Never seen any dead people huh?
You don't have to stand tall, but you do have to stand up!

Dramatic maybe, but not very realistic.
People don't die with their eyes frozen looking upwards.

Agreed. Long, slow, agonizing.

Yes I've always thought that scene was really realistic. So many old western movies show people getting shot and killed with arrows by Native Americans, and the arrow-shot people just immediately fall over dead just like they were shot in the head with a bullet. In reality death would not be instantaneous like that, they would be awake for awhile and die slowly. That's what makes that scene from
Deliverance
so good, they made it more realistic.
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