Outline for the First Term Paper

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Intro/Thesis: Many action movies have unrealistic physics when it comes to firing guns because there is often little or no recoil, which violates the action/reaction principle of physics.
Movies:

Eraser (1996)

John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

Commando (1985)
Body:
  • Guns in real life, how they work
  • Why they recoil/ every action must have an equal and opposite reaction
  • In these scenes, the gun does not recoil, or does not recoil as much as it should for the devastating force it fires
  • Describing why movie guns do not recoil (because often firing blanks, or using a prop gun and sound, flash, and sometimes shell casings are added in post-production)

Conclusion:
If the movies wanted to be more realistic, there would be recoil, but sometimes it's just cooler to have a tough guy unaffected by gun recoil.

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