Top five movie death scenes

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

What's yours? Boromir truly stands out above the rest (breaks my heart everytime I see it ~:mecry: ), and the other 4 are in any order really.

1) Boromir, 'Fellowship of the Ring'
2) William Wallace, 'Braveheart'
3) Katsumoto, 'Last Samurai'
4) Medic Wade, 'Saving Private Ryan'
5) Tom Hanks' character (name eludes me), 'Philadelphia'

[Ronin]

In no particular order:


-The 2 snipers in Black Hawk Down
- William Wallace in Braveheart
-Alonzo in Training Day
-Forrester in Finding Forrester(even if it´s not shown onscreen the part with Jamal reading the letter is touching)
-Lt. Gorman and Pvt. Vasquez in Aliens...trapped in the airshut with no ammo...they pull out a grenade...bang.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Cannot believe i forgot the snipers from BHD! Thanks Ronin for reminding me ~:wave:

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Also Michael Clarke duncan in the green mile, that don't turn off the lights boss at the end breaks the heart man ~:mecry:

[Tachikaze]

No contest: Lady Kaede in Ran

[Papewaio]

The House of Flying Daggers - female leads death er deaths are really painful to watch... like groundhog day for a death scene.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the first movie before the series) - the vampire with one arm who takes ages to die... really funny.

[InsaneApache]

One of the most moving death scenes I like is when 'Chief' smothers Murphy after his pre-frontal lobotamy ...and then rips out the fountain and throws it thru the window to escape from the asylum in One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest...sends a shiver down my spine everytime i c it. (I love that film)

And 'Frenchy' in the Green Mile is particularly gruesome....

[frogbeastegg]

Darth Vader's death; a man who was irredeemably evil slowly dying after saving his son's life, his armour damaged revealing his truly is more machine than human, his helmet gone and behind the feared mask is an old, sick, scarred old man.

[BDC]

In I, Robot (the movie) when the nice robot is about to be deactivated or something, and he goes "Will it hurt?"

[rasoforos]

Nothing can be compared to those opera guys who get stabbed and then sing for half an hour before they die...

[Voigtkampf]

Darth Vader's death; a man who was irredeemably evil slowly dying after saving his son's life, his armour damaged revealing his truly is more machine than human, his helmet gone and behind the feared mask is an old, sick, scarred old man.


One of the best and most powerful scenes, indeed…

My personal favorites?

Roy Batty, Blade Runner

“I’ve seen things you people would never believe… Attack ships on fire at the shoulder of Orion… I’ve seen C-beams glittering through darkness at Tannhauser Gate…

All those moments will be lost in time… Like tears…in rain…”

Marvelous acting!

Also great dying scenes, in no particular order but how I recall them:

- Maximus in “Gladiator”
- Kirk in “The Next Generation”
- Spock in “The Wrath of Khan”
- Schwarzenegger in “Terminator 2”

[scooter_the_shooter]

when the they throw a gernade at the navijo code talker to keep him formming being captured in wind talkers

the snipers in black haw down

tom cruises friend in top gun

maximus in gladiator

julius cesar in ceasar

that guy who is thrown of the roof in the untouchables

the guy who dies at the end of 13 warrior

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Tony Montana in Scarface (Ju gonna need an army to bring me down, eh! I still standin! *bang* *tony falls into pool of water and large splash of blood)
The end of Godfather1 (the death of Tatalliga, the guy in bed, still makes me laugh)
Maximus in Gladiator
Boromir in LoTR1
Theodin in LoTR2

[Steppe Merc]

Number one is Boromir hands down. Then Bubba from Forrest Gump... and Wilson the Volleyball in Castaway (sure it's weird, but I thought it was sad).
Yoda was sad... Erm, I'm no good at this kind of thing, I guess.

[Gregoshi]

In no particular order:

The Enterprise in The Search for Spock
Quint in Jaws
Most of the 54th Massachusetts regiment in the charge on Fort Wagner in Glory
The aunt's death in National Lampoons Vacation :laugh:
The villian in Galaxy Quest (priceless expression of surprise)
Quigon Jin in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

I'll stop there.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

I lauged as the 54th died.

I AM A PROUD DECENDANT OF COL. BLAND And I forgot the mountain men from deliverance, that was funny as heck!
Edit: Wrong Regiment and Rank, and the b was a typo

[Fragony]

Marlon Brando in 'The Godfather'
Donald Sutherland in 'Don't look now' creepy!
Don't laugh, Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge
Don't laugh, el Padre lion from the Lion King (I know I am a wuss)
E.T. ~:mecry: ~:mecry:


as you can see I am pretty easily emotionaly manipulated ~;)

[cutepuppy]

you all forgot about the death of bambi's mother!!!!!
~:mecry: ~:mecry: ~:mecry: ~:mecry:

[Red Peasant]

1. Bubba in Forrest Gump
2. Paul the German soldier at end of All Quiet on the Western Front
3. Boromir in LOTR
4. Jon Voigt or Wallace Beery in either movie of 'The Champ'
5. Brandon Lee in The Crow (a tragic real death).


