Only time I saw this being adressed was in a episode of Jay Mohr’ ACTION!
Would you watch the movie if they did? Most people wouldn’t.
Is that show (Action) still on?
It doesn’t need to be GRAPHIC, just realistic. Like, some policeman entering a place where Arnold Schwerkasteñazewsky just snuffed out like, 476 mobsters, and saying “phew! smells like DEATH!”
Most people who die in the movies are wearing pants. For the most part it just wouldn’t be all that noticeable. And besides this was hollywood. It isn’t like they potray violence in a realistic manner to begin with.
Marc
Well, because that would be a crap way to die!!!
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People in movies, and on television get shot in the chest, and have a wound the size of a dime, with a black ring, and small smudge of bright red. This wound proves instantly fatal, or allows several moments during which the soon to be deceased may utter his final lines, usually both lucid, and expository, or clever, and memorable.
In real life the differences are significant long before the possible expulsion of the contents of the anal cavity, or the bladder. Gunshots on TV don’t even knock people down. Most viewers are not really interested in the unpleasant details of violent murder. Those who are interested vastly prefer to see exaggerations of flying blood, and body parts. Realism is a very minor part of drama, even when it is present at all.
Small caliber bullets can in fact leave only small external wounds. The fact that that becomes a standard is unrealistic. Many people do expel urine or feces when they die. Not all do. That minor detail is certainly not the major distortion of the true facts of violence, and violent death. Portraying vivid realistic death scenes on prime time doesn’t seem to me to be a potential improvement in the social value of public media.
Tris
You are correct, Uniball, about people losing body control when they die. But Hollywood is Hollywood and Gunslinger makes the point.
But you have given me an opportunity to share some police humor with you. I’ve been sitting on this story for 20 years waiting for the opportunity to share it. Police humor is kinda like car salesman humor…You gotta be one of them to get the “joke.”
A cynical vet of 20 years on the force told me one of the tricks he pulled on rookies at an accident scene (yes, with dead people and soiled underwear) is to tell 'em that that stuff is “evidence” and must be collected and turned in like anything else.
The reaction the rookie got back at headquarters kept the old guys rolling in the aisle.