Snake Expert Rates 9 Snake Attacks In Movies | How Real Is It? | Insider
Sara Ruane, a reptile and amphibian curator at the Field Museum, rates snake attacks in movies based on their realism.
She separates fact from fiction regarding whether you can suck venom out of a snake bite in "Babylon" (2022), starring Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt; and "True Grit" (2010), starring Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, and Matt Damon. She explains how anacondas and pythons catch and consume their prey, as seen in "Anaconda" (1997), starring Jon Voight, Jennifer Lopez, and Ice Cube; and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (2001), starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Alan Rickman. She advises on how to avoid getting bit by a cobra, as seen in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), starring Harrison Ford. She breaks down the differences between venomous and nonvenomous snakes in "Snakes on a Plane" (2006), starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kenan Thompson, and Julianna Margulies. She looks at the way different characters seek to treat snake bites in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill: Vol. 2" (2004), starring Uma Thurman, Michael Madsen, and Daryl Hannah; and "Mud" (2012), starring Matthew McConaughey. She talks about how antivenom works in "Bullet Train" (2022), starring Brad Pitt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Bad Bunny.
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@@Insider you guys did really good on her reading the cards behind the camera, no woman that looks like her knows ANYTHING about snakes... she knows more about shopping than she does snakes.
That is the most sexist idiotic comment i have ever seen. So just because she dresses nicely she isnt a snake expert? Go outside. @@anamegoeshere
@@anamegoesherebruh lmao
@@anamegoeshereC'mon bruh, judging people based on their appearance ? She literally has her twitter linked below in the description, she seems legit
"you could just do nothing and it would be as effective" I am going to use this line in my daily life.
Aka "Hakuna Matata".
It applies to so many things, seriously.
I have a co-worker who says this all the time about some of the staff we work with.
Can anybody see my comment? KZhead is censoring my comments. If I reply to somebody, I can't see my comment after refreshing. If I post a reply to the video, I can see it.
The scene in Raiders not only has snakes and legless lizards, but also rubber snakes and coils of pipe mixed in because the set was too large to completely fill with live rented snakes. There’s a hilarious behind the scenes shot of Steven Spielberg getting “angry” at his snake actors for getting too close to the torches that are supposed to scare them off. Because snakes are cold blooded, they actually drew closer and closer to the open flames, leading to him holding one up and jokingly saying to it, “You do like fire… in the script, you’re supposed to hate fire. Why do you like fire? You’re ruining my movie!”
Look, Spielberg, you should have done research on snake behaviour before making your film.
Also...that scene has a bunch of snakes that don't live in Africa.
Additionally, that famous shot of Indy looking at the cobra featured a safety glass between Harrison Ford and the snake. Apparently, right after the take, the cobra spew venom onto the glass and was taken out of the set, since no more scenes were required with it. There were some minor reflections visible that was coming out of the safety glass, but they removed it for the blu ray release.
@@denizzagra6423 interesting!
I recall the part about having to use some prop snakes and always reminds me of Hitchcock's The Birds were they had to do the same thing. A lot. Glad I wasn't doing the work involved but that kind of stuff before good CGI is fascinating.
I love how the foley artists decided that “sipping coffee” was the best sound effect to use for sucking the venom out of a snake bite.
I was struck by how aggressive that sounded too 😂 I laughed out loud at that one
It caught me so off guard, I had to pause the video I was laughing too much
Can ANYBODY see my comment? KZhead is censoring my comments. If I refresh, my post is deleted.
Love when people dispute how snakes are negatively portrayed in film
i think it's annoying it's a fking movie.
@@CajunReaper95So what?
Todo el mundo habla de los tiburones pero nunca de las serpientes
I'm really glad Sara Ruana highlighted the difference between "venom" and "poison". Most people don't understand the distinction and need to learn about it.
It makes my eye twitch when I hear that a snake is poisonous in a show. I want to yell "No! Who wrote that?!"
If I bite it, and I die, it's poison. If it bites me, and I die, it's venom.
People REALLY don’t understand how boring snakes are. Snakes are probably the most zen, relaxed and pacifistic animals ever. I’ve worked with reptiles since highschool, kept snakes as pets since I was very young, and see snakes in the wild on a regular basis. Not one time has a snake ever gone out of its way to do harm. They’re the definition of “just minding my own business”
I have a ball python. People joke about them being "pet rocks" which is pretty accurate. She gets a little more active in the summer when it's warmer, but mostly just sits in one of her hides. She's also about as smart as a rock too lol. Some snake species are super intelligent, but ball pythons have candy where their brains should be. She's great though.
