Gold appears in many movies. It is shiny and valuable, and is the number one material choice for old civilizations making weird things to leave behind. However, gold is quite heavy. One gold brick weighs almost 30 pounds. In movies, the issue of the density of gold in rarely addressed, and people regularly carry very large amounts of gold with little to no inconveniences. Here are some of the worst examples.
Night at Museum has a solid gold tablet. The golden tablet of the Pharaoh Akhmenrah is supposed to be 24 caret gold. This would be very heavy, but even a kid runs around with it no problem.
The Mummy, the old 1999 movie, has the book of the dead. It is carried for a significant amount of time and the weight is not addressed.
Raiders of the Lost Arc the idol would weight more than sand, but Indy thinks this is a good comparison and when he picks it up it seems quite light.
I could also expand this to be about density in general, and talk about movies where they are under water and ice sinks, in Lord of the Rings where column sinks in lava even though it is more dense then him, the part in Independence Day where the alien ship is "550 kilometers in diameter and In terms of mass, it's a quarter the size of the moon," which would mean the ship is crazy dense, especially because when we look at the sip it is mostly hollow, and how the bagged fish in the end of Finding Nemo don't sink into the ocean even though the water in their bags is also salt water.
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