A municipal bus driver in San Francisco has gone viral with a detailed breakdown of the bus fight sequence in Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings.
In general, the driver, Mack (@that_mc), is complimentary about a lot of the fight scene, but there are still a number of things that he pointed out that the film missed.
The first thing he noted is that the bus is the 1 California route, but that it “is headed south on Noe at 21st St, they are seriously off route!” He liked the design of the seats on the bus, although he thinks they look harder to clean than the real ones. He noted that the ads in the background on the bus was “a real ad for the jazz and blues festival you can find in muni buses.”
However, the main thing that he really pins his whole position on the fight on is quite simply that as soon as the fight started, a bus driver would “pop my parking brake and open the doors.” In addition, although Razor Fist cuts the brake line, Mack explains, “Quick digression on how Air Brakes work. Energy sword arm man cut the brake lines, which would let all the air out of the system. When this happens, a backup, mechanical brake called the Spring Brake activates. The spring brake held open by air pressure. If there is no pressure, the brake is applied, and the wheels will not turn. Air brakes have a warning, that is audible as a very loud, continuous buzzer, whenever the air pressure drops below a certain threshold. A bus operator will stop the bus when this low air pressure warning goes off, because if the air brakes keep loosing pressure, the spring brakes WILL activate, and the bus is going to stop very very suddenly.”
So, again, the real message is that the bus would have stopped very early in the fight.
Another critique Mack has is that the bus driver is wearing headphones, is not wearing his seatbelt and turns around to look a what is going on instead of using his mirror so he doesn’t take his eyes off of the road.
However, Mack loved the passenger taking video (very accurate) and was impressed with Shang-Chi’s bus driving, noting, “This is top quality bus driving. Also get the line ‘Every time I try to drive a bus I get yelled at’ which a) lol and b) that’s just being a bus operator. We get yelled at whenever we try to drive a bus too.” Shang-Chi even uses the mirror to check the back! He also joked that “Every bus operator cheers when the scooters get mashed to shreds.”
However, when Katy takes over driving, she looks over her shoulder, as well, which is a no-no. Also, she lets Shang-Chi into the bus when he had been thrown out of it, which Mack noted, “I’m impressed that she knew how to operate the door lever. When the doors are open, an interlock activates that prevents the bus from moving. This would also have been an option to try for an out of control bus.”
He closed by noting Katy’s face when the bus finally stops is the look he gives when he stops too far away from the curb.
This is the look I give passengers when I stopped too far from the curb. Good bus stops are hard. I hope you enjoyed my thread as much as I enjoyed this scene. pic.twitter.com/fSDohbowjf
— Mack, yes, That Mack (@that_mc) November 13, 2021
After the Twitter thread blew up, Mack made sure to thank all of the people involved in the film and also ask that people try to thank their bus drivers when they get off, as they always appreciate it.
Source: Twitter
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