Explosives Expert Breaks Down Explosions In Movies

Explosives Expert Breaks Down Explosions In Movies | GQ

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Explosives expert Dr. Paul Worsey is here to break down explosives in movies, including 'Speed' (00:28), 'The Abyss' (02:36), 'Mission Impossible: III' (03:52), 'The Naked Gun 2 1/2' (06:03), 'The Dark Knight Rises' (08:15), 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' (10:01), 'The Hurt Locker' (15:06) (20:51), 'The Long Kiss Goodnight' (18:32) and 'Lethal Weapon 3' (23:37).
00:00 Intro
00:28 Speed
02:36 The Abyss
03:52 Mission Impossible: III
06:03 The Naked Gun 2 1/2
08:15 The Dark Knight Rises
10:01 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
15:06 The Hurt Locker
18:32 The Long Kiss Goodnight
20:51 The Hurt Locker
23:37 Lethal Weapon 3
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@KoiKat_ 2 жыл бұрын

"If you want it to go boom, I'm your man." Greatest introduction I've ever heard. 10/10

@ethanholgate2512 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry GQ but how could you do an explosion expert breakdown and not show him a Michael Bay movie explosion just sayin 🤷‍♂️

@mmyers6441 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe he doesn't like Bay movies. Notice he only talks about his favorite films. Each to his own

@ethanholgate2512 2 жыл бұрын

@@mmyers6441 I was just kidding anyways

@mmyers6441 2 жыл бұрын

@@ethanholgate2512 i know 🙃

@ronaldlee7566 2 жыл бұрын

@@mmyers6441 You have your very good own point Sir/Ma'am

@mmyers6441 2 жыл бұрын

@@ronaldlee7566 its siiiir lol

@johankaewberg9512 2 жыл бұрын

In one of the “Fallout” games you can come across a refrigerator in the nuclear wasteland. Opening it, you find a fedora, a whip, and a human skeleton.

@rodri1971 Жыл бұрын

Indiana Jones reference

@danjones2164 2 жыл бұрын

I like how he explains the realism but has an understanding of how Hollywood needs to visualize things.

@proudmisfit4405 2 жыл бұрын

this guy is fun to listen to

@howdareyou41 2 жыл бұрын

sounds a lot like Brian Cox

@1rstTry 2 жыл бұрын

Except he, as a bomb expert, pronounces nuclear wrong 😑

@essexboy95 2 жыл бұрын

@@1rstTry He pronounced it correctly

@1rstTry 2 жыл бұрын

@@essexboy95 you sure about that? It’s pronounced like it’s spelled, nuclear. Not Nuke-you-ler

@alwaysdisputin9930 2 жыл бұрын

@@1rstTry It's good English according to the lexico website (which is powered by the Oxford English Dictionary) nucular Pronunciation /ˈnjuːkjʊlə/ adjective Nuclear. Origin 1940s; earliest use found in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. Alteration of nuclear, representing a colloquial pronunciation.

@Leppymusic 2 жыл бұрын

He had me on the first "if you wanna go boom, I'm your man" 🤣

@danielaramburo7648 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a pick up line to impress a lady.

@Lucaz99 2 жыл бұрын

@@danielaramburo7648 I wouldn’t want to be picked up by a person threatening me with -good times- explosives

@danielaramburo7648 2 жыл бұрын

@@Lucaz99 if he says it in a sensual way, he wants to pleasure you. If he has a serious voice tone….. run away really fast.

@sorrenblitz805 2 жыл бұрын

@@danielaramburo7648 "Annnnnd Boom goes the dynamite." - this guy after sexuals probably

@vasileny.6374 2 жыл бұрын

and lost me at "nukular"

@mwa1254 2 жыл бұрын

His cackle at 11:01 after he states Lead was used in all sorts of household products is priceless. It would be very mentally stimulating to simply sit down in the pub for an evening with this guy.

