Mythbusters Movie Analysis

Mythbusters: Green Hornet Special. This episode was a special on myths regarding the new movie, The Green Hornet. Seth Rogen made a special appearance in the show and tagged along with Adam and Jamie, the hosts of Mythbusters. Discovery Channel aired this Mythbusters program on December 15, 2010 at 9 p.m. The first situation Mythbusters tried to recreate from the Green Hornet movie was the scene where Black Beauty (the car the Green Hornet drove) was buried on its side, with a bulldozer on top. In the movie, the Green Hornet and Kato were able to escape without injury by launching missiles to move the bulldozer. To recreate this situation, Adam and Jamie put armor plates on the back of the car’s front seats to protect the passengers.
They built small scale models of the scenario and tried two different explosives – 4 pounds each of TNT and ANFO. The TNT blasted one model to pieces, while the ANFO tore the other model apart and scattered the pieces a far distance. For the actual, life-size test, Adam and Jamie buried 250 pounds of ANFO under a bulldozer. The blast destroyed the bulldozer, left a deep crater, and scattered some pieces over 500 feet. Adam and Jamie concluded that any explosive charge big enough to move the bulldozer would kill the people inside the
The front half of Black Beauty is on the elevator and the back half of the car is hanging over the edge. Black Beauty takes so much gunfire that the back half of the car is weakened and breaks off when the elevator reaches the top. Even though the back half is missing, the Green Hornet and Kato continue driving Black Beauty. To test this movie myth, Mythbuster staff members converted a car into a replica of Black Beauty, then fired over 200 rounds of submachine gun rounds into the car to recreate the movie car’s condition. The Mythbusters taff then built a rig, using a forklift, to simulate the movie elevator. When they put the car in position and lifted it with the forklift, it got caught and crushed at the second level without being sliced in half. They declared the first half of the myth busted, but Seth Rogen revealed that Black Beauty had a system to split itself in emergencies. The Mythbusters staff then cut the rear half off another car. After several adjustments, they were able to get the front started and drove it a short distance until it hit a wall. Seth then said that Black Beauty had a reserve fuel tank under its hood, so the team installed one in their half-car and took it to a speedway for one more test. With this setup, they were able to complete 20 laps on the speedway,