What's the deal with film depicting hangings as being via asphyxiation rather than strangulation or ideally breaking the neck? It seems like it's to such an extent that people generally don't know the purpose of a gallows and the suicidal have no concept of how to make a clean exit.
Even the trope of rescuing someone from a hanging by giving them something to barely stand on and/or cutting the rope is generally applied to formal executions and often even on actual gallows.
>>221801377I think maybe the first movie people didn't know this and the movie people who followed only learned about it from the movie people who didn't know and then in 2007 when movies had to be dark and realistic all the people who knew it was really neck breaking got their chance but because it's so gruesome other movie people still stick with asphyxiation. It's also not like it wasn't ever asphyxiation. I think I remember a movie where someone was like "aw hell his neck didn't break" so they shot the hanged out of mercy.
>>221801485Strangulation causes the person to pass out in 10-15 seconds and is what would happen in lynchings and anything else not involving a proper gallows. Films depict the person as kicking for 30+ seconds from being asphyxiated. Lack of blood to the brain vs inability to breath.
Other examples of hangings done right?
>>221801377Well in that specific example he does not have access to a gallows and has to hurriedly hang the guy from some 8 foot high rafters before the posse shoots him, hence the "help me with my fall".Deadwood season 2 has a hanging with instant necksnap death
>>221801637that's obviously a contrasting example
>>221801537idc
>>221801485>the first movie people didn't know this They quite possibly witnessed judicial executions themselves since public hangings happened in the US until the 1930's. Someone dying slowly while kicking and squirming is just usually more dramatic than a quick snap of the neck.
>>221801537Depend on how tight they make the rope and a bit of luck, it may end up putting all the weight on the wind pipe instead of the blood vessel
>>221802019Sometimes if they did their maths wrong the whole head got popped off kek
>>221802081I wonder how much spine would come with it. Or be left visible.
>>221802390apparently it happens at the neck the spinal cord is really weak so whole spines getting ripped out is just movie logic shit
>>221802081>>221802390>>221802494It happened to Saddam Hussein's brother in 2007. There may be footage of it somewhere
>>221801377In relative modern times often people forgot how to execute people (which is why hangmen and executioners were a job) so they would botch the job and the person would either suffer a slow horrific death or just wouldn’t die and have to be let down.