@@suchnothing I have a ball python, corn snake, and a Vietnamese blue beauty rat snake. The last of which is the most active and ornery of the 3 by far, but even then she will still not do much a lot of the time. Even during handling the most she'll do is hiss and maybe the odd bite attempt here or there if she's in a particularly bad mood. Snakes want nothing more than to be left alone
snek just chillin.
@@suchnothingi had a ball python like 20 years back and she was pretty darn smart, she could even slide open the lid of the Vivarium if u didnt put the locking key in.
@Swiftkitten88 that's pretty awesome. One time mine was trying to push through the sliding glass door of her enclosure, so I slid it open so she could come out, and she continued to try to push through the glass right next to the opening. It took her an embarrassingly long time to find the wide open part of the door.
The whole idea of sucking out venom always seemed idiotic to me. Like, the heart is a pump. You're not going to out-suck that.
Yea I can’t believe they used it in a recent film. it’s insane.
@@metalinyourhead3604It makes sense if the character in the story thinks it helps.
And why is it only snake venom that people try to suck out? Why not poison darts, or knockout darts? Surely it's exactly the same in movie logic 😅
Oh, it helped in the movie, forget my comment. I was referring to the earlier clip.
I'm built different
Thoroughly enjoyed this expert, had a very simple and easy to understand approach to explaining her expertise, would love to see her again :)
She's right at 0:37 we had a few corn and milk snakes that hid in our buckets , baskets, and even our shoes outside for days and we wouldn't know until we lifted or moved them My mom and dad are petrified of snakes so I always get them and put them in the woods as I'm a huge snake lover I had a big one that somehow got into our lawnmower's engine (about 6 feet long it looked like the milk snake in that clip the black and yellow stripped one) and thankfully didn't die but I took it out and gently put in the woods behind our backyard
@thepubknight6144 thank you for looking after and rescuing those snakes! Im also the one appointed in the family to de-snake-ify our yard. So many cute grass snakes relocated to a safer environment
So the way they said every sentence like it was a question didn't bother you? I'd rather listen to fingernails on a chalk board for 10 minutes than have her back in the show.
Thanks for watching!
@@thepubknight6144I live in a small town in upstate NY and at my parents house which is very wooded areas around them, they always have the snake infestation in the Summertime and sometimes late Spring/early Fall, and it can be a problem when letting our dogs off the leash because I know one dog is too smart/too inquisitive to just leave the snake alone.
Once lifted up a discarded mudflap on the side of the road, disturbing the big ol' rattler underneath. She was so chill about it that my first instinct was, "pet? Pet the snake?" I did not. But it was a close thing.
The instinct to pet is strong, isn't it?
@@MsKathleenbHumanity's first instinct when they see an animal they like is instantly, "Pet?" I have to keep myself from petting every reptile I see when I'm at work 🤣
I’m not a herpetologist, but grew up in the mountain passes in mining towns, and had to deal with wildlife, snakes my whole life. I started managing a company that moved oil rigs, and discovered rattlesnakes around the shipping yard. I assumed there would be someone could come take them away. I radio in, and these big tough truckers come swaggering out to save me. They killed it with long rods. Royally ticked me off. Next one I found I pinned and caught it, gripping it behind the jaw, and holding it near the tail, one so it would not wrap, and two snakes tend to defecate and or regurgitate when stressed. I kicked on the truck bay, one opened the door and freaked out dashing away. I asked them to bring me a sack or a big pail to keep my little (about 4 foot) friend in. Not one of those big brave truckers would come near me. So I asked one to run to my truck and open the canopy and I let him go in the back. Took him down to the river, had a few anxious moments coaxing him out of the truck bed, but we both survived unscathed. And I promptly started a side business rescuing rattlesnake’s from businesses and homes. 😂😂
good on you for not resorting to violence! snake's gonna snake, no need to hurt them for that
You are an angel 💖💖
😍💖i fear sneaks but i can't stand them get hurt.. you warmed my heart 💖🌻
If you understand this you won't feel them @@yellowcatmonkey
@@reduxys4819 😊👍
6:55 I'm a little surprised that she didn't call out the fact that there's a rattlesnake sound effect played over a python
It could have been cut. I’ve seen someone who did one of them post that they recorded over an hour and only 20 minutes makes the Final Cut.
The idea of being calm is so accurate. I lived in the prairies and would go out in the spring to hibernacula where western prairie rattlesnakes plus other species would emerge. You might have 10 or more snakes within feet of you but they are just sunning yourself. In fact they are so still that more than once I'd get too close before I saw one and then it would rattle its tail. The only time one ever flared up at me but never tried to strike was when I was walking away and thought I was far enough away that I was moving quickly and I startled one in the grass and it flared up in surprise. I also flared up in surprise and moved quickly in the other direction.
