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I just watched a movie, Field of Lost Shoes, about VMI cadets at the battle of New Market in 1864.  It was supposed to be a tear jerker, but it seemed like a low budget film.  I recognized Keith David, who played a slave, from other movies but other than that it was unknown actors.  The movie was based on real events.

 

Anyway, there was a scene in which one of the main characters was wounded during a bayonet charge, and one of the other main characters held him in his arms as he bled to death on the battlefield.  The dying character made a gasping, iconic last-words moment which really characterizes Hollywood depictions of war. 

 

Funny, I've seen hundreds of people die, and I've never seen anyone gasp any iconic last words.  They die screaming, in pain, confused, and terrified.  Sometimes they scream for their mothers.  Other times they say nonsense because their brain isn't functioning correctly.  Others scream incomprehensibly. 

 

It never looks like Hollywood.

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Hollywood doesn't really know as much as they think they do...

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