Don't forget "a discharged crossbow's string stays taut" . I love your Hollywood analogy though. I wonder if historians take that factor into account enough... (or should that be "take that factor enough into account ?". Or even "Take into account that factor enough", maybe ? This is a real question.)

I do wonder what those mailed legs hanging in the air are supposed to represent. "And Sir Ulstain was uppercut'd so hard he flewedth to t'moon" ?