jumping, running and a whole lot of action, digestion wouldn't have stopped (not that it would if you sat still). Nor would the movement in the digestive tract. So in 24 hours Banner could not possibly regurgitated it but , on the contrary the device would be easier to extract from the opposite orifice.
3. A possible explanation would be, when Banner transforms into the Hulk, his digestive system might transform into one like the Ruminants. So the pen-drive would be safe in his rumen, and can be retrieved (pun intended) any time he wants.
4. the pen-drive was made up of Adementium (material of Wolverine's bones) (Yes this is logical)
5. How did the data inside survive? are pen-drives water/gastric juice proof? It must contain some very complex data about materials and chemicals (again..pun intended)
So there it is. The things which came to my head when, i would like to put it as, "logic" hit my brain. The flip side to this line of thought was the thought which succeeded all of this. "My doltish brain did not find a man surviving huge amounts of radiation and running around illogical, but found the above piece clashing with logic!"
Sad but true!
