Why do giant things in movies move in slow motion?

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Is that realistic? Do ants see us like that?

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Look at big animals walking. Elephants, giraffes… they are not slow at all, since each step is giant (and takes a lot of energy to move that fast and far). But if you’d scale them down to human size and let them take their steps with the same frequency, they would be really slow. 

Same with tiny animals. Scale up an ant to human size, and it’s not like it could run faster than a car. It would take impossibly huge muscles and endurance to move that fast. In fact the ant could probably not run at all since its body is not built for working on such a huge scale, I’m guessing it would find itself too heavy to move.

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