It's kind of pathetic that the cops, who clearly have the ability to do so, didn't bother to check their records to see if there was any such murder actually committed. After all, if this tape was real, it would constitute evidence, wouldn't it?

Ah, The Blair Witch Project, that takes me back. 1999! Seems like only a few years ago.

The chaps over at "Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics" convincingly debunk the myth that bullets make sparks when they hit things, which suggests either that the police in America aren't use to shooting things, or they're deliberately trying to mis-inform film-makers.

And the report doesn't state that the murder *isn't* real, only that it's in a film; the director could have been going for ultimate realism, or the whole thing might have been an elaborate way to kill someone and cover it up. I don't believe this for a second, but still.

As for being evidence of something, why would the police want to investigate this kind of thing? According to the report it happens all the time; the residents of Compton must love it, and it would be morally wrong to stop their fun.

Bullets do sometimes make sparks when they hit, just not quite as often as movie effects people seem to think. Copper-jacketed or lead bullets won't usually spark on metal, although steel-jacketed ones will. And any bullet may cause sparks when they hit concrete or rocks, although that's probably more a result of particles of the concrete banging together than from the bullet itself. I can't actually see the movie, but it looks from the little picture like there's a concrete sidewalk and wall there, so there could very well be some sparks. Probably not as much sparking as the special effects people added in, though.

And of course, any tracer or exploding bullet will cause lots of sparks, but I doubt any of those were used in the movie.

I was once the victim of a Drive-By Shouting...this jerk yelled the nastiest crap, like "Go back to school, get a degree, and make your Mother proud, you lazy shlub", and "Register to vote, you non-participant of Democracy, you"...it really hurt, y'know? Oh, wait...ShoOting... sorry, my mistake

So did you notice any sparks, Hairy? Or were you too stunned by the verbal onslaught to notice such details?

actually, I did notice some "sparks", but not at that time..."Sparks" was the name of a bad band in the early '80s, memorable only for the fact that they had one member who had a Chaplinesque mustache and mascara...I once went into a record store in NYC with my brother, and was horrified to see that Sparks was there for a record signing appearance...my bro and I were the only customers in the store, and the band kept looking at us expecting we would recognize them..., we did...that's why we bought a Bill Nelson tape instead...that poor dork with the bad 'stache looked so pitiful, but we laughed and laughed as we left the store...then we were shot by a passing gang...true story

aww, the link wont work... :(

oh, wait, there it is!

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right on, cranky.