So, what is your question. John

 

I was watching Prison Break last night (the wife likes it) and noticed that the guy was looking out of the bars on the window with no glass in this dirty, old, corroded, moldy, run down prison in the damp Panama jungle. Problem is the bars appeared to be fresh welded, cold rolled thin-wall tubing and 1 1/2" X 1/8" flat stock within less than an hour or so. No oxidation whatsoever on the steel or welds!!

Do they think everyone is stupid enough to buy this crap? YES!!!

 

haha any other normal person would just enjoy the show, but a welder... OH NO, they did not use cold rolled thin-wall tubing and 1 1/2" X 1/8" flat stock that was fresh welded about an hour and a half ago!!! :laugh:

 

Maybe they used a welding double?

Now that would be a job... stunt welder to the stars!

 

Why, on that tv show 7 days, are they always cutting something in the room with the sphere? One would think it was sorta a clean room.

 

How do they weld without burning the paint?, I wanna learn that trick.

 

It's called JB weld.

 

John,

Right. I guess the questions are: Have you seen a Hollywood-type movie that accurately portrays a welding (or cutting) operation? If so, what is the movie, and do you think the actor himself/herself may actually have the welding skill implied by the scene?

A bit off topic, a pet peeve is the obligatory movie scene in a "bombed-out" factory with sparks flying all over the place or ladles/pools of molten metal, all with no apparent welders, cutters, foundry workers or steelmakers anywhere about. Example is the climax of one of the Terminator movies, I forget which one.

David

 

...Have you seen a Hollywood-type movie that accurately portrays a welding (or cutting) operation?
...do you think the actor himself/herself may actually have the welding skill implied by the scene?...

All of the Three Stooges, seemed proficient with blow torch operation! :laugh:

 

I remember the A-Team being pretty convincing.

 

Remember all the welding scenes in the Dukes of Hazzard?

 

I've seen things in a weld shop that should be made into a movie....but nobody would believe them.....

 

You just never know what skills they might have. Harrison Ford is supposed to be a world class carpenter (that's what he did before he made it). One of the Carradine brothers, David I think, has his own foundry and is considered to be somewhat of an expert on the subject. As far as movies go I cannot recall ever seeing a realistic cutting or welding operation in one.

 

Harrison used a little of that skill in " Witness ". Seems I heard he got his first big break doing some carpentry for Speilburg.

 

Anyone remember the movie "Thief" with James Caan? They cut into the safe with an oxygen lance. They built a heck of a fire with the rig and everything looked pretty kosher until one of the guys started spraying the sparks (a lot of sparks) landing on the carpet on the floor with a little CO2 fire extinguisher and putting them out. All around it was an excellent movie.

 

Hang on, do you guys means to tell me that stuff that happens in movies isn't true?

 

That's right. Now everything you read on the internet is true. LOL

 

I know there are several episodes of Stargate SG-1 where they use a plasma cutter to get through a heavy door. I like how they normally use a full welding helmet, while in real life I generally just use my shade 5 cutting glasses.

 

While there was no actual welding in the movie No Country for Old Men < (link), I love the seen where Woody Harrelson is questioning Josh Brolin about being a welder :laugh:
It's a great movie!

 

erhm :blush: my official reason for buying my first welder about a year ago was so that i could build better deer stands (and it sure has allowed me to!), but the honest truth is that i thought llewelyn (josh brolins character) was so cool that i just had to try his trade. i also bought my first pair of cowboy boots after watching that movie :blush: :laugh:

 

What, nobody ever watched The Perfect Storm? Sully's intro is a shot of him blasting sparks in the direction of the camera with an Oxy Acetylene torch. And then, the very believable shot of Billy Tyne swinging from a boom, torch in hand, even under water without snuffing the flame and with one hand, he cuts through the chain to free the Andrea Gail from an uncontrollable stabilizer. :blush2:

{Not that I doubt the endless possibilities on the water!!}

How about the Poseidon Adventure? Freed through plate steel one inch thick!!

Oh, even more beleivable, the crew of the Seaview in episode after episode breaks out the UW welding crew to make repairs after tangling with all manner of hideous underwater obstacles!! :laugh:

..and what about Gojira?? Hmmm....:blob2:

 

Moz,

If they used a welding double it was pretty convincing. The Hopkins character (Burt Munro) is welding along and flips his hood up--it's Hopkins.

 

There is also a scene in the beginning of Conspiricy Theory with a fellow sparking something that was SUPPOSED to look like welding. It looked a lot like he was just striking the arc over and over...just not as bright.

One think to keep in mind, Sir A. Hopkins is dern good actor. Good actors study their subjects a lot. I bet he ran a few beads before the first scene was shot...that was a great movie, BTW.

 

I think Russell Crow learnt to play the violin for a role had once. He just would have learn to play a few songs on it, but it would have been tough.
Actors learn to ride horses, fight with swords, speak other languages, play musical instruments, dance etc etc etc for their roles. I suspect many of them would able to learn to lay a few beads if the director felt it was a good idea.

Raining again here. Worst summer I can remember.

Scott

 

That would be fairly easy for him to do, he is a guitarist, all he has to do is tune the violin the same way as the top 4 strings (D,G,B,E) of the guitar and the fingering would be the same, he could then have a sound track and look very convincing, it would be the bow that gave the trouble.

 

3rd Shift was so much fun. God I was a bum, but the girls were fun!!

 

The absolute WORST movie scene with welding was RED OCTOBER.
Laughable, as they were doing a repair with a stick welder out of position on stainless in a reactor room of a submarine.
Even a scratch start inverter TIG would have made more sense.

Movie directors really need to start doing their homework.
I AM AVAILABLE for consultation. HAHAHAHHHAH

 

I just saw No Country For Old Men in the theatre.
No welding scenes, but a little welding talk between the characters, Lewellyn (a welder on the run with 2 million cash) and Carson (a bounty hunter).

It went something like this:
Carson- What do you do? (making small talk)
Lewellyn- I'm retired.
C- Well what did you do?
L- I was a welder.
C- Acetylene, mig, tig?
L- All of 'em. If it can be welded, I welded it.
C- Cast iron?
L- Yup.
C- I said weld, not braze! ... Pot metal?
L- What'd I say? (irritated)

 

yeah I made reference to that movie a few posts back...
great film!

 

under siege has a decent cutting scene in it where seagull opened a hatch to free the crew.
the rest of the scenes like when the bad guys were welding that same hatch closed with a o/a torch then it turned into a stick welder were terrible