Defusing Movie Bombs

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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... 8-)

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