Hollywood Inacuracies

SPOILERS for Die Hard and Raiders of the Lost Ark ahead.

Over the holidays I watched my favorite Christmas movie: Die Hard. There's a scene in that movie where the limousine driver, Argyle, punches one of the terrorists/robbers once and the guy is knocked unconscious. 

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, during the bar shoot-out scene, Marion hits a Nazi stooge with a big stick on the head and he's knocked unconscious despite wearing thick headgear. 

A lot of times in movies, people are knocked out too easily. And then they get up and are fine (if they are the hero). Knocking someone out requires a lot more violence than movies portray and getting knocked unconscious can do lasting perhaps permanent damage. 

Another Hollywood invention is the one-shot drop. The hero will shoot a bad guy once (sometimes with a small-caliber pistol) and the bad guy will drop dead. This rarely happens unless you get lucky and hit the brain. I once read about a police woman who was off duty and getting out of her car. A bad guy shot her in the heart. She lived long enough to draw her weapon and return fire, killing him. Unfortunately, she died. 

Yes, if you shoot someone in the brain with a sniper rifle, you will kill them with one shot. But if you aren't shooting a sniper rifle, you're odds of dropping someone with one shot are slim.

Can you think of more Hollywood inaccuracies, especially about violence? Let me know in the comments below.