The Movie "Backdraft"

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Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Sounds weird....
Yesterday, I just happened to see a movie on Astro, I think it was on channel 411. The name of the movie is "Backdraft", starring Kurt Russell and William Baldwin. In fact, Kurt Rusell is one of my favourite actor. Usually, he got this kinda "manly" voice in his movies. However, in this "Backdraft" movie, he sounded like a 16 years old kid...?!?!? At first, I didn't even recognise that it was him that was acting. But, slowly I think that's him as I knew that he got acted in one of fire-related movie. I calculated that when he acted in that "Backdraft" movie, he was 34 YEARS OLD!!!!! You should have listened to his voice back then...Furthermore, he looked very young in that movie too.

The movie itself....
I kinda love this 1991 movie as it shows us a little bit about the real life-death situations faced by our firemen. It makes us more appreciate of their work. The fire shown in this movie looked really real and it really amaze me. But after you read this Wikipedia website, you will notice that this movie got critised a lot for it's lack of realism! Well, as a normal, non-observant watcher, it's looks real enough for me.

"Backdraft is a 1991 American film directed by Ron Howard and written by Gregory Widen. The film stars Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro and Scott Glenn. Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Jason Gedrick and J.T. Walsh co-star in the film. The story is about firefighters in Chicago on the trail of a serial arsonist. A fictional chemical substance, trychtichlorate, is used by the arsonist to set the fires."


SCENES FROM THE MOVIE "BACKDRAFT"
Source: ScreenRush.Co.Uk



The Movie "Backdraft" Trailer




Learnt something new....

Now, I know there exists such a word, "Backdraft". This is the following excerpts from Wikipedia:

"A backdraft is a situation which can occur when a fire is starved of oxygen; consequently combustion ceases but the fuel gases and smoke remain at high temperature. If oxygen is re-introduced to the fire, eg. by opening a door to a closed room, combustion can restart often resulting in an explosive effect as the gases heat and expand (see also Flashover)"


An Example of a Real "Backdraft" Situation










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