@slyscafe 9 ай бұрын

I've been out at bonfires on his property with him... It's pretty much how you'd expect. "Burn your tires at night so they can't see the black plumes of smoke hahahaha"

@AndyKraken 2 жыл бұрын

I really love how he explains everything. Factual & educational, with a very entertaining way of telling it

@Kecken123 2 жыл бұрын

Pineapple grenade fragmentation was less predictable than initially believed. The new ones actually fragment as designed.

@xjx9011 2 жыл бұрын

Ended up here randomly, stayed for the whole thing. His accent sounds so classy and dignified. Loved watching him explain things.

@AngelusNielson 2 жыл бұрын

fun fact. Someone actually survived BOTH nukes dropped on japan because he fell into a swimming pool both times. He died in the 90s of old age. So yeah, batman having some comic book suit and diving into the water seems plausible, if comic bookey.

@LorenPechtel 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, especially at a low angle the energy is going to reflect off the water. The radiation won't get very far, either--what comes off the bomb doesn't turn corners and thus it's going to go through a lot of water even when you're pretty shallow. This is what was intended with the much-maligned Davy Crockett--get into a foxhole before the boom and it doesn't matter that you're within the radiation kill zone.

@AngelusNielson 2 жыл бұрын

@@LorenPechtel Still a prime example of military intelligence, the Crockett.

@shadyside79 2 жыл бұрын

Dr. Worsey was my teacher in college. It was a class on fireworks.

@keenanlarsen1639 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a blast

@slyscafe 9 ай бұрын

@@keenanlarsen1639it really was a blast. Can confirm.

@DerDudelino 2 жыл бұрын

Very insightful. When I first saw a real grenade go off, I was actually quite surprised that it's just loud, it's not a massive detonation - it's made to clear a room, aka take out enemies waiting for you there to ambush you. It doesn't destroy the entire room and definitely wouldn't cause a massive fireball destroying an entire floor. That would be quite counter productive, because you typically operate in the same floor with your team.

@dallesamllhals9161 2 жыл бұрын

What grenade type was it? Yup! No flames galore! Royal Life Guards (Denmark) 3 tours in the '00s

@lillonerboi504 2 жыл бұрын

People who don’t take time or have time to look into fragmentation grenades typically overlook the frag part of the name. They don’t recognize that the device is literally just a metal powder container meant to blow to bits, and the bits of the grenade are the real weapon, not the concussive initial blast.

@LorenPechtel 2 жыл бұрын

Soldiers would not want a weapon like a movie grenade--it would be heavy and that would mean they couldn't carry as many. Soldiers like weapons that are just good enough for the job, you do not want to lug around overkill.

@simonjenkin Жыл бұрын

@@LorenPechtel not to mention a stray bullet that hit a movie grenade would be enough to blow up your entire platoon

@mannys9130 Жыл бұрын

@@lillonerboi504 There are 2 main types of kill mechanisms employed by hand grenades. The first is fragmentation which obviously is the focus of a "frag grenade." The other is the plain explosive force and that concussive damage done to the body of nearby targets. The "pineapple" grenade mentioned in the video is a poster child frag grenade. The WW2 German Stielhandgranate meaning "stick grenade" (aka "potato masher" by GIs) relied on the explosive force rather than frag. The warhead was just packed into a thin metal casing, not a thick segmented body like the pineapple. So there are definitely many grenade designs out there which forego frag damage and rely solely on the concussive damage done by the high explosive within the grenade. "Blast lung" is a pretty wicked thing to treat, and missing limbs tend to cause blood loss in rapid fashion. 😸

@Artaimus 2 жыл бұрын

22:50 My housemate was a driver overseas and he has a story about driving with an EOD guy who told him to pull over to the side of the road, at which point the dude just jumps out of the vehicle onto a certain point, declares "it's a dud!" and pulls a IED out of the ground and tosses it into the back of the truck quite casually. According to him most EODs have a fairly relaxed attitude with a "you'll be dead faster then you can notice" mentality.

@midnitesky71 Жыл бұрын

That pretty much sums up what my instructor used to say at the schoolhouse "if you make a mistake your not going to be there to see it"

@zwoodard1 Жыл бұрын

I like this guy! Not too serious, and actually let's the viewer have fun with the video for a change!!

