Benicio managed enough heat to forge metal through a campfire?
also how he managed to build a giant booby trap in the short space of time and where he got the rope from for said booby trap and his other noose that caught tommy lee
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the its only a movie works for die hard but not for something thats trying to be realistic
shareFirst of all as the previous poster mentioned there was coal in the fire so that helped him forge a blade. Second it looks like Aaron returned to the same woods where he killed the two hunters, he could've placed those booby traps before hand and just returned to the same area to lure LT into them.
sharei was wondering the very same thing about forging metal.
anyone who has tried to do it (like me, for example) knows it will not work.
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as you can see it was a pretty rough job. but you can heat metal to glowing like that. he was just heating it up so he could work the metal, not trying to drive the iron out of the metal to make steel since it was already steel.
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I thought it was a good movie up until the point of the knife fabrication. Even if he could get the metal to glow red, he would not have been able to cut it to size. Then there is the time involved. It was a pretty big coincidence that
Tommy Lee stopped chasing him to make a knife out of stone at the exact same time that he's making a metal knife. Also, weren't there helicopters out looking for him? He seemed to be out in the open when he was doing his blacksmith work.
I can suspend my disbelief, but only so much. I thought it was a really cool movie until it got ridiculous.
There's no such thing as a realistic Hollywood movie. That's an oxymoron moron.
sharePress: Are the tracking skills depicted in the film realistic?
Tom Brown, Jr.: All the skills are true. Friedkin first had to see everything in reality before he did it in the film. I taught Tommy how to make a stone knife. The camouflage, the stalking and the tracking are real, but then there are the latitudes that movies take that pisses me off. I mean I can teach a beginning student how to track a wolf that has a trap on it, and to dig down in the snow to find a winter rosette that can be chewed into a poultice that can be used as an antibiotic, but you are not going to get close to a wolf in that state in 2 minutes, maybe 2 months, yes. And the bloody knife fight at the end -- no way it would last 4 minutes, any of those wounds are lethal.