Maybe I am a little slow, but how did his friend and girlfriend die? I know his friend got his back broken; if that is even possible (and Chuck just leaves him there??!!)and his girlfriend is just laying there dead. I mean, what happened to them?
shareHis girlfriend was raped and killed by that big dude, not a very good end for her. I don't know how you can say this one was a win for our hero Chuck because he had a tough time protecting his loved ones.
Don't make me laugh, your kung fu is so so.
Thanks for the reply Krak, but I know she was raped and killed. They made that pretty obvious. My question was HOW the big Chinese guy killed her, just smothered her or broke her neck or something?
This movie was on cable the other night and I looked on internet for "broken back" and if that is fatal. It appeared idea given is that Chuck's friend got his spinal cord (not just back) broken (highley unlikely by method shown) but it can kill as one would have no control over breathing and other functions and one would die slowly
Obviously back when they made this movie 30 years ago, there wasn't a deep amount of thought that went into making each sequence 100% logical and realistic, they just wanted to make the scenes in order to progress the story along to eventually have Chuck Norris get some sort of redeeming revenge by killing the enemies in the end.
As far as that big asian guy raping the girl and killing her, they sort of left that up to interpretation of exactly how she was killed, but it was pretty evident he severely battered her up physically and most likely suffocated or strangled her in the process.
Sorry for the late reply but it is playing on Encore Action right now. A 'broken back' would not effect the breathing if it was below T-12 and between C-6 and T-12 while there would be some effect the person would still be able to breathe on their own. http://www.apparelyzed.com/respiratory.html
However a broken back might release a fat emboli which could prove fatal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_embolism
They haven't got to the scene with the dead buddy yet so did they maybe break his neck that can be instantly fatal?