When bad guys in high places...like roofs, balconies, windows, 2nd floor railings, aircraft, skyscrapers, etc....get shot:

They ALWAYS fall the whole way down to the ground (sometimes with a shriek, sometimes not). They NEVER simply collapse on some convenient horizontal surface where they are when hit. No sir! Even if it would require the skill of an Olympic gymnast, the shot cowboy will somehow loft himself over the railing, so he can fall all the way down to the barroom below, hopefully landing on a flimsy table and smashing it, thus breaking his back as well as getting shot.

If the bad guy gets shot and falls off a building, he generally lands (with a sickening crash) on the roof of a car, which has been conveniently left there to receive him.

REALLY, REALLY bad guys usually need to get shot at least 6 to 35 times, in rapid succession, before they finally die. This is so they can suffer enough to satisfy the audience's hatred of them before biting the big one.

Their hundreds of underlings, on the other hand, are easily despatched with a single bullet each, which never wounds, but always, amazingly, hits a fatal spot.

I wonder how the Romans handled this sort of thing in their plays? In a quite similar fashion, I bet.

One more thing: There is NO world problem so big that the good old USA can't handle it by BLOWIN' SOMETHIN' UP REAL GOOD!!! This is true not only in the movies, but even in real life. One difference though...in the movies it's frequently a group of failures, rejects, and nonconformist weirdos (translation: jerks) who accomplish the BLOWIN' 'EM UP REAL GOOD...whereas in real life it's the well trained personnel of the US Air Force who do it.

Real life is boring most of the time, let's face it.

- LH

- LH