@MegaCooperr 2 жыл бұрын

The look he gave me when he said “sucks them off their foundations” 😳

@myahitt1247 Жыл бұрын

“If you want things to go boom, I’m your guy” I love him🥺❤️

@ionicseeker3392 Жыл бұрын

I love these type of videos it shows directors and producers that it's not too hard to get it accurate and it also puts a ton of knowledge to the viewers but the cherry on top I feel like the people who are asked to come on and do these it must be like their time to shine or something cause you get to show all of your knowledge and years of experience in your profession basically a win win win

@To-mos 2 жыл бұрын

It's a shame he completely missed that the spray on foam froze and broke everything while he was describing explosive foam.

@d4slaimless 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, in a movie there was entirely different mechanism. And rather unrealistic at that.

@kristiankastberg1748 Жыл бұрын

@@d4slaimless you can make endothermic reactions buuut is have no ideer what limits their are to such things and i have no ideer whether that movie was realistic

@sorrenblitz805 Жыл бұрын

@@kristiankastberg1748 it's usually done with liquid nitrogen and is technically possible but liquid nitrogen has to be kept at a certain temperature to stay liquid and carrying a refrigeration unit capable of that in combat is currently not possible.

@d4slaimless Жыл бұрын

@@kristiankastberg1748 endothermic reactions wouldn't be as violent. Because the lower the temperature the slower the reaction. So in process of decreasing the temperature reaction would slow itself. There are some fun experiments when you can freeze thin layer of water. However I never seen or head about experiments where temperature would drop extremely low and as fast. Now as suggested in other comment liquid nitrogen might be possible, but it wouldn't look like this and you would need LARGER amount than shown.

@LalaOwO 2 жыл бұрын

If there's a second round of videos, please show him the Fifth Element's ticking bomb scene and Leon the Professional's grenade explosion! I know one is SiFi but it would be cool to hear his input!

@Jakvortex 2 жыл бұрын

Lol so savvy and confident. You can tell when somebody is truly an expert by the way they talk about the topic, and he is clearly an expert

@talonsid 2 жыл бұрын

Cutting both wires at the same time would possibly short them across the wire cutters, so I definitely wouldn’t do that unless you have ceramic cutters.

@bobbirdsong6825 2 жыл бұрын

or two cutters

@TheNaturalGamer1 2 жыл бұрын

Full send

@andyharris3084 2 жыл бұрын

That was awesome. Dr Worsey is a fascinating and engaging man to watch talk about his craft.

@slyscafe 9 ай бұрын

Agreed. He's brilliant. I've had 4-5 classes by him, and he's exactly like this in class, but amplified.

@dankline7091 2 жыл бұрын

Great commentary on the clips!

@lynn69jackson 2 жыл бұрын

Have you ever noticed that nobody in movies ever gets percussion blast injuries.

@dassemultor6940 2 жыл бұрын

He's so snarky. Immensely enjoyable.

@asdfdfggfd 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting expert, good on camera. Would watch more explosives break downs.

@Your_President_Kanye_East 2 жыл бұрын

0:29 Oh, boy. Imagine that you're trying to disarm a bomb on a speeding bus and it's Harry Dunne guiding you through the process.

@lewiswilliams1893 2 жыл бұрын

And Lloyd Christmas instead of Neo.

@vanVoltaire 2 жыл бұрын

3:00 but when he unscrewed it, there were no bubbles of air, so it was flooded already. Double the fail I guess :P

@LorenPechtel 2 жыл бұрын

Or it's built waterproof. I don't remember the movie but wasn't that pretty deep? It might be easier to build it to be flooded with **fresh** water or some other fluid (I'm thinking of the non-conductive stuff sometimes used for water-cooled PCs--works like water but if it leaks it won't fry your machine.)

@JonOfTheDead23 2 жыл бұрын

This dude is awesome. I could hear him talk about explosives all day long.

@Mike-bs5pi Жыл бұрын

24:30. Yes, he told you to throw the blasting cap away. This is something you should most definitely not do. Do no throw it. Don't put it in the trash. Blasting caps have been known to blow when being crimped in the wrong spot, and there was a marine officer we were told about who tried crimping with his teeth and lost his head. So dont throw it.

