Dropping a match into gasoline
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Zanza8 — 13 years ago(July 06, 2012 07:46 AM)
Maybe Ingrid Bergman had a glass jaw.
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amazon423 — 13 years ago(October 12, 2012 08:01 AM)
Hit someone on the point of their chin will knock out a few people. My mother told me to do this with a combative person you are trying to save from drowning. Technique works with some. Other people have a hard head.
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goddard96 — 12 years ago(April 11, 2013 12:12 PM)
I feel like this part in the movie could be taken in many different ways. When the man is sitting there lighting up a cigarette and "not watching the stream of gasoline" I feel that they played this as fake as could be. When gasoline is dumped it has air-simulated fumes and would catch on fire from the fumes, not just from dropping it.
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Ironman54 — 10 years ago(November 07, 2015 04:24 PM)
"Throwing a burning match or cigarette onto gasoline would in fact have no effect."
FALSE. 100% False. I know,as I threw a lit Marlboro cigarette on a stream of gas leaking from a cars gas tank in which the driver had no gas cover to his tank (1968 RoadRunner).
Scared the hell out of me as I watched the flame slowly catch up with the car.
Apparently the stream was interrupted before anything else happened. I stood there in horror along with 2 of my friends saying to me 'Oh man, you f'd up !!'. I imagined the car was going to explode like in the movies but thankfully it didn't'. Still, the gas was ignited, no doubt about, by my lit cigarette tossed onto the street. -
oldsalt61 — 13 years ago(November 05, 2012 08:44 PM)
While the film appears to have a dropped match ignite liquid gasoline; there would be an amount of gasoline vapor near the ground above the liquid fuel and that would ignite and is actually more explosive than liquid gasoline.
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rhipaean — 13 years ago(March 03, 2013 07:14 PM)
How long does it take gasoline vapors to spread? The guy with the cigar is standing around for several seconds while the people in the restaurant yell at him.
I recall Hitchcock defending TORN CURTAIN's scene where the hero and a female contact spend an almost laughable amount of time trying to kill an East German agent. Hitch said he wanted to show that it's not that easy to kill someone. -
bradford-1 — 13 years ago(March 28, 2013 09:40 AM)
Howzabout slapping a hysterical person to calm them down? I saw this done in real life once and the "slappee" grew even more hysterical.
Or the way motor vehicles nearly always are ready to go as soon as the ignition key is turned? Of course, DOUBLE INDEMNITY played with this, when MacMurray and Stanwyck are trying to drive away after killing her hubby.
"May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?" -
glasscock_99 — 12 years ago(April 11, 2013 12:26 PM)
He put the match out before he threw it to the ground. So I don't feel that just the heat dropping into cold gasoline stream would ignite and make the vehicle explode spontaneously. But since its a movie it needs to be dramatic.
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leekingswood — 11 years ago(October 25, 2014 04:24 PM)
Actually, that's not correct. The people in the restaurant were yelling at him trying to warn him, he was distracted by their yelling and the match burnt his fingers and he drop it.
My main problem with that scene isn't whether a match, lit or otherwise, could ignite the gasoline, it's how in the world that guy couldn't smell the gasoline river flowing under his feet to begin with when he got out of the car.
He got what he deserved for being so addicted to smoking cigars not to be aware of his surroundings. -
bdarrancar26 — 12 years ago(April 12, 2013 10:18 AM)
i watched this myth busters about static electricity setting off a spark in gas vaper making ie explode. it worked. so yes the vaper is flamable and so then the gas should be as well. maybe they used lighter fluid it would light if a match hit it. ive lit fires with the stuff before and the match dose not go out or at least not right away.
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Anorensic — 11 years ago(August 04, 2014 06:52 AM)
It depends on the match usedhe lights one, lights the cigar, shakes it to put it out and drops it on the ground with gasoline.maybe the match wood was still glowing red which would be enough. Like someone said you would be crazy to try this out because it can happen.
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ecarle — 11 years ago(August 10, 2014 03:58 PM)
When I saw a one-night "re-release" of The Birds a coupla of years ago at a movie theater, the other "creative license" issue was: once the man dropped the lit match and the gasoline exploded, on the soundtrack came one of those standard "KABOOM!" explosion sound effectsas if the victim hadn't just set himself on fire, but had somehow ignited dynamite at the same time.
But that didn't really matter, Hitchcock got his spectacular action effect of sight and sound.
Hey, 12 years later Steven Spielberg had a great white shark blow up "like an oil refinery"(the skeptical words of "Jaws" author Peter Benchley) on the basis of a bullet to a scuba tank in its mouth