Defusing Movie Bombs

[D from BC]

"Cut the green wire.."
"No! Cut the red wire.."

Yeah....

I have a movie idea..perhaps for a new Austin Powers movie..

Scene:
Austin has to defuse a bomb..
He gets instructions to cut the red wire..

He carefully opens the bomb cover.
Suddenly... a huge ball of 4000 tangled multicolored wires spill out
onto the floor.


D from BC

 

[David L. Jones]

"Cut the green wire.."
"No! Cut the red wire.."

Yeah....

I have a movie idea..perhaps for a new Austin Powers movie..

Scene:
Austin has to defuse a bomb..
He gets instructions to cut the red wire..

He carefully opens the bomb cover.
Suddenly... a huge ball of 4000 tangled multicolored wires spill out
onto the floor.

I like it!

A classic version of that is Harrison Ford in Air Force One when he
was given 5 options (Yellow, Green, Red, White & Blue) and had to cut
two wires. Of course, in a groan worthy Yank Wank scene he chose to
keep good'ol Red, White & Blue.

I loved the bomb disarm sequence in Executive Decision, even better
when an engineer geek saves the day!

I implemented something like this once, in a fake "exploding device" I
made for a Geocaching game. The player had to "disarm" the device
while the LCD clock counted down. There was a disarm keypad (that
didn't actually do anything), so some people tried to think up numbers
and failed. Those smart enough to figure it out had to disassemble the
box and find the hidden disarm switch inside. One player figured it
out quickly, but in true movie style waited until the final few
seconds to hit the disarm switch.

Dave.

 

[MooseFET]

"Cut the green wire.."
"No! Cut the red wire.."

Yeah....

I have a movie idea..perhaps for a new Austin Powers movie..

Scene:
Austin has to defuse a bomb..
He gets instructions to cut the red wire..

He carefully opens the bomb cover.
Suddenly... a huge ball of 4000 tangled multicolored wires spill out
onto the floor.

The wires should mostly be various orange and yellow colors and they
should have little tags on them that say "blue" and "green".

 

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The wires should mostly be various orange and yellow colors and they
should have little tags on them that say "blue" and "green".

It's cheaper to have just orange wires, and no tags.

 

[Paul Hovnanian P.E.]

"Cut the green wire.."
"No! Cut the red wire.."

Yeah....

I have a movie idea..perhaps for a new Austin Powers movie..

Scene:
Austin has to defuse a bomb..
He gets instructions to cut the red wire..

He carefully opens the bomb cover.
Suddenly... a huge ball of 4000 tangled multicolored wires spill out
onto the floor.

D from BC

You'd better forward this to the Air Force. They might need this bit of
knowledge sooner than you think.

 

[Paul Hovnanian P.E.]

"Cut the green wire.."
"No! Cut the red wire.."

Yeah....

I have a movie idea..perhaps for a new Austin Powers movie..

Scene:
Austin has to defuse a bomb..
He gets instructions to cut the red wire..

He carefully opens the bomb cover.
Suddenly... a huge ball of 4000 tangled multicolored wires spill out
onto the floor.

D from BC

I liked the scene in 'The Abyss' where a diver has to go down and cut a
wire (I think it was, 'cut the blue one, not the green one').
Unfortunately, the colors underwater were indistinguishable.

 

[D from BC]

I liked the scene in 'The Abyss' where a diver has to go down and cut a
wire (I think it was, 'cut the blue one, not the green one').
Unfortunately, the colors underwater were indistinguishable.

IIRC...there was no light except green light from a chemical light
stick..
D from BC

 

[Rich Grise]

"Cut the green wire.."
"No! Cut the red wire.."

Yeah....

I have a movie idea..perhaps for a new Austin Powers movie..

Scene:
Austin has to defuse a bomb..
He gets instructions to cut the red wire..

He carefully opens the bomb cover.
Suddenly... a huge ball of 4000 tangled multicolored wires spill out
onto the floor.

Nah. He gets instructions to cut the red wire, opens the panel,
and there are 4000 neatly arranged wires in a harness, in 4000
different shades of red. >:->

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Richard Henry]

"Cut the green wire.."
"No! Cut the red wire.."

Yeah....

I have a movie idea..perhaps for a new Austin Powers movie..

Scene:
Austin has to defuse a bomb..
He gets instructions to cut the red wire..

He carefully opens the bomb cover.
Suddenly... a huge ball of 4000 tangled multicolored wires spill out
onto the floor.

D from BC

We are in the process of redoing the lighting where I work. Sticking
out of what looks like will be a switch box on the wall are 4 wires,
all brown, with labels 2, 3, 4, 5 stuck to them.

 

[Charlie Edmondson]

"Cut the green wire.."
"No! Cut the red wire.."

Yeah....

I have a movie idea..perhaps for a new Austin Powers movie..

Scene:
Austin has to defuse a bomb..
He gets instructions to cut the red wire..

He carefully opens the bomb cover.
Suddenly... a huge ball of 4000 tangled multicolored wires spill out
onto the floor.


D from BC

In silly movie Sky High, they sent in a girl who became a hamster to
disable the gizmo, and she had two problems. The wires were all red,
and hamsters are color blind...

Charlie

 

[D from BC]

In silly movie Sky High, they sent in a girl who became a hamster to
disable the gizmo, and she had two problems. The wires were all red,
and hamsters are color blind...

Charlie

I've been dodging that movie ever since it came out.

Well...what are the odds....
I was hoping for one the writers of the Austin Powers movies to
contact me and send me a cheque for my idea


D from BC