Snake expert rates 11 snake attacks in movies for accuracy

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. Thanks to the Field Museum's Amphibians & Reptiles Department for loaning specimens for the shoot: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/department/amphibians-reptiles Follow Sara here: https://twitter.com/Sara_and_Snakes https://sararuane.com/