Now Doc Holliday, the wasted badass, dying dude here, knows how to get killed in the gunfight in My Darling Clementine. Or does he?
When a guy dies in a gunfight in real life, there's a bunch of blood where he got shot, he's screaming for his mother for 10 minutes as he dies, and he dies slowly, violently, and agonizingly. Body parts may be blown off, too.
In My Darling Clementine, almost everybody gets killed, Doc Holliday, Wyatt's brother, and the Clantons. When they take a pistol to the face or a shotgun to the back, what do they do? They go "oof", slouch over, and are silent. No screaming, no blood, and all the body parts are completely intact. Honestly. Even Doc Holliday, one of the most important characters, is about to die after being shot and valiantly blows away one of the Clantons. Then, what does he do? He drapes himself over the fence and dies silently. I don't know if it was some sort of censorship going on there or trying to protect the kids. All I do know is that if you show someone dying in a movie, at least do it right.
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I must agree, although the post title should be how to die, not how to get killed, the truth is, when someone dies, they shouldn't be like a stiff rag doll, they should be recoiling in pain before realizing that it hurts to move, the real question here is, why did Chiuaua live to see an operation while everyone else just takes a bullet and decides they've tired of living...?
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