Term Paper Outline: The Incredibles

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Movie: The Incredible

Body Paragraph 1: Car Defying Physics

-In the beginning, Mr. Incredible and the initial Police Cars in a car pursuit seem to stop on a dime, going more that 60 MPH they seem to stop in a distance of less than 10-15 feet.

-When the mobile home is being dropped from the space craft near the end of the film, despite gliding into the freeway even though it is not aerodynamically sound, pushing 90mph on the speedometer even though it appears to be traveling at least over 100mph coming out of flight the difference in speed doesn’t seem to affect it much.

-When the mobile home comes to a halt tumbling end over end, it ends up at an unrealistic angle about to tip over and fall over sideways, but regains it’s balance even though it’s past it’s center of gravity.

Body Paragraph 2:  Frozone uses his environment to his advantage and disadvantage

-In the movie, Frozone’s power which is based around the generation of ice, is solely dependent on the environment, we can see how advantageous it is in a situation like when he is battling the giant robot and can scate across the lake and use the lake.

-However, this can also be a disadvantage as can be seen earlier in the movie, where while combating the fire, Frozone’s powers become useless as the fire has sucked up the moisture, and left him dehydrated, which seems to be a weakness, which is also pointed out in the next scene where Frozone needs to ingest water before using his power.

Body Paragraph 3: “Zero Point Energy” Defies ideas of weight

-In the movie the villains technology of Zero Point energy seems to render mass irrelevant as when he first encounters Mr. Incredible, once captured in this energy, from a beam emitted from the finger, weight/mass seems to be a non factor as the characters pose does not change to compensate for what would be a redistributed weight and center of gravity.

-This can be seen once again when Syndrome, stops a tanker from falling on a mother, which also implies the idea that the laws of inertia and acceleration and deceleration are irrelevant.

Conclusion:

-The Incredible's defies physics and understanding of normal laws for a more cinematic and story driven approach, while grounding some of their characters powers with some realistic limitations such as Frozone’s need for moisture to generate ice.