Re:‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar
by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @01:41AM
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> Can we at least admit to ourselves that what he built would have passed for a bomb in a movie?
In the same way that a person dressed in the black garb worn by stagehands, by theatrical convention, passes as invisible. The appearance of bombs in movies is an artistic convention designed to provide dramatic tension.
> Because while I agree the whole thing was handled poorly, it's not completely implausible to think that was a bomb.
The school action would be even more ludicrously inappropriate if they did think it was a bomb.
In the same way that a person dressed in the black garb worn by stagehands, by theatrical convention, passes as invisible. The appearance of bombs in movies is an artistic convention designed to provide dramatic tension.
> Because while I agree the whole thing was handled poorly, it's not completely implausible to think that was a bomb.
The school action would be even more ludicrously inappropriate if they did think it was a bomb.