I saw Underworld the other night, and it got me to thinking.
There has been a scene in several (no cite) vampire movies where the vampire jumps off of a tall building, lands gracefully, and walks away. I’m not worried about the apparently required long black coat that flaps in the air on the way down but doesn’t ever catch on anything, I want to know about the boots.
Assuming a body weight of about 180 lbs, would an ordinary pair of boots absorb the force of a ten story drop, or would the vampire wind up shaking scraps of leather off of his feet and trying to look all cool and angsty as he walked away in the rain in his socks?