[I did see that this was answered a few years ago but the answer was a little too unscientific] I’m watching the movie and decided to Google it. All the answers are really physics heavy and I’m having trouble understanding. One answer even went on to speak about long distance military shooting, the rotation and curvature of the earth, and the fact that the bullet and earth themselves are both gyroscopes. The Magnus effect was mentioned as well. I still dont understand why it’s not possible.
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Basically, Wanted is based on a comic where the people had legitimate super powers. Curving a bullet is a thing that you’d need magic powers to do.
Think of firing a bullet like throwing a baseball at someone. When you throw the baseball, there’s no way for you to make that baseball change direction in mid air. It goes in the direction you threw it in. You can add a little spin to it when you throw it, but that baseball is going to go straight. It’s not going to change directions.
Curving a bullet would be taking the bullet that is going straight in one direction, and making it change directions. There’s no way to do that without having super powers.
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