How to Properly Deactivate a Bomb

Movies have been made for decades -- many of them involve a bomb being deactivated. When I see a scene in which a bomb is deactivated 1-3 seconds before it's about to explode, I'm not impressed by the script writing. If I ever write a screenplay that includes a scene in which a bomb has to be deactivated, creativity will be my primary objective. In my story, the bomb will have one wire. That wire will be cut and the timer will stop. The timer's digital display will read no less than sixteen hundred seconds remaining.

My idea lacks suspense, but it contains originality. I'm confident I'll be able to write some intensity into the remaining 118 minutes of the film. I have ideas for other methods of building an original sequence of events into a script. For your reading enjoyment, I present you with an excerpt of thoughts from my head.

"Major Davenport, permission to speak freely?"

"Can it wait Lieutenant Jefferson? I'm trying to deactivate this bomb."

"No sir, I don't believe it can wait, Sir."

"Very well, Lieutenant, go ahead."

"Major, Sir, that's not a bomb. That's a turkey, Sir."

"What did you say, Lieutenant?"

"Sir, that's a turke... read full story

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