@mtraven23 Жыл бұрын

i'll be sure to remember that next time I'm handling a blasting cap!😆😁

@benjaminprietop 2 жыл бұрын

I've put aside watching "The Hurt Locker" for many years, after this video, I don't think I can anymore

@otteotte7698 2 жыл бұрын

Same

@kevinguimond7711 2 жыл бұрын

I'm thinking the same thing for The Long Kiss Goodnight

@1ch0 2 жыл бұрын

Hurt Locker is a great movie.

@Crmsnraider 2 жыл бұрын

Id done the same thing, just not AS many years..It wasn't bad, its a movie, they hollywooded it a bit.

@critter42 2 жыл бұрын

I was living in Orlando when they filmed that Leathal Weapon scene - they had implosion parties around the building (the old Orlando City Hall) and everything - it was wild.

@SqueakyBe 2 жыл бұрын

3:45 I know this was said in jest and its not as if anyone is ever going to need this information (hopefully) But absolutely do NOT cut both wires at the same time! If using metal snips then cutting 2 wires simultaneously may briefly complete the circuit.

@jpbaley2016 2 жыл бұрын

We learned how to build simple bombs (bells instead of explosives) in Criminal Forensics. I placed mine in a paper bag. No one could diffuse it (of course there were no x-rays) because to handle it, I had incorporated a switch that had to be kept closed if you moved it or cut into the bag.

@annarushlau9722 Жыл бұрын

“If you want it to go boom, I’m your man.” What a line! All I could think of is Seamus Finnegan in Harry Potter and Maggie Smith saying, “BOOM!”

@jarowan 2 жыл бұрын

If they do a followup, the slow-mo Swordfish scene is worth a breakdown.

@kronabus199a 2 жыл бұрын

This was awesome! I wish they would have touched on Die Hard with a Vengeance though, that whole movie was centered around bomb threats

@daveburk696 2 жыл бұрын

Note about windshield wipers in Iraq. It can rain substantially in the winter in Iraq. And hurt locker I always thought was one the best directed, yet most inaccurate portrayals of that war.

@sorrenblitz805 2 жыл бұрын

Cinematically it is quite nicely shot. It really does give that desert warzone atmosphere very intensely. But everything the characters do is ridiculous.

@Sparkplugcrazytalk 2 жыл бұрын

Yep the sniper scene is one of the most egregious attacks on logic I've ever seen in a movie lol

@sorrenblitz805 Жыл бұрын

@@Sparkplugcrazytalk or the scene where he realizes he's surrounded by daisy chained bombs and he yanks them out of the ground (they probably weigh 50+ lbs) by the impossibly strong connecting wire.

@LadySugaZilla 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love how this guy explains things lol "crispy" lol Tysm

@stuartkseels 2 жыл бұрын

If I were going to make an IED (and I'm Not, for the record) I would make all the wires the same colour.

@TheNaturalGamer1 2 жыл бұрын

Not all colors hold the same voltage

@morticiaheisenberg9679 Жыл бұрын

I love this guy!! There have been a lot of great people in this series. But I think this guy, the mortician and the MMA guy have been my favorites.

@TheReubenShow 2 жыл бұрын

quality vid. cheers.

@con.troller4183 2 жыл бұрын

Another issue with the first Hurt Locker segment is that the blast is mostly vertical rather than horizontal.

@Nocturnal2010 2 жыл бұрын

Dude is a storyteller 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

@icykickflip 2 жыл бұрын

You know you’re old-school when you say “speeding bullets “

@drrocketman7794 2 жыл бұрын

I did explosive in the Army years ago. An explosion is a bright blink and it's over. This guy is right.

@dizneegirl76 2 жыл бұрын

Haha love this guy's delivery!!!

@paulregula2679 2 жыл бұрын

I love his voice and am terrified by what he would do “ better at “ Definitely someone I want on my side!

@silmarienprince3137 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!!