I remember I saw a corn snake when I was 17 walking in the woods behind my house and it slowly climbed up my shoulder and licked my nose 😂😂 and let me handle it They're so awesome and curious
@@thepubknight6144 Corn snakes can walk? Who knew?
@@thepubknight6144 corn snakes are really fun, I know someone who has a couple as pets. They're generally really chill, and have the cutest little faces.
I was helping at a camp, and on a path to camp fire was a rattlesnake. We put a large bucket over it slowly, then I sat on it, while the ~100 or so 9-11 years walked by. We didn't want the snake getting scared, causing the kids to get scared, and then something happening, even if unlikely. So, I sat there for 5 or so minutes, then got up, slowly removed the bucket toward myself, and watched as the snake calmly went in the other direction. The number of people terrified at this always astounds me. All kinds of wild life there - I had a 1 pound or so tarantula crawl on my pants while I was talking with someone, it hung out for about 30 seconds, then moved on.
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I love seeing people talk about their passion/career
Working in the jungles for many years, where we have coral and barba maria (the two deadly species), I can confirm her attitude that snakes are generally calm and by no means out to fight with people. Truth is you will.never see them, especially if you come to work in an area, they will be long gone asap. Occasionally you hear of a death, but either a person running quickly down a trail at night and stepped on one, or someone sticking their hands into move piles of rocks or logs.... I.E. Only in cases where the snake was startled or forced to be defensive. And even then it only happens to a handful of people per year out of the 10s of thousands who are out here every day, so still extremely rare.
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Yup, I had a close encounter in the jungle of Thailand with a King Cobra, big guy too, came within about 2 feet of me, chest high as I was next to some elevation. It never flared its hood, just continued on his way calm as could be. I even got a picture to prove it!
Barba amarilla? The name for the Bothrops species, aka a Fer-de-Lance, or Terciopelo? Oh, I'd love to see one of those in the wild!
When I first told my mom that a lot of the 'snakes' in that scene were actually legless lizards, she was HORRIFIED. I had to very quickly explain to her that, no, they did NOT remove the legs from hundreds of lizards for that scene, legless lizards are an actual thing, and they are very much not a snake.
Loved this video, and a especially the bit discussing rear fanged snakes vs front fanged and their different delivery methods
FDL = fer-de-lance?
@@ettinakitten5047 Yup. :-)
Thanks for watching!
Sara Ruane!?!! I have read all of your papers on lampropeltis taxonomy! Amazing!
I've run across a rather good sized black snake on a job site, it was in a building and we needed to get it out. Put on thick gloves and picked it up just behind the head, it did wrap a bit around my arm, but I just carried it outside and let it go. It ran (slithered) off as fast as it could.
Depending on where you were, it was probably either a bull snake, black rat snake, or black king snake. They can all get pretty big. All are completely harmless, even if they bit you it wouldn't hurt that bad. Good on you for relocating it, a lot of people just kill them when they find them. And even though their bites aren't that serious, gloves are never a bad idea anyways. Why risk an infected wound if you don't have to?
Also could’ve been an Eastern Indigo, giant black snake on the east
Absolutely love the mental imagery of "ran off as fast as it could"
I hate the way these amazing animals are demonized in media. I've been a snake keeper of venomous and non-venomous for years, and have always hated the way they're portrayed... as "mean" or "aggressive," which isn't true at all. But just because they aren't "mean" doesn't mean they aren't ready to give a bite if they feel their life is threatened... These animals are just misunderstood, and its up to us to educate the public to show people they shouldn't be afraid of them, but just respect them. Leave them alone and they'll leave you alone.
Completely agree with you. Sharks also get the same treatment as well, which is just as infuriating
But u have to think about this, there is no smoke without a fire. Have you ever asked why these animals are depicted this way?
@@luyolomenziwa2112 because some people are consumed by fear and ignorance. There's your answer
@@marktrigg467 nah I don't think so.
@@luyolomenziwa2112 nah, I think so. Sorry you're too close minded and stubborn to see that. Ignorant too
6:53 I love how they put the scary suspenseful music over the cutest little baby in the world Just look at that little guy, he wouldn't hurt a fly.
Love their smiles 😊
Yeah there's just burms chilling 😂
The bullet train boomslang pissed me off so much I kept ranting about it for days 🤣
Lies
It's still an awesome movie.
The movie was an underrated movie in 2022!! Seems like there’s always snakes in the Indiana Jones movies!! LOL he says “I hate snakes” in every single one, but Harrison LOVES snakes for real!!
I've been into herpetology and ichthyology since I was a teenager, just so awesome.
Super informative. The sucking out the venom trope nonsense is universal.
