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Glitterchicks said:
Whaaat?! I didn't know that elevator scenes were so inaccurate and I am very into inaccuracies in films and TV, actually! Elevators never even crossed my mind!
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You never notice when things are changed around in the scene when the camera just moves for a second and comes back and it looks different.
I spot these kind of errors a mile away.
 
I am not familiar with very many movies or TV shows—it's mainly just what the kids watch—but there have been a few falling elevator scenes. The first one was in one of the Captain America movies. Steve (main character) cuts the top cables with his shield thingy in his bid to escape some people that were chasing him. The elevator falls at rapidly increasing speed, before the governor kicks in and activates the brakes. So far, so good. It even had correct rail placement. But then the brakes start sparking and keep dragging down... and down.. and wait, once the brakes are activated by the overspeed being tripped, the car stops in 6.5 inches, according to one source. It doesn't take five seconds, and it sure doesn't stop smoothly enough for Steve to keep his feet! :barnie The next one was from somewhere in season one of the X-Files. Some computer software became self-aware and started killing people, one by taking the elevator up to the 29th floor then dropping the car. The issue here is that governors work on a mechanical system, not electronic, bar the first switch that trips at a slightly lower speed than the flyweights which will overcome the springs with centrifugal force and stop the wheel from rotating with the speeding car. So, how could a purely computational force overcome a safety system powered by physics?? It can't, unless it got a person to do it, and the rest of the episode clearly showed it was working alone. There was even a shot of the intact governor spinning at speeds more than high enough to trip the physical system. So, unless my sources are all wrong, their representations of elevator failures are incorrect. If it was an older elevator with a unidirectional governor... the computer in the second example could have sped up the lift mechanism electronically and smashed it into the roof. That I could buy. But they didn't do that.
 
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BantyChooks said:
I am not familiar with very many movies or TV shows—it's mainly just what the kids watch—but there have been a few falling elevator scenes. The first one was in one of the Captain America movies. Steve (main character) cuts the top cables with his shield thingy in his bid to escape some people that were chasing him. The elevator falls at rapidly increasing speed, before the governor kicks in and activates the brakes. So far, so good. It even had correct rail placement. But then the brakes start sparking and keep dragging down... and down.. and wait, once the brakes are activated by the overspeed being tripped, the car stops in 6.5 inches, according to one source. It doesn't take five seconds, and it sure doesn't stop smoothly enough for Steve to keep his feet! :barnie The next one was from somewhere in season one of the X-Files. Some computer software became self-aware and started killing people, one by taking the elevator up to the 29th floor then dropping the car. The issue here is that governors work on a mechanical system, not electronic, bar the first switch that trips at a slightly lower speed than the flyweights which will overcome the springs with centrifugal force and stop the wheel from rotating with the speeding car. So, how could a purely computational force overcome a safety system powered by physics?? It can't, unless it got a person to do it, and the rest of the episode clearly showed it was working alone. There was even a shot of the intact governor spinning at speeds more than high enough to trip the physical system. So, unless my sources are all wrong, their representation of elevator failures are incorrect. If it was an older elevator with a unidirectional governor... the computer in the second example could have sped up the lift mechanism electronically and smashed it into the roof. That I could buy. But they didn't do that.
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I'm going to turn on Captain America right now...I think I might know what you're talking about. Is it towards the middle? Right after they inject him with super strength?
 

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