Bullshit
Time
 I
think one way of decreasing the allure of gun ownership
in this country would be to require all movie
and TV programs which involve gunplay have the
victim react as realistically as
possible to a gunshot. (This, of course, does not
include fanciful films like "The Matrix" where
basically anything could happen.)
Firstly, believe it or not, people shot with even
the mighty .357 Magnum aren't blown backwards off
their
feet
and
into
the air from the impact
off the
slug, only to fall in graceful
slow-motion to the ground. The amount of kinetic
energy from the bullet is just too minimal to move
a couple of hundred pounds of meat. Generally,
you just fall straight down from the impact of
a weapon
like that.
Also, contrary to what Hollywood thinks, we're not
blood-filled water balloons. Blood
doesn't
immediately spurt out unless an artery is hit,
and then only
in rhythm
with the person's heartbeat. However, if someone
gets shot there WILL be blood, so none of this
bloodless-gunshot-wound crappola just to get
a PG rating. Capiche?
And unless someone
gets hit in a vital spot, like the brain stem,
the victim is going
to make a lot of noise before they die, not conveniently
expire silently and stoically. Heck, they might even
get
up and run away, or even fight back.
Adrenaline has that
effect.
There's also the fragrant matter of a loss of bladder
and bowel control when someone gets shot, so the
scripts
requiring the hero to don the dead man's clothes
will require an additional level of verisimilitude.
As for getting the bullet out, I've read that it's
not really that big of a deal to leave it in. What's
more
important is to stop
the
bleeding. Impromptu surgery on, say, a leg wound
is only going to complicate the problem of escaping
on foot.
Finally, let's all pledge to to keep an
accurate count of bullets fired. No more of these
silly
ten-minute
gun battles in which no one reloads.
When you think about it, filming
gun battles realistically could add a whole new
level of excitement... unless you're thirteen.
For certain, let's quit portraying guns as magic
wands that trump good writing.
=Lefty=
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