Netflix’s Project Power tells the story of a world in which superpowers are unlocked via a special pill that users take to gain unique abilities. As one scene in the film explains, the selection of powers stored in the pills are all derived from real life animals with special gifts or abilities (chameleons, wolverine frogs, etc.), and that these manifest in selected individuals, while potentially killing others. However, when one of the first humans to experiment with the Power drug, the protagonist Art, aka “The Major” (Jamie Foxx), learned that he possessed the powers of one of the deadliest (and most unlikely) beings. in the animal kingdom!
Warning: Project power SPOILERS Follow!
The backstory of Art “The Major” is one of the central mysteries of Project power – as his reason is that he never wants to take the Power drug again. In his conversations with his partner / hostage, young Power-dealer Robin (Dominique Fishback), The Major states that the discovery of his superpower resulted in mass destruction and death, which still haunt him to this day.
In the climactic showdown of the movie between The Major and the mysterious Teleios corporation that developed the Power drug, the Major discovers that the animal he got his power from was no one else … The Gun Shrimp! What’s more: the power of the gun shrimp proves to be the most powerful in the bundle: by taking the Power drug during its climactic face-off with Teleios operatives, The Major generates a destructive shock wave that disintegrates the soldiers , with the explosive energy of the rain and even its own bullets!
As you can see in the video above, Netflix’s Project power is actually drawn to a real phenomenon in nature, from one of the most unlikely sources. The pistol shrimp have the unique ability to form “bubble balls” with a plunger socket mechanism within their snapper appendage. The plunger strikes the socket and expels water with violent force and speed, either beautifully or just killing prey, so that the pistol shrimp can drag it back to a hollow and eat.
At a shot of about 105 feet, the shot of pistol shrimp is so fast that it makes a pressure difference so large that bubbles swell in the water and then collapse at rapid speed. These cavitation bubbles fall apart in milliseconds, producing a temperature equal to the surface of the sun (8,000 ° F), while also generating a sound (210 decibels) that is significantly louder than a gun (150 decibels). In fact, a colony of gunpowder that has a shooting range is so overwhelmingly noisy that it can disrupt marine sonar equipment!
Of course, Project power takes the concept of the pistol yarn and gives it a fantastic human application. However, Project power manages to teach us a little about nature and the animal kingdom that many people did not know before.
Project power now streaming on Netflix.
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