 Well, hello there my beautiful lovely talented and delightful internet friends welcome back to my channel Thank you so much for joining me here today for a video that I've had way too much fun preparing for and making I'm really glad that you're here, especially for this one What we're going to be doing today. What you and I shall partake in is reviewing for accuracy a cinematic masterpiece Skyscraper now the reason why we are gonna be going through this film today is because the main character Played by none other than Dwayne the Rock Johnson is a below knee amputee Just like yours truly now this piece of film genius was recommended to me by quite a few of you my lovely watchers And what my community wants I must deliver on so without further ado Let's dive in to an amputee watches and reviews for accuracy and plot holes Skyscraper by the way, if you want to make Sophie who is located behind me very happy You could hit that like button. Maybe that subscribe button. 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I'm just saying that it would make her feel a lot better about life She's obviously a very depressed little puppy I must let you know that there will be spoilers contained within the rest of this video So we're gonna start with a brief overview of the plot and then dive into some very specific scenes The basic storyline of this film is that will Sawyer who is played by Dwayne the Rock Johnson is a badass FBI agent But unfortunately at the beginning of the film he gets in this explosion where he has to lose his leg The story picks up years later where he is now married the nurse who helped save his life They have two adorable kids together and he's living life as a bologna amputee Now his job is to evaluate the safety and security of large building one of his old FBI buddies That's hooked him up with the largest skyscraper in the world Which is set to open all he has to do is evaluate the safety the security and give it a green light to get insured However in an unexpected twist his friend turns on him and tries to frame him for this crime that is being committed As he and his friend are fighting the skyscraper is set on fire And the worst thing is that will's family is just a few floors above where the fire is happening Basically, there are bad guys who want something out of the building and the only way is to burn it down It'll make sense later this my friends is where the action just gets left chefs kiss Fantastic he climbs up a super crane gets into the building fights a lot of bad guys and eventually Saves the day however along this journey we get we could access to some pretty fantastic moments So let's take a deeper look at some of these scenes from an amputee's perspective See number one. This is the first time we see will after the accident and he's getting ready for his day I actually really appreciated how Realistic this scene was we see his residual limb and him putting on the liner and then clicking in his prosthetic leg I appreciated the accuracy of him kind of struggling to pull his pants down over the socket because that can be a real issue Sometimes this whole scene was fantastically really accurate and even cooler than that I realized that the leg that they are using in this film is the same leg that I actually have this is the Oscar Pro Flex XC torsion and you will note that we have the same freaking leg now the way that it attaches to us is Slightly different, but it's the same leg. I was like, I'm famous I'm in a movie or more accurately a copy of my mechanical parts are in the film But still I'm famous one of the sweetest moments and also the most accurate moments in this film Comes when his wife comes in after he's put his leg on is like, hey, are you okay? He's like, yeah, just like stuff, right? I can't tell you how many times I've told my husband that as I'm like trying to get my leg on for the day And it's not fitting right or I'm just sore from walking the day before or whatever and he's like, hey, are you good? And oftentimes my response is yeah, you know leg stuff. It kind of covers this multitude of yeah I'm all right, but there are some minor frustrations as it applies to my leg So it's at this point that will goes off for the day Evaluates the building and is meeting with his friend later when he discovers that his friend is actually a bad guy And they get into this pretty badass fight one of the three most fantastic moments in this film comes when his friend tries to shoot him In the leg but shoots his prosthetic leg and the bullet just ricochets off of it. Everything's fine I've never shot carbon fiber, but I'm pretty sure if someone shot my leg almost point blank It would it would at least leave leave a mark, but I cannot confirm nor deny the accuracy of this Considering that I have never been shot in my prosthetic leg with a gun Thank God in the midst of this scuffle his friend pulls off his leg I don't think that this is particularly accurate because of the type of leg that he has Earlier in the film we see that he has a pin lock system Which basically means at the end of his liner, which is the part that actually makes contact with his skin We see that little pin that then clicks into the socket The only way to get that to unclick. Well, allow me to demonstrate. So this right here is a pin and lock system You see this part right here. There's like a metal rod metal pin that then listen closely Clicks in and then you're good to go. So his friend goes to pull off his leg and really just Pulls it off. I don't really think it's that feasible that that would ever happen Considering that the only way to get this to unhook is to push