I love this series. Its fun, whilst also extremely interesting hearing experts talk about their subject (and often the absurdity of what they are watching).
Loved this one. She was really good, hope she comes back.
Thank you for all the information Sara!
drink everytime sara says "typically" 😸💖great vid🌻i love listening these experts drop knowledge so much😍
Old fart here. 50, 60 years ago, snake-bite kits were common. (We had a few, because we spent a lot of time in diamondback habitat.) It included a little cutting tool for making an incision, as well as a suction device. But yeah, all that's been officially defunct for a long, long time now.
The really funny thing regarding the "those snakes aren't really attacking" bit is in the DVD extras, they say that at some point the cobra whipped sideways and actually spat venom across the sheet of plexiglas separating him from Harrison Ford.
Well, cobras can be a bit highstrung and stress can lead to them lashing out, even resorting to spitting venom if they need to. Filming with venomous snakes is a risky business, as any amount of repetitive filming can lead to high stress levels for a snake.
That is not a spitting cobra, but a monocled cobra; it couldn't spit its venom even if it tried!
I'm glad that she's helping to dispel some of the ludicrous things that people are told about snakes. I'm very passionate about snakes. I only have one as a pet (for now) but I've studied them for years and they're absolutely incredible animals that have been painted as evil for literally no reason.
Love hearing reviews and analyses from properly trained and educated experts. She seems particularly competent. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
They copied Clint’s Reptiles video from like 2 years ago
Thank you for all the information!
Missed opportunity with the Harry Potter reaction. I was hoping she would react to the Basilisk and talk about the features that other herpetologists have pointed out that indicate that it’s actually not a snake (best example being that its lower mandibles are fused together and can’t open sideways like those of real snakes).
In universe a basilisk is created by hatching a chicken egg under a toad so….
Is there an official name for a snake-like creature that cannot split its mandables? Is that just a legless lizard? 🤔
@@MrNicoJac Legless lizards are a specific group of lizards. It isn't a blanket term.
Yeah I would argue that basilisks aren't quite snakes, though I guess Harry can speak to snakes and to the basilisk but not to other lizards which implies that the basilisk and snakes are more closely related to each other than they are to other lizards. Considering the purpose of have non-fused lower mandibles, the basilisk wouldn't actually need to have that since it's so much larger than anything it could possibly have as a food source in Europe.
@@suchnothing Smol question: Would a baby basilisk need separate lower mandibles to grow big? 🤔 It comes out of a chicken egg, but ate rats etc down there, right? Seems like it's early years might be... challenging
Really informative, great video!
She is so generous towards "Snakes on a plane" and "Anaconda." Especially "Anaconda"...where the snake is either able to somehow fly and/or magically levitate itself. Not to mention really not looking like a real snake at all...
I couldn’t understand her rating system. She gave bullet train a 1 but gave those two a 4.. she even ranked Harry Potter as higher, even though the snake spoke. (I am a huge Harry Potter fan) but I just don’t understand her rating system
@@brennonmelvin2586I mean, I get you, but the final ratings on these videos are really not the ultimate point of them. It's not like they're actually trying to have criteria and keep a pattern. The truly interesting and fun part is the experts explaining and contextualizing the scenes from the movies. Maybe consider the ratings as just a feeling for the moment? 😅
@@brennonmelvin2586 Fellow huge HP fan, you must also remember how in the book CoS, Rowling writes that the Basilisk can smell Harry. In the movie, they changed it to "hear". As a reptile enthusiast pre-teen, this pissed me off from the very first watch. I even turned to my sister and said "snakes can't hear!".
Maybe she’s using the Eugene Lee Yang rating system? “I’m right, you’re wrong, shut up.” 😂😂
best part of the video was giving harry potter's talking and blinking snake a 6/10 simply because of the accurate portrayal of how harmless and non aggressive snakes are. the poor things are so misunderstood :(
Thank you for sharing the difference between venom and poison! I needed to hear that!
“Anaconda” really made me believe anacondas be like that
Great video, very informative
My favourite rear-fanged snaked is the hognose. They have adorable little faces, and the chance if envenomation on a person is low. They just cute.
They have that smile expression like pythons 😊
Isn't the hognose the one that AronRa said made him bleed for days? He's fine, obviously, but apparently the venom made the bleed completely refuse to clot until he'd metabolised the venom, or something like that.
@@SableagleSome people (very rare) have an allergy to hognose venom. While normally, it would make someone's hand swell up like a wasp or bee sting, if they hit a vein, it could bleed for a while if left barely treated. Snake bites bleed, idk what else to say.
Excellent and informative
She is so on point with all the information, love it
I am deathly afraid of snakes, but I am still watching this because I support those passionate in their field with protecting animals. But I am terrified.
