article_snippet.sent: the experts include John McClane – played by Bruce Willis – in Die Hard, the serial killer in Halloween and, perhaps more surprisingly, three of the cast of family comedy Home Alone.
article_snippet.sent: John McClane, Bruce Willis's maverick New York cop in the Die Hard series, should by rights have done exactly that – die.
article_snippet.sent: In real life, Bruce Willis's John McClane would never have survived long enough to smash through a plate glass window in the first Die Hard movie .
article_snippet.sent: A posse of baddies have rounded up a group of hostages, including Bruce Willis' John McClane's wife, in a Los Angeles skyscraper.
article_snippet.sent: In Bruce Willis' John McClane bid to rescue them, Bruce Willis' John McClane starts out as a bit of a softie.
article_snippet.sent: Bruce Willis' John McClane's 35 minutes into the film, when the poor lamb hits Bruce Willis' John McClane head against a plaster wall and tumbles down some stairs. '
article_snippet.sent: The plasterboard is likely to have caused some bruising but, because Bruce Willis' John McClane landed on top of another guy, Bruce Willis' John McClane may have sprained something,' says Dr Ram Moorthy, a head and neck surgeon.
article_snippet.sent: Thirteen minutes later, Bruce Willis' John McClane nearly falls to Bruce Willis' John McClane death down a lift shaft, only to be saved by clinging on to a ledge with Bruce Willis' John McClane fingertips... an unlikely prospect in someone who isn't a trained climber, says Dr Moorthy.
article_snippet.sent: It's highly possible Bruce Willis' John McClane could have broken Bruce Willis' John McClane fingers and dislocated Bruce Willis' John McClane shoulder.
article_snippet.sent: Bruce Willis' John McClane lives to fight on.
article_snippet.sent: An hour and 13 minutes in, Bruce Willis' John McClane blows up a lift shaft.
article_snippet.sent: Bruce Willis' John McClane could just about have survived – and again, two minutes later, when Bruce Willis' John McClane gashes Bruce Willis' John McClane feet on glass fragments, if the blood loss wasn't too bad.
article_snippet.sent: Bruce Willis' John McClane might even have got over being kicked in the head many times two minutes later, although Bruce Willis' John McClane would have suffered jaw and cheekbone fractures.
article_snippet.sent: What Bruce Willis' John McClane couldn't have survived, says Dr Moorthy, is being shot in his shoulder. '
article_snippet.sent: Still, Bruce Willis' John McClane miraculously makes it, and indeed goes on to leap off the exploding building, smashing through a plate glass window, with no permanent injury – as the next four films in the Die Hard franchise went on to prove.