@cadillacdeville5828 Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍🏾

@candice_ecidnac 2 жыл бұрын

FYI whoever did the captions for this unfortunately didn't know the difference between defuse and diffuse. You defuse a bomb, as in de + fuse, making it inert. You diffuse potpourri. Diffuse means to spread out. The caption writer repeatedly misused diffuse when they should have used defuse in every instance.

@d_ruggs 2 жыл бұрын

that grenade in the long kiss hahaha. ridiculous

@Ottom82 2 жыл бұрын

Hes like a math teacher who knows how to blow things up, very cool

@djdalamar 2 жыл бұрын

I saw Lethal Weapon and thought they were going to talk about the toilet bomb.

@Kierawolf 2 жыл бұрын

this is directed at the explosives expert but there were at least 12 that i could count of those exposed c4 blocks in that car for the lethal weapon 3 one and c4 is high yield so if those boxes were also full then that's more then enough to level that building. granted since it isn't distributed on the support beams like it would be during demolitions its likely that it would cause serious damage to the building likely cause massive instability but wouldn't quite destroy everything quite how it does in the movie.

@Grayest_Fox 2 жыл бұрын

Don't care, you are a furry

@frankmoyer5822 2 жыл бұрын

When I was a teen in the 70s I loved building bigger and bigger explosive devices. I guess I should have pursued a career in it.

@siddarthraj4193 2 жыл бұрын

The grandpa I always wanted😊

@drrocketman7794 2 жыл бұрын

Hurt Locker guy had a bit of metal go through his head at orbital velocity, something like 8 km/sec or up to 30 km/sec

@Debatra. Жыл бұрын

When he mentioned relocating a bomb, the first thing to pop into my head was a *very* different Batman scene. 🤣

@djohnsto2 2 жыл бұрын

If the countdown timer's interval relies on an RLC circuit partially comprised of the impedance of the individual components, starting to cut out things could change the RLC's time constant and cause the timer to run at a different speed.

@ZombieWilfred 2 жыл бұрын

3:58 talks about explosive foam when the foam in the clip isn't explosive, it freezes...

@Keyecomposer 2 жыл бұрын

Well he has to he isn't a cryogenics expert.

@ZombieWilfred 2 жыл бұрын

@@Keyecomposer Yes, I know, that's why they shouldn't have chosen that clip for him to review...

@alwaysdisputin9930 2 жыл бұрын

I dunno but I think maybe it creates a chemical reaction that burns through the metal & that's pretty much his area of expertise?

@perrydoig2872 Жыл бұрын

Doc Worsey has EOD written all over him. Calm and sober, but with a little gallows humor sprinkled in.

@laurenceperkins7468 2 жыл бұрын

Depending on how that digital countdown clock worked, cutting a wire could change the capacitance of the timing circuit and change its speed substantially. Why the builder would leave such a wire just hanging out there is another question, but the effect isn't impossible. Would be great to see a movie where it goes the other way and the clock slows down so they think it's stopped, but really they've just bought a little more time.

@Lucaz99 2 жыл бұрын

Source Code. The bomb goes off the first time because there more than phone detonator. It’s not quite what you said but as close as you will get on Hollywood. EDIT: How the film continues is the question

@nocensorship8092 2 жыл бұрын

or just a fake clock.

@DaveDexterMusic Жыл бұрын

26:19 "there's really not that much explosive there, I think you could outrun it" *entire planet evaporates*

@mollybrown3278 Жыл бұрын

He sounds like a really cool and fun guy

@esk8er900 Жыл бұрын

I love how the bomb wires have RadioShack speaker wire terminals

@lukelebo2778 2 жыл бұрын

More of this guy

@kingarchnyc 2 жыл бұрын

This videos needs to be have at least 10 mil views to be fair! Good job!

@vippsmillennial6336 2 жыл бұрын

20:15 They show a phosphorus-grenade in the movie Munich.

@jasonfitzpatrick2197 2 жыл бұрын

This guy must be incredible at his job, you never hear of bombs going off in Australia.

@SkywalkerSamadhi Жыл бұрын

This guy is great at kid’s birthday parties!!