Check out Snake Discovery's channel here on youtube. She does a great job explaining snake behavior and making them a lot less scary.
@@zyephenz8466 I appreciate your recommendation, but unfortunately my fear is completely irrational. I know a ton of educational material about snakes. I have tried so hard to try and learn and not be as scared for years, but nothing works. I had a dream as a child where a snake killed me and a laid for hours in excruciating pain dying. When I woke up I remembered every second of the traumatic pain and have been terrified ever since. I KNOW not all are bad and not all are venomous, I know 99% wouldn’t hurt me at all, but I can’t help it. My therapist equals it to PTSD in a way. Even though the trama didn’t actually happen, my brain thinks it did. So now I have this trauma response and panic to them. If I even see a PHOTO of one my heart starts racing and I get so scared I almost vomit. To be honest I didn’t watch this, I listened to it. But I couldn’t look at the screen.
@@zyephenz8466YAY, SNAKE DISCOVERY! Tbh, the way Emily gets excited over whatever reptiles she gets her hands on is adorable.
@@zyephenz8466 I subscribed to that channel for such a long time and occasionally had good days where I was able to watch some of the videos. However, that's the thing with phobias. They are not necessarily grounded in rational thinking. I could never go into someone's place who owns snakes. And encountering them in the wild makes me go into immediate flight mode although I do know they want to be left alone. To me, it is mainly the way they move which spooks me. I like to watch videos like this to learn a bit, but it will not really help me with my nonsensical fear.
@@aleathtuthranduriel For some people education and learning about something unknown will replace what was once fear with insight. But for a true phobia I think the only way to really overcome it is to work with an expert in exposure therapy. I was personally always fascinated with snakes and never had any fear to overcome, but if it it something ingrained from a young age that would be harder to overcome for sure. I hope you can do such a thing, because snakes are really amazing creatures and frankly it's great that you're trying. It's more than a lot of people do when it comes to snakes.
There’s the 1981 movie titled Venom that has a Black Mamba in it. Saw it in the theatre and still remember the death throes scene of someone bit by it. I have no idea how accurate it was but it looked like a pretty horrific way to die.
I remember the trailer from that movie. I was 6 and it scared me so much. The trailer came in between cartoons.
I mean, after the sweating, nausea, vomiting, muscle twitching, ataxia and diarrhoea; death throes probably isn't accurate. By the time you're dying you're probably stationary, seized up, near unconcious (or outright unconcious), waiting to die.
No one is gonna believe me when I say this, but I have absolutely no fear whatsoever of snakes. I just don't understand the phobia. Is it the way they look? Do their eyes creep people out? Is it the way they slither? Or the sound of their hiss? Obviously, venom is scary, but I'm talking more about the look and feel of a snake. So many people get terrified just looking at one, I don't get it.
Most people who have a phobia of something can't explain it. I have a phobia of clowns, I don't know why but I just don't like them.
Ditto with me & my fear of balloons, lol.
Haha me too, I kinda like them. What scares me tho is bugs, scales and 6 legs and spikes and whatever tf they got is repulsive
I think Hollywood actually amps up people's phobias with villainous depictions of snakes tbh. Kids who grow up with snakes or were exposed to them at a young age are usually fine around snakes, but if all you see as a kid are scary TV snakes that will do anything to bite you and inject you with deadly venom, then you have no realistic perspective on snakes and you only know them as the villains and vermin that you see on TV.
It's all of those things. I did hold a ball python once. Soon as I started to get comfortable with it, it started flicking it's tongue and moving closer to my face. And that's when I hastily gave it back to my friend.
_Snakes on a Plane_ was at no point intended to be realistic 😂.
Yeah, but really, when they even chose to includes things that I, who is not big fan of reptiles, knew were harmless... Then it's really, really bad. Watching it with people who tried to take the movie seriously was...interesting, though.
Neither was Anaconda!! Kill Bill was the most realistic of all these movies with snakes
Educative and practical... I like that most of those who do this, rather than condemn practicality actually explain some basis... Kudos!
11:00 The way I've heard it described before is "if you bite it and you die, it's poison. If it bites you and you die, it's venom." 😁
She is sharp! Nice selection of films, you could add Halloween 2: Season of the Witch, the Boris Karloff film "Snake People" or even the movie "Sssss!", but I'd like to add Lonesome Dove specifically the scene where the boy is killed by moccasins that were "stirred up by a storm". There are exceptions to every rule, just because snakes don't nest doesn't mean I haven't seen 7 at once that might as well have been a "nest". An exception to her statement about bite strength is milksnakes despite having a small mouth have been known to chomp down and refuse to let go. If someone was barehandling a gaboon viper and it sunk in its 2" fangs, there's no possibility of that being a "dry bite" that won't require antivenin.
