Science in "Transformers"

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The paper shows how the film, "Transformers" contains many elaborations of small truths of science that are interjected with complete falsehoods or impossibilities in order to create a dramatic effect. The paper focuses on four examples that redefine known circumstances of physics and completely rewrite the manner in which objects effect and can be affected by science.

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"The development of conceptual science frequently peppers science fiction, and especially that which can be found within the movie genre. Frequently looking back to older films one comes across concepts of science that have been obtained in some form in real technology, yet in more modern films the mind is stretched to its limits with regard to the way that science interjects and offers explanations. In many modern films, that depict scientific developments the science is a series of partial truths interjected with complete falsehoods, for the sake of the dramatic effect. The truths are simply injected for the sake of hooking the audience. One fantastic example of cinematic extremes is the 2007 film, Transformers. Within the film there are many elaborations of small truths of science coupled with marked falsehoods, or impossibilities. (Bryce & Bay, 2007)"

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