@HECKproductions Жыл бұрын

the wire color thing was always so stupid to me even as a child i was like "well ill just use my own colors"

@hagalazmultiverze3411 2 жыл бұрын

The description about the hand grenade is a bit off.. There are 2 types of hand grenades (not hand bombs - such as the old WWII German stick grenade): Offensive vs Defensive grenades. The type shown is an Offensive grenade which is smaller than the Defensive grenade. Defensive grenades often have a lining of steel balls inside besides the larger amount of explosives. Where an Offensive grenade takes out a living room (hide behind a couch, and you have a much better chance of surviving), the Defensive grenade will lift the roof tiles (and they'll fall back in place) - on a Scandinavian brick house :D - there's a great video of it here, somewhere.

@Agagnier 2 жыл бұрын

I like this guy does he have his own channel?

@masaharumorimoto4761 2 жыл бұрын

Watched Speed last week, gets better with age!!!!

@ArnoModelstate 2 жыл бұрын

4:43 But the foam does not go BOEM ... the 2 compounds make the metal side brittle so it acts more like an asid ?

@Colonel2005 Жыл бұрын

I was watching this out of the corner of my eye and thought the guy was holding an old time wood pipe and with his voice I really believed it was a pipe and for those way too young a pipe wasn’t always glass and used for Marijuana but was packed with tobacco and sometimes was ordained with detailed wood carving.

@TSkillz407 Жыл бұрын

This guy is my favorite.

@DaveDexterMusic Жыл бұрын

I've always thought that the crystal skull nuke got unfair amounts of hate, so it's nice to see it being fairly critiqued here,

@samuraikitty18 2 жыл бұрын

This guy is great! Fun and informative!

@savethezombies 2 жыл бұрын

18:50 never saw the movie but just watching that clip I thought there was a gas leak where that grenade went off.

@Gazvsagacious 2 жыл бұрын

You didn't ask him about the baby bomb in the Rock? You didn't ask him if he'd ever had to jam his heart with a gigantic syringe "...are you fu****ing nuts?!?!"

@TheMETALMULITIA 2 жыл бұрын

This dude is captivating

@ObjectiveEthics 2 жыл бұрын

I learned 2 things watching this. 1). Boom = bad. 2). Look for the basement!

@bursegsardaukar 2 жыл бұрын

What about the The Dark Knight hospital explosion scene?

@ctakitimu 2 жыл бұрын

I remember learning how to make an explosive using kitchen products. I did it once in my backyard and decided not to pass the information on to anyone else. Safer that way

@graydonpanzica330 Жыл бұрын

This guy is spectacular.

@fahey5719 2 жыл бұрын

Dear Paul, agree with you, but please add this circuit possibility to your menu: in the 2 wire trigger system, besides "sending voltage/current* through the pair, they might _also_ be grounding something at the other end (a relay coil with one end connected to a battery for example) , in this case cutting both wires at the same time wold short them together through clipper blades, and actually trigger the bomb. Cutting them one at a time would be safer.

@LorenPechtel 2 жыл бұрын

If the clippers short the wires no current can reach the cap. A bomb could be built such that shorting the wires triggered a separate detonator but other than that a short won't matter.

@adrielburned6924 2 жыл бұрын

I was hoping he would review the mcgyver 2 booms on a cruise ship.

@ashardalondragnipurake 2 жыл бұрын

is cutting both wires really a good idea? the clippers is steel, so conductive so the moment you cut both you will have copper steel copper and have completed the circuit wouldnt that trigger it? and like you said, it needs to be a circle so any of the wires would have interrupted it, atleast if there are only 2 the advice seems odd to me

@thanatoast4389 2 жыл бұрын

How though? The wires still get cut. If the circuit was complete between the two wires, the explosion would have already happened.

@ashardalondragnipurake 2 жыл бұрын

@@thanatoast4389 if what your cutting is the break in the connection that closes when the timer runs out, you cutting both wires simultaneously, connecting the two wires with the steel of your cutter would complete the loop that wasnt completed before it would only be a complete loop for a moment until the wires are cut and disconnected, but electricity doesnt need long