2 1/2 inch fangs mind you! Longest fangs in the world
Boom Slang... It's always funny as a South African hearing english speakers say it. It literally translates to Tree Snake. Try pronouncing it as "Boohem slung" or maybe "Boowim Slung"
So people say a different way
"Boam" is more what one would say to pronounce it somewhat correctly It is the Dutch word for tree Sorry for bringing it over there 😬
"Boom" is a lot like "loam," familiar to gardeners. It's ridiculous that people still can't pronounce "Das Boot" correctly. "Bo" as in "bonk," "ot" and in "clot," Bo-ot. It means boat and is pronounced almost exactly like the English word boat. Unser Boot ist gar kein Stiefel!
I'm an English speaker and even I know it's pronounce Boo'em Slung. Hearing it as "Bewm Sleng" or "Boam Sleng" is just so wrong.
As a fellow South African, this is one of my pet hates. The scientists know all their Latin names/species/subspecies/family/order, every single behaviour, but never learn how to pronounce Boomslang correctly, even after it being explained to them. I am part of the reptile community, own 8 snakes (pythons and boas), Bearded Dragons, geckos and exotic mammals (tenrecs), and various Tarantulas.
6:54 you cant tell me that snake dosent look like puppy acting and looking at its coach like "did i do good, i dose a good, i scary"
This was so educational!
This was nice, learned quite a few new things.
what was not realistic was the types of animals put together in that pit in Raiders (given where it was supposed to be located geographically). However since the main character had fear of snakes (or animals resembling snakes), once he saw them, that fear would kick in even if the danger was lower (apart of that cobra). The danger there is more of a kind of stepping on one of those animals by accident more than anything else. so from perspective of a character behavior it was accurate (once the fear will kick in, all the logic or knowledge may go away).
I think the snakes were put there on purpose by people though, since it was supposed to be a trap to catch intruders, so they may have gotten the animals from all over the place.
The fact she didn't give snakes on a plane a 10 out of 10 makes me credit her expertise. Lol
Snakes on a Plane is the best damn movie of all time. It’s that good. At least, that’s what Samuel L Jackson recorded on the phone number promotion they set up for the movie.
As a fan of these amazing legless creatures and someone who is tired of how they are mostly portrayed in the media, it's so refreshing to hear a snake expert's take on the accuracy of how snakes really behave and what you do when you are bitten. Thank you.
There is a old movie called Sssssssss. It's basically Snakes on a Plane 30 years before Snakes on a Plane. I wonder what she would rate it
1:26 Yeah, I've seen the kind of bites non-venomous snake owners get, and I've gotten cat scratches that look much worse.
What an unusually intelligent video. Ms Ruana is an excellent expert to have had on and gave the video real effort. Bravo. She is a really great ambassador of the museum and herpetology generally. And women in science as well. I hope lots of kids and adults for that matter see this video. The best way to overcone fear is through education and this video will have done a lot of good for people and snakes that are relying on us for protection as they play their role in their ecosystems.
On the early VHS copies of Raiders of the Lost Ark you could see a camera being reflected off a pane of glass that was placed between Indy & the cobra
Love when people debunk this kinda stuff. I'm a reptile owner but haven't always liked snakes, but it's really neat to be able to learn more about these little (non)danger noodles. I don't mind em now. 😃
Wish they had her talk about Lonesome Dove. Watching that as a young child and seeing the water moccasin scene really effected me and made me afraid of snakes for the rest of my life. I wouldn't say it's a crippling fear. I'll certainly scream like a girl seeing a snake in the wild but calm down pretty quickly once I can identify it.
You mean to tell me that snakes are grossly misrepresented in movies that are trying to make them out as extremely dangerous and aggressive? I'm shocked!
Snakes are misrepresented in popular media since the Old Testament… or maybe then goinv even back to ancient Mesopotamia myths from which Old Testament has taken a lot
6:53 I love how this snake was just chilling there, and was like “Sup, bro?”
Her crisp voice and cadence is so nice
I've always wondered if a high pressure, thin stream, of water or saline would flush the venom out, if done in time. But you are right, things will be absorbed and enzymes working so fast, and so on, virtually any post-bite attempt to get rid of or dilute venom will be too late. For hemorrhagic venoms, calm and anti-venom and medical attention is best treatment (tourniquets are not good, they may slow dispersal of venom, but it makes for more damage around the bite area) and for higly neurotoxic venoms, I know that wrapping limbs with pressure bandages has been an accepted way to slow venom spread (I guess if you are bitten by something with both high necrotic and neurotoxic effects...just get antivenin as soon as you can, and get medical support!). Nice video, informative, thanks!