a button right here that will then release it aside from that It's it's pretty tight in there either the bad guy there has a ridiculous amount of strength Or perhaps the scene was a little bit exaggerated I really liked seeing a fight scene with an amputee like as he is missing his leg as he's hopping around And still being a badass Realistically, there is a lot that you can do on one leg Especially if you're pretty strong if you're a big guy like he is so this fight scene is not entirely beyond the imagination Of what could have really happened So his ex-friend now enemy dies more bad guys are out to get him and he has to get back into the skyscraper because he's just Found out that his family is still there But how is he gonna get to the hundredth floor of a burning building clearly by climbing the crane? That's right next to the building. So that's what he does We see him with a lot of speed and agility climbing up this very very tall structure So he gets the top of this crane and realizes the only way to get in the building is to take a running leap off the end of it Oh, this is everything I hope for this is everything I was looking for in this kind of an action-packed film now I'll be honest here as he's making this running leap off the crane into the building I was fully prepared to criticize how inaccurate the way he was gonna run was gonna look because I assume They were just gonna have like run like a normal two-legged person and just sort of overlooked the fact that he had a prosthetic leg on But I think they actually did an okay job of Making his gate look like what it might have actually looked like if you're running on this kind of a prosthetic leg I've tried it. It doesn't look good. It doesn't feel good You really need a running blade to be able to run well or really run it all But you do kind of see him limping and I appreciate that accuracy now Do I think that an amputee could run off the top of a super crane and jump into the hundredth floor of a burning building? Heck yes, I do so let's add five amputee points for that one So he makes in the building is attending some of his wounds I mean he takes out a hammer and starts hammering his prosthetic foot took me a minute to figure out why this is I think it's because the angle of his ankle got messed up in all the action Right and that can happen the alignment of your ankle of some of the screws are loose or you're in some kind of an Accident can absolutely get messed up and you can end up with a foot that's like turned 90 degrees inward I don't think that I would recommend using a hammer to get it back into place But if I was trying to save my family from a burning building and I just jumped off a crane Maybe I would do the same thing I'm gonna be a stickler for details and point out that at this moment We also see his ankle bent in a way that it couldn't have been bent if he was actually an amputee I'll just deduct a half a point this time for that one But then we see it again here and again here So I'm sorry Dwayne the Rock Johnson and skyscraper But I am gonna have to deduct another five amputee accuracy points for these continued grievous mistakes And now my friends that we have reached the scene the scene that this whole movie for me Anyways has been leading up to I believe one of the trailers was just this scene Oh because it's so good anyways He's trying to get in a particular part of the building to shut it down and restart it So as he's on the outside of the skyscraper as you might imagine something happens It explodes his leg is caught in the rope and it just so happens It's his prosthetic leg and as he is hanging upside down we see this moment It almost looks like the prosthetic ankle extends there for a second which it doesn't do But I think what they're trying to say is that the pin had like started to give way and had fully Released just yet so he notices this happening and as his prosthesis disconnects from his body He leaps up and grabs onto his prosthetic leg and climbs his way back up that building damn it Now is as strictly accurate as an amputee I mean I can't prove that it could never happen So I'll give you this one Once he gets back in the building he realized that the doors are closing that he needs to get in And he pulls a brilliant move Now this is something that us amputees have an advantage of Because if you were just a normal two-legged with two boring meatfoot Do you think you could do this? No I didn't think so This is ridiculous, hilarious and also a little bit awesome Again that's quick thinking I do think that closing metal security doors would probably shatter a socket But again I can't prove that that would never happen So we're gonna give it a thumbs up So his prosthetic has now saved him twice Once from plummeting to his death because he was able to grab onto it And a second time because he was able to get back into that building And thus save his life and save his family There is this one moment that I thought was surprisingly accurate Where he's talking to the owner of the building who's trapped in the building Who has the thing that the bad guys want And then comes to this realization realizing The bad guys knew that he would grab whatever was most important to him If his house was burning down As someone who was personally lost Not one but two houses to fires I can tell you that this is so very accurate When you have minutes or even seconds to get what you need And get out so that you can survive At least in my experience you do grab the things that matter the most to you For me because the rest of my family was safe It was getting my pets out and getting my journals I