Throughout the movie, the Gary Oldman character is shown discovering or investigating several basic principles of physics.
I can recall 'gravity', where he is struck with an apple while lying under a tree. There was also somethign with relative speed of descent, with a feather and i think a cannonball?
Does anyone recall all the physic properties that are explored by Oldman's character?
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
I'm not at all sure that I remember them all. It has been quite a while since I've seen the movie.
But off the top of head, besides the ones already mentioned:
aerodynamics - paper airplane
steam turbines - pinwheel over boiling kettle
elastic collisions (and force being passed through multiple solid bodies) - the swinging row of clay pots
"Watch closely." *pulls clay pot away* *lets lose and it smashes*
"Interesting."
His curious little face when he discovers something new made me want to hug him.
Slow up there tinkerbell. You'll never sing the same if your teeth ain't your own.
Watching this movie was a lot of fun noticing these. I wish more films would play up to subtlety. I think the first thing he 'discovered' was the hamburger. Which if you think about all the discoveries he made throughout, it's strange that the first person to question the scientific principles of the world was Guildenstern with the coins. Though Rosencrantz was the one flipping the coin, Guild was the one referring to the nature of probability, acknowledging that it is only our perception of the world that makes us believe after a long series of 'heads' it should come up tails, but that in actuality it always has an equal chance for either and so may continue going ends indefinitely. From then on it became a running gag that Guild missed all of Rosencrantz's subsequent observations.