Name: Explosives Engineer and SFX Expert Review Explosions from ‘The Dark Knight,’ ‘Breaking Bad'
Uploaded: 2020-03-31T17:31:01.000Z
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The second conditional

from C4 going off, you'd have to have a big sign

- Remind me not to come to your movie theater.

- Hi, I'm Paul Worsey and I'm a professor

- And I'm Tassilo Baur, a special effects supervisor

- Today, we're going to review explosions

in TV and film from a scientific perspective

In the guitar case, we see some modern-era grenades.

But unfortunately, they're rolling around.

And that's not the sort of thing I'd want

to do with grenades is have them rolling around,

Now I personally wouldn't throw a guitar case full

inside those casings rather than a segmenting grenade.

The original grenades were pineapple in design.

And they were supposed to break up into large chunks.

And these large chunks were propelled out and killed people.

Modern grenades are designed to give a lot of fragments,

very small fragments which are termed frag.

The term shrapnel is usually used accidentally

And there was a shell called the shrapnel shell.

So, in a shrapnel shell, the ball bearings are there.

And they're blown everywhere by the explosives.

Frag comes from a steel casing that's broken.

It's turned into pot metal by the detonation wave.

And then these small pieces fly everywhere.

In a lot of movies, somebody will throw a grenade

unless they set off a propane tank that's just off-frame.

A frag grenade when it goes would be a poof,

but you definitely won't see a lot of flame.

they would have placed explosives specifically

with a view toward causing that wall of fire.

And the grenades of course are simply props

that the stunt performers on the ground react to.

they probably would have used gasoline lifted

by charges placed between the two buildings.

You can even see in the top right corner part

that the gasoline was likely poured into.

or something to allow them to jump the way they do.

And then we see the wide shot of the two main actors

against a fireball and it's done very cleverly

in that there's really good protection for them

to compress the distance between them and the fireball.

The fireball is actually between the two buildings.

instead off billowing out like a mushroom.

And they're good actors so they don't flinch.

They carry it off and it makes a great shot.

- In this sequence, we're seeing a lot more complex effects

First off, the Catwoman performer punches

in such a way that this performer could punch

through it safely and it would look like it was supposed

This sort of thing is what's called a breakaway.

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