Twister free essay sample

Twister In the movie Twister science is misused in a lot of ways and used in some ways. Throughout this essay you will find out in which ways science is misused and used. An example is in the movie the truck goes through an explosion of fire and when it comes out it is absolutely fine it doesn’t even have one scratch. Another example is there is no way that if you tie yourself to a pipe that you wouldn’t fly away. Also your hair would get messed up a lot and in the movie her hair wasn’t messed up even a little bit. Here are some ways how science is misused in the movie Twister. In a real twister, air and debris goes in toward the twister not out. Debris, 18-wheel oil trucks, farm equipment, cows and houses being flung away in not possible. Tornadoes do wander and alter their path and change in intensity, but they dont go back and forth across roads and take sudden U-turns or drop out of sunny windless skies. We will write a custom essay sample on Twister or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page Lightning and thunder dont flash and crash at the same time. Lightning is seen before thunder is heard so this is definitely not possible. Like I said earlier there is no way that a truck can come out of an explosion absolutely fine. In real life the paint on the truck would come off and the truck would be absolutely destroyed and have scratches on it but in the movie it came out absolutely new. Here are some more ways how science is misused in the movie Twister. Another example is the last twister in the movie was classified as an F-5. Yet when it hits the farm where Jo and Bill are strapped to the pipe, about a third of the barn is still standing. F-5 level tornadoes will destroy steel reinforced concrete buildings, so the entire ranch, house, barn, and all, should have been swept down to the ground and destroyed. Another thing is that the chance that you survive a F-5 tornado is very rare. Flying wood splinters and glass at that speed can shred clothes and skin and cause a really bad injury. Here are some ways how science was somewhat used correctly in the movie Twister. A twister would destroy anything even if it was concrete buildings or brick. Another thing is that In 1969 Jo’s father describes a tornado as like an F5 yet the Fujita scale was not introduced until 1971 so this is true that there is a Fujita scale but it was not introduced yet. In a twister skies change from clear to cloudy but not that quickly. Debris does fly but it spins around in a twister and doesn’t fling out it goes inward. Another example is that the ice cubes or fake hail they used for the storm was not realistic enough i mean there are hailstorms where big pieces of ice fall but they aren’t like how the movie showed they are. These were some ways how science was misused and used in the movie Twister. This movie had a lot of mistakes. Storm chasers don’t go that close to twisters and don’t go directly behind one. I personally think that this movie was an advertisement for the truck. In all the scenes where the truck was supposed to get damage or anything it came out absolutely fine not even a single scratch on it. Also throughout the movie there were a lot of trucks being thrown out of the twister. This movie has taught me what not to do when there is a twister.