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Movies in general tend to exaggerate, manipulate, and modify the laws of physics in order create a more dramatic cinematic experience; but many times. I will discuss the physical errors in the movies Harry Potter, Final Fantasy: Advent Children, and Wall-E.

1. Harry Potter : Chamber of Secrets – The quidditch scene where Harry and Draco are trying to grab the snitch, Draco hits the tip of his broom on a piece of wood under the stands. It sends him flying in a parabolic arc onto the floor.
1. If something like this were to really happy, Draco would fly forward instead of upward. Like a bike crash, the moment Draco leaves the broom, gravity would send him falling forwards and towards the ground.
2. With the law of inertia, Draco’s body and broom would want to continue moving forward after a crash instead of up.

2. Final Fantasy : Advent children – During Tifa’s fight with Loz, Loz throws tifa at an incredibly fast speed into a wall, but Tifa manages to stick onto the wall in a spiderman like pose.
1. In real life, if Tifa was actually traveling at that speed, she would either hit the wall and break it or be crushed into a million pieces due to the law of inertia.
2. She wouldn’t be able to stop herself and stick to a wall all on her own. Gravity would force her to fall to the ground. Because law of inertia states that objects keep doing what they do, all objects will fall due to gravity. If nothing stops an object from falling, Tifa would not be able to stick to a wall.

3. Wall –E – A scene where eve and wall-e are in space dancing around each other. Eve floats by wall-e using her jet pack but stops abruptly in space as if there was friction.
1. In space, due to the vacuum in space, whatever is in motion stays in motion unless acted upon.
2. Eve would have stopped only if she directed her jet pack in the other direction, but even if she did she would start moving in the other direction instead of stop abruptly. The only way an object would be able to stop abruptly in the angle she stopped in is if there was friction under her.

4. Conclusion –
1. restating thesis
2. resolution