You'd be more likely to just flush the blood out. The venom is likely the same density as blood, so flushing would do nothing other than either mixing the venom in better or desanguinating the patient sooner than intended.
This is for the most part why I never watch movies with snakes in them. Majority of the time its an action movie where the director & producer(s) never invest ANY time in terms of researching because they care more about the idea of suspense more than realism. I was also expecting the snakes on the plane movie to be a 1 because of just how inaccurate it was, but I can definitely agree with her on the Bullet Train movie.
Probably the worst "inaccurate animals" scene I've ever seen was a scene (I think in Wicked?) where a character was magically turned into a rat and then swarmed and cannibalized by other rats. Firstly, rats don't do that - they'd only ever eat another rat postmortem and even that's unlikely (rats have a lot of instincts around avoiding food poisoning, and eating your own species is really risky), and rats don't swarm prey like some sort of ant colony. And secondly, the rats in that scene showed absolutely no aggressive body language. It honestly looked more like the rat playing the transformed character was smeared in raspberry jam and the other rats were cleaning them off, while periodically some set person applied more jam. Also, I'd love to see a video like this about rats. They're absolute sweethearts who get portrayed very poorly and inaccurately in fiction.
I agree because anybody knows enough about snakes knows boomslangs are a vibrant green color! And green mambas are kind of a dull green or olive colored green! The black mamba in Kill Bill is really the most accurate one in all these movies
That'd be a good video, indeed...the actual science compared to popular horror films like "Willard" (1971) and "Ben" (1972).@kitten5047
@@David_Theisen The colour of Boomslang can change due to locality. Males can be a bright green, but can also be black and yellow or reddish in colour. Females can be a duller brown/olive.
I think the reason even newer movies have the sucking out the venom is because we’ve all been taught, besides semi recently, that sucking out the venom helps. I know it doesn’t help but a lot of people used to do this because they thought they helped.
It is way too easy to perpetuate stupidity these days - with access to knowledge being the most accessible it's ever been. It would take 30 seconds or less for a character to say that's not effective - this is what should be done.
"Snakes on a plane" should have got a 10/10...because I really believed Sam Jackson was sick of those MFing snakes, on that MFing plane.
The outro, nice!
the most heartbreaking scene for any snake lover would be that snake scene from the first friday the 13th movie from 1980
That still pisses me off to this day, and makes me think of what I'd do to someone who did that to my pet that they paid to make an appearance on a movie for.
I don't remember that
I don’t remember a snake in that movie
There was a short scene where they come into the cabin and there's a snake on the floor, one of the characters cuts it's head off with a machete. Was not fake though. They actually killed this handler's pet rat snake also without even telling the guy they were going to kill it. @@David_Theisen
well now i'm crying
Rattlers definitely do not want to be bothered and will just ignore you more often than not but if you do happen upon their territory will just rattle and make a ton of noise as if to say, "leave me alone". Tried camping during mating season for them once and that was an interesting experience, came across one about every hour.
i have learned more about snakes from this one video than i have at school or various snake fact books from the library
As it turns out, domain experts have a lot of knowledge about their fields. I love listening to people who know a lot and are good at conveying it. :) But don’t let that discourage you from learning about things through other sources. It’s still a worthwhile endeavor.
Five minutes in and I'm embarrassed I thought I had a passing knowledge of snakes. This is Fascinating!
I wanna see expert experts evaluating experts on experts.
I think she was a bit generous with the rating here on all the movies. Anaconda is definitely a 1. The Anaconda doesn't even look like an Anaconda. It has these weird forward facing human-esk eyes and it moves lighting fast for probably one of the slowest snakes in thew world. It eats the man super fast and then regurgitates him so that it can eat again... No snake regurgitates it's food just so it can eat more, as regurgitation is actually pretty traumatic for snakes and they have to recover afterwards sometimes for weeks. Just... nothing remotely approaching accurate to snake behavior or physiology. I'd also say that last scene where they had the tourniquet on the kid's leg is probably outdated/potentially dangerous information since concentrating tissue destroying venom in an area instead of allowing it to disperse can actually make the damage much worse, at least for something with hemotoxic venom like a Water moccasin, (which aren't really as dangerous as most people think they are) For a neurotoxic snake bite it might be more useful, though the only snake bite that would help for in the US are Coral snakes which are quite rare occurrences. I'd also add that attempting to suck venom from someone's wound could introduce dangerous bacteria from your mouth that would make the trauma worse. I do appreciate the video though since I was literally searching this channel last month for to see if they had a snake expert movie review video.
Fantastic commentary
When did Katy Perry became a Snake expert ?