didn't have time to think further than that And so I did grab the things that are most important to me So this plot point holds up Now as the story goes on They fight bad guys, they're in this epic battle At the end there's fire raging And screens everywhere and it's very cinematic and cool I don't want to be a stickler but I'm gonna be If the flames are already up there It means that they have climbed about 50 stories So 50 stories of a skyscraper is on fire They would all be long dead from smoke inhalation But I don't think that we're particularly concerned About strict accuracy for skyscraper So I'll let it slide We all breathe a sigh of relief as the movie comes to its close The bad guys are defeated The rock is reunited with his family And the end credits roll So I actually kind of not ironically love this movie It was really fun to watch Were there plot holes? Yes Was it ridiculous? Yes Could amputees do half of the things in that movie? No Because human beings could not do half of the things in those movies I really do appreciate that you can tell that there was some thought Put into trying to keep the amputee part of his story Accurate With like the scene in the beginning Going through the process of putting on his leg And having issues pulling his pants over the sock Because that's a very real issue And other little bits and pieces in the film Were there a number of inaccuracies? Yes, absolutely But overall it was a lot of fun to watch I do think it's cool to see a major like summer blockbuster movie Featuring an amputee So in preparing to make this video I looked a little bit into some of the chatter Around skyscraper And one issue that was raised That I think is important to mention Is the idea that Should able-bodied actors play disabled characters When there are disabled actors Who could play those characters As she is a bilateral above-the-knee amputee She's written an open letter to Duane Asking him to rethink the roles he takes A study done last year says amputees Are the most marginalized group in Hollywood And while she's thrilled that there's a big budget movie Featuring an amputee kicking butt She says it also means performers with disabilities Are being sidelined So that able-bodied actors can play at What it's like to live life with a disability What we lose in that is a genuine authentic perspective Like the rock is not a baloney amputee Is it in any way insulting or demeaning Or robbing people of opportunities To give this role to someone who has two legs To play at being disabled To act at being disabled I've made a whole video about this before I think it's a complicated issue, honestly For me personally anyways I think one of the biggest issues Is that there are disabled actors out there Who are not able to find work Because they're overlooked for disabled roles For a variety of reasons I do think that needs to be changed Do I think that the rock is a terrible person For portraying an amputee in a major film That probably wouldn't have gotten made If his name wasn't attached to it No, I don't think that's wrong I appreciate that the consulted with real life amputees For parts of this film I do really hope that as time goes on Actual amputees might be able to portray Amputees on the silver screen But I do think that it is a complicated conversation Like I said, I made a whole video about that I'll link it up above That video about disability in Hollywood Is actually one of my favorite videos I've ever made So I would love it if you'd go check it out But all in all, I'd give this film a solid Amputee stamp of approval Was it accurate? No Are we expecting accuracy from an action film? Also, no It was entertaining There were explosions It was cool to see an amputee playing Like a kick-ass character Because you don't really see that a lot I appreciate some of the work and the effort They put in behind the scenes To try and make this real Even if they didn't quite hit the mark With some amputee-specific scenes And movements and issues But hey All in all, I think it was enjoyable If you're looking for a slightly mind-numbing action film Featuring Dwayne The Rock Johnson Check it out It's like four bucks on YouTube to rent it or Amazon So I had a lot of fun making this video I would love it if you would leave suggestions For other like films or TV shows For me to review down below I've already done Grey's Anatomy I'm in the process of doing one for Fault in Our Stars I'd really love to hear other movies That you would like me to take a look at As an amputee, as a disabled person To see those upcoming videos Don't forget to hit that like button Hit that subscribe button And if you're feeling extra generous Ring that bell notification Thank you so much for listening Thank you to my patrons For supporting these videos I cannot thank each and every one of you enough Your generosity is truly appreciated Never taken for granted Thank you If you're interested in joining my Patreon I would love to have you there Patreon is a way that you can financially support Creators that you care about Or you want to support in return You get a pretty awesome community And you get some special perks Like behind the scenes Puppy and kitty videos Early access to announcements And more So check it out Link on screen or down below And to you watching this video right now Thank you so much For spending a few minutes out of your day Here with me today You could be anywhere in the world Doing anything You chose to hang out with me Talk about Skyscraper for a little while That means a lot to me So thank you I love you guys I'm thinking about you And I will see you in the next video Bye guys