Someone mentioned Bambi, so what about scene where the cute little deer is stomped in 'Bambi vs Godzilla'. Hilarious.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Also i remember being sad when James cagney noble death in angels with dirty faces(when he puts on the crying for the sake of the kids) and Captain courageous with Spencer Tracy dying with the lad crying. Ah Jaysus! Thats a sad film man!

I hate seeing old sean connery getting killed in the untouchables as well

[Dead Moroz]

For me "number one" is the death of Jean-Paul Belmondo in "The Professional". To the sound of that famous music of Morricone.

And of course all scenes of the Crucifixion in all movies about Jesus. ~;)

[Goofball]

The scene toward the end of Last of the Mohicans where the British officer, Duncan Heyward (played by Steven Waddington), has a moment of nobility and sacrifices himself to save Hawkeye (played by Daniel Day-Lewis) and Cora (played by Madeleine Stowe), knowing full well the Indians plan to burn him at the stake. As Cora and Hawkeye are fleeing, Hawkeye turns and fires a mercifully well placed musket ball into Duncan's heart, killing him to spare him the pain of the flames that are just beginning to lick around his head. Combined with the stunningly simple yet incredibly emotive music playing during the scene, it never fails to give me chills and draw a tear or two whenever I see it...

[son of spam]

The scene toward the end of Last of the Mohicans where the British officer, Duncan Heyward (played by Steven Waddington), has a moment of nobility and sacrifices himself to save Hawkeye (played by Daniel Day-Lewis) and Cora (played by Madeleine Stowe), knowing full well the Indians plan to burn him at the stake. As Cora and Hawkeye are fleeing, Hawkeye turns and fires a mercifully well placed musket ball into Duncan's heart, killing him to spare him the pain of the flames that are just beginning to lick around his head. Combined with the stunningly simple yet incredibly emotive music playing during the scene, it never fails to give me chills and draw a tear or two whenever I see it...

OT: I've never seen the movie, but I remember in the book all the main characters survive except for the mohicans (duh) and Cora (incidentally a pretty sad death scene). Why'd they change it in the movie?

[Ironside]

That old man in Shawshank Redemption that hangs himself. It's so sad ~:mecry: ~:mecry: ~:mecry:

[Kaiser of Arabia]

And I will never forget the death of the 1st mountain man in Deliverance. You know, the one who said, "Squeal like a Pig!" Always brings up a chuckle.

Another good one was Jackson in Gods and Generals. I really feal bad for that poor guy. Being shot by his own men. Must have been really painful, emotionally and physically.

And another classic is Joe Pesci's character Nicky in Casino. Got beat to death with baseball bats by the guy who played characters in several scorsese films which pesci beat the crap out of (Billy Batts in Goodfellas, that dude in Raging Bull)

Another emotional one is Crockett at the end of the new Alamo film.

And the kids in the Patriot. Makes me laugh though I felt sad when the British Dragoon dude died (yea I am usually the type of person who cheers for the bad guys)

I have more, later

[Tachikaze]

Old Live Skins (Chief Dan George) in Little Big Man

Brian in Monty Python's Life of Brian

[Red Peasant]

A couple more that come to mind:

The guy who is flicked out of his crashing chariot in the race scene from Ben Hur

King Kong in the original movie.

[monkian]

No contest: Lady Kaede in Ran

Yup ~;)

Also Tony Montana's in Scarface- he takes some killing

Ripley in Alien 3

Dillon in Alien 3 - Is that all you got huh ? - fighting the Alien

Kane in Alien

( I like the Alien series ~;) )

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Totally agree with officer heywood, and when uncas gets his throat slit by magua with is adopted brother and father watching.

I love that fight at the end, bloody brill!

[JAG]

That old man in Shawshank Redemption that hangs himself. It's so sad ~:mecry: ~:mecry: ~:mecry:

Yep, I would agree. His name was Brooks no? Anyway that is a sad one.

However it is so hard to choose, as there are so many of them.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

I find the ending of the mission really sad as well, the way the indians and jeremy irons gets gun downed.

Also when the scene in Crimson tide when the hatch has to be closed on the marines trying to get out and when ed harris has to watch his wife drowning in the Abyss. God that is sad man, and least she gets revived though

[scooter_the_shooter]

this aint a movie but a book


when xeones dies in gate of fire
when alexandros dies in gates of fire

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Thats about themopayle isn't it? Read it and it is sad, if you like that get Gates of Rome, both books are great and when a certain guy dies in it i was sad. Won't tell you who though in case of spoiling it for people but both books are a tremedous read

[gaelic cowboy]

No 5

The RIC man from Kerry in rebel heart a mini series produced by the BBC an RTE the actual programme was utter crap believe ya don't want to see it. But the pathetic nature of the policemans death is too much he just lies there saying "OH DEARY ME OH DEAR" slowly bleeding to death.

No 4

The sucide dash with bayonets in Gallipoli ye know already it's going to happen yet it still catches you by surprise.

No 3

Hal in 2001 space oddessy

No 2

Shane's death ride in Shane obviously

No 1

James Cagney in White Heat hands down no arguements allright "Look at me ma i'm on top of the world" :bomb: BOOM classic