I think snakes are fascinating! When I was a kid, we had a ‘bug spray’ or exterminator guy come over to spray our house down. Me and my brother were outside when we found a little snake and caught it in a bug catcher before showing it to the guy. Turns out it was some type of venomous snake (I’m not sure which species) but me and my brother were freaked out and fascinated.
As a kid growing up in the 1970s, every other tv show had a bloody rattle snake in it. And every time some ding dong came across the snake, they would freeze in shock and just look at it like a twonk until the snake bit them. As a kid I was left wondering if these snakes somehow hypnotised people or something. Turns out it was just lazy writing. And then the characters usually fell into quick sand next.
9:59 That's weird, I guess I didn't miss much with the True Grit remake because in the original she got bit because she was pissing the rattler off because she kept whacking it with a dried up bush as she freaked out since it was so close.
Raiders, regardless of the snake situation, is a nearly flawless action/adventure movie. If you ever have the opportunity to see it on the big screen you absolutely should.
Any other South Africans have their soul crushed when she said "Boomslang"? Great vid tho😁
Americans struggle with foreign words :)
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I have been living out of city in Australia for 10 years, brown snakes are common and the venom is bad. Yet have never seen one, they hide well and I try not to seek.
Surely, if you have a controlled volume of a particular venom, you could create an antivenom dosage specifically for that specific dosage of venom
I took a drink every time she says "in reality" and I just got out of the coma from it
8:57 - "They act the way I'd expect people to act" lol pretty much
I have a huge fear of snakes, even just by looking at them slithering around gives me the heebie jeebies. I think a lot of it stems from watching the media with snakes as the antagonists. I clicked on the video because I was curious and hearing that they're mostly chill animals makes me ease up a bit on my negative feelings about snakes 👀
1:30 The biggest problem with the Indiana Clip for me is the variety of snakes (most of which are from the wrong continent or at minimum thousands of miles out side their natural range).
My reality of Anaconda has been shattered, I definitely needed an expert to tell me that movie was unrealistic I thought it was real life.
Grade for Indiana Jones was harsh given that everything was realistic... granted some weren't snakes, but the Naja compensates for these
Spot on about the difference between venom and poison. And it should be pointed out that a bite really hurts even from a non venomous snake.
Seriously! Showing her a Harry Potter movie and asking her how real is it!? You might as well show her The Jungle Book and ask her how real is Kaa .
Or Sir Hiss in Robin Hood.
Hi! So, I have three dogs and when we go on hikes my dad likes to let them off-leash sometimes so they can run around and sniff everything, but they often go a little bit off the trail. Like, they stay within a couple feet of us, but still off the trail, and my biggest worry is that my very loud and rambunctious dog Lily will find a rattlesnake, scare it by barking at it, and get bit. Is that a realistic concern? Or would the snake hear our footsteps and race off before my dogs could even get close?
The thing of it is the more active the person being bit is, the faster the venom spreds.
A couple things to add. The Black Mamba is one of the only snakes that could be considered aggressive, meaning when feeling threatened they are known to give chase. they are also very quick and prone to biting quickly so that kill bill scene is actually pretty realistic, even if the guy does die too quickly. another good rule is to not tourniquet a hemotoxic snake bite like they do in mud. The reasoning is since the toxin attacks tissue, you dont want to keep that toxin in a specific area because it could do more damage to that specific limb. For a Neurotoxic bite the rules are a little bit different, but one still probably shouldnt apply a tourniquet unless they know that is the right course of action, and should primarily focus on transportation to medical care.
What if they bitting in where heart? Instant dead ?
@@VITAS874 directly into the heart? probably. but i dont think any snake really has the ability to penetrate that deep into the chest. with a snake bite over the heart it really comes down to the type of venom, that specific persons reaction to the venom, and how much was injected.
As a snake owner who has been bit, both by two of mine and by a wild ratsnake (these were all my fault, btw), being bit, at least by a colubrid or python, does not hurt that much. It feels like accidentally pricking yourself with a sewing needle. Just clean the bite thoroughly and it'll be gone within the next few days. I am also a roleplayer who typically plays the doctor. I hate it when people get bit by a snake for drama (this is a computer game, fyi) and come to me, wailing that they're dying. I'm like, first of all, we're in freaking England, the only venomous snake here is the adder, you got bit by a garter snake. Second, a snake bites once, not five times. Third, yes, if it's venomous, you will die without treatment, but its not instantaneous. It was a quick bite, you'll be dead in a few hours or days if you're lucky, quit whining.
The original True Grit did the snake scene much more realistically with Maddie swatting the snake out of fear. Thus, getting it to strike to make her back off.
Honesty this actually lowered my Fear of Snakes a lot! 😁 Which I didn't expect