Alien: You’re telling me that in times of great distress humans have been known to suddenly gain the strength necessary to lift objects more than a dozen times their own weight?!
Human: Yeah, it’s called “hysterical strength” and it usually happens in life-or-death situations, like when someone gets stuck under a car or something and someone lifts the car to get them out. We can’t really test it though, ‘cause it only happens spontaneously.
Alien: Humans have the ability to tap into untold strength and power and you don’t even know how you do it?
Human: Pretty much, yeah. We think it has something to do with temporary analgesia, so we just don’t feel the pain we should when we pick up a 3000-pound car.
Alien: YOUR PAIN RESPONSE JUST SHUTS OFF?
Human: Yeah, it’s like an adrenaline thing? Do you not have that?
Alien: Fuck you and your entire species of tiny juggernauts.
Did this post just use a dialogue format to trick me into learning science
Had to check this out on wikipedia at least and boy was that a ride
Just so you guys know. Hysterical strength is basically your body not holding back and going %100 though there is a great danger of you hurting yourself or breaking something since your ignoring pain and going %100. There was a case where a kid deadlifted a car to save a sibling but,cracked 8 of his teeth during it because he was clenching his jaw so hard. So whilst you can lift a car or fight off polar bears. Your probably going to break something. Because most of the time when we are “giving our all” we are only giving a fraction of what we could give and this is because if we truly give our all we can seriously injure ourselves.
This is literally an explanation of Deku and his abilities with One For All.
Humans naturally hold back because our muscles have enough strength to rip themselves apart
Approximately 5000 terminally ill orcs volunteered to die in fight scenes. This is what real bravery looks like people!
Viggo Mortensen was so dedicated to his role that he had Peter Jackson write down all of his lives in advance so he could MEMORIZE THEM
Shrinking technology hadn’t been perfected in the early 2000s, so every cast member who wasn’t a hobbit (including the horses!) had to take experimental growth hormones in order to reach the right apparent size.
Shrinking technology has since gotten most of them back to normal, but Ian McKellen stubbornly refuses, saying he likes his ‘big stompy stompers and flappy flappers’
The Entish Actors Guild is run by the deeply conservative Church of Orome, which forbids entwives from acting. Peter Jackson came up with the story about all the entwives leaving to explain the lack of women. (In fact, *every* Ent in the cast is happily married)
There were contractual difficulties with the Eagles (the birds, not the band. Peter Jackson had nothing but praise for the band) throughout shooting.
This is why they show up so rarely, and in fact most of Frodo and Sam’s journey was written in two days by a manic Peter Jackson after the Eagles refused to film the original ‘just fly them straight to Mount Doom’ script
The surprise on Pippin’s face when the Eagles show up after Mount Doom erupts is genuine. No one knew they were going to show up that day, and it was assumed that Elijah Wood and Sean Astin would just die in the eruption after filming their tearful goodbye.
Hugo Weaving plays the ~7000 year old Elrond, despite being only 2000 years old himself
Peter Jackson has a cameo in *every* scene. Usually he just took his clothes off and played one of the animals in the background, but he also played several boulders hurled by catapults, Saruman’s beard, and the smoke ship Gandalf blows in the first movie.
They wanted to have a real dragon show up at Bilbo’s party, but it was otter mating season and Bendyflip Crimblejimblejammer was unavailable for filming
Aragorn’s entire speech at the Black Gates was ad-libbed. He felt that the original line (‘Let’s wrassle!’) was too serious, and some humor was needed to counterbalance the scene.
Lurz was actually several large Italian sausages on a scarecrow.
No one in the cast or crew could tell Merry and Pippin apart, and they used this to switch roles more than once. Watch again and see if you can tell who’s playing who in each scene!
Amazing! Every detail I learn just makes me appreciate this fantastic movie series even more.
“As the Bechdel Test began to creep into the sightline of mainstream movie criticism, it was notable to see the surprise of some male critics that their favorite movies—One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Goodfellas, The Princess Bride, Clerks, the original Star Wars trilogy, the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, and even Tootsie, when you get right down to it—so soundly flunked it. For many women, the reaction was more of a shrug, along with relief that, finally, there was a simple way to help writers and directors step over an embarrassingly low baseline. To be clear, applying the rule isn’t about snatching away the well-earned status of Raging Bull or The Godfather or even This Is Spinal Tap. As Anita Sarkeesian, creator of the Web site Feminist Frequency, noted in a 2009 video about the rule, “It’s not even a sign of whether it’s a feminist movie, or whether it’s a good movie, just that there’s a female presence in it.” The latter point is something that many people fail to grasp when trying to explain away why their favorite movies don’t pass the test (“But Batman is the hero of the movie! Of course the women characters are going to talk about him!”): the Bechdel Test is not a judgment of quality or nuance. After all, the beautiful, moving Gravity fails the test, while a formulaic rom-com like 27 Dresses passes with no problem. But the test itself is a simple, bloodless assessment of whether female characters are deemed important to a story—and a way to conclude that, most of the time, they aren’t.”
— We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement (Zeisler, Andi)
This makes me happy that it has an explanation, because too many people misunderstand the point of the test. “It sets the bar too low!” They say. That’s the point. It’s the lowest bar possible and many movies can’t pass it.
The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly knifing its way through
the waters of the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia.
The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought
Captain John DS. Phillips, the result. The Warrimoo’s position was LAT
0º 31’ N and LONG 179 30’ W. The date was 31 December 1899.
“Know what this means?” First Mate Payton broke in, “We’re only a few
miles from the intersection of the Equator and the International Date
Line”. Captain Phillips was prankish enough to take full advantage of
the opportunity for achieving the navigational freak of a lifetime.
He called his navigators to the bridge to check & double check the
ship’s position. He changed course slightly so as to bear directly on
his mark. Then he adjusted the engine speed.
The calm weather & clear night worked in his favor. At mid-night the
SS Warrimoo lay on the Equator at exactly the point where it crossed
the International Date Line! The consequences of this bizarre position
were many:
The forward part (bow) of the ship was in the Southern Hemisphere &
in the middle of summer.
The rear (stern) was in the Northern Hemisphere & in the middle of
winter.
The date in the aft part of the ship was 31 December 1899.
In the bow (forward) part it was 1 January 1900.
—
This ship was therefore not only in:
Two different days,
Two different months,
Two different years,
Two different seasons
But in two different centuries - all at the same time!
captain phillips saw his once-in-a-century chance and took it.
I had my boyfriend who smokes use matches for a few days instead of a lighter and record the date and time and whatever he was thinking about while smoking.
It’s funny that he quit smoking a few weeks after this project.
