Best Deaths in Movie history *will contain spoilers obviously* [Archive]

Ronin

07-16-2007, 16:44

In movie history we have been witness to some great death scenes......some have made us cry....some have made us laugh when a particularly dastardly villain met his end....and sometimes even the hero met his end in a death moment that defined badassery!!!

what I want is for everybody to say what is their favourite death in film, give details, movie, character and of course why it is your favorite :book:

My pick:

The Movie - Dog Soldiers Dog Soldiers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280609/)

The character - Pvt. 'Spoon' Witherspoon

Why this death - This movie is an English horror flick about a squad of English soldiers out on a training mission....little do they know that the Scottish woods that they are being sent into are actually the home of a pack of Werewolfs....what follows is one of my favorite horror movies of all times....as the squadies that would rather just had stayed home and watched the soccer match fight to survive the night inside an old isolated house....
Things soon go from bad to worse as the werewolfs manage to enter the house....our man spoon is caught in the kitchen with a werewolf...looking death in the face spoon decides he ain´t going down without a fight :2thumbsup: and using knifes, pots, and his own hands and feet procedes to fight the werewolf mano-a-mano :yes: .....but all to no avail....as second werewolf enters the room just as the first one revives....:skull: ... grabbed by the throat and pinned against a wall our man has time to give the furries one last piece of his mind: "I hope I give you the *****, you ******* wimp" :laugh4: he then gets devoured (off-screen)

That´s it spoon! when you have nothing left.....give them attitude!!! :2thumbsup: :laugh4:

Whacker

07-16-2007, 20:01

This is how I'd like to die. (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Arvel_Crynyd)

Hands down. If you're gonna go, why not take a 19km long super star destroyer (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Executor) with you, and a good chunk of a man-made planetoid (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Star_II) for good measure?

:balloon2:

Conradus

07-16-2007, 20:11

'V's death in "V for Vendetta"

After killing 12 men who emptied their entire clips on him, he kills them all with his knives before they reload. (Just as he said he would)
Then he dies and Evey (Natalie Portman) puts him on the metro he build to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London. And so goes V, with fireworks in the sky and on the ground. Truly a spectacular moment.

This isn't my preferred death, but the one I remember most fondly now.

Samurai Waki

07-16-2007, 20:22

Sir Bors, Monty Python and the Holy Grail;

Sir Bors: Right! Silly little bleeder. One rabbit stew comin' right up! ...

Bijo

07-16-2007, 20:28

Gladiator: when he dies at the end.

The Untouchables: when the cop dies in his house.

GeneralHankerchief

07-16-2007, 20:41

When Gen. Armistead bites it in Gettysburg.

Togakure

07-16-2007, 21:33

Miryea Mendez' death in Revenge (1990). Anthony Quinn plays her jealous, powerful, and corrupt husband Tibby, and Costner plays Tibby's friend. He falls in love with Tibby's wife, crosses the forbidden line, and gets caught.

I think it's the music that makes this scene so powerful for me (Maurice Jarre did the soundtrack). That, and she reminds me of a cherished "ex," with whom I've lost contact and wonder if she's still alive.

Privateerkev

07-16-2007, 22:47

Evil_Maniac From Mars

07-17-2007, 01:01

The death of Maximus in Gladiator. ~:mecry:

Bijo

07-17-2007, 01:25

By far my favorite death is when the soldier in "Saving Private Ryan" explodes from his own sticky bomb. It is still very amusing to watch the reactions of people who have never seen that scene before. It might not be as "epic" or "heroic" as some of the other choices on here. But, I would argue that, that scene has emotionally reached many people due to its abrubt and raw power.
A far better death scene would be with the Captain in this movie. His death was glorious, heroic, etc. The Sergeant before him was also a good death scene, but not as dramatic as the Captain's.

Big King Sanctaphrax

07-17-2007, 01:58

-Sergeant Elias in Platoon. The scene where he throws up his arms in slow motion as Adaggio for Strings plays is a classic.

-Mr Big's death in Live and Let Die. He gets literally blown up by Bond using a compressed gas pellet gun.

-The eponymous Leon in Leon/The Professional. Utterly tragic, yet Gary Newman's wonderfully slimy portrayal makes it deliciously satisfying to see his character get his just deserts.

-The Terminator in Terminator 2. Who'd have thought Arnie being lowered into a vat of liquid metal would be such a tear-jerker?

-Apollo Creed in Rocky IV. This one's got both ridiculous slow-motion and sinister Russians.

Martok

07-17-2007, 02:38

I believe I already stated so in one of the other movie threads here in the Frontroom, but I'll say it again: Spock's death in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. It *still* chokes me up, even though I've literally seen the movie at least 100 times. :embarassed:

Saving Private Ryan has another death scene that really affected me, but I've not seen it mentioned here yet: When the medic is shot and dies after assaulting the radar station. When he starts crying for his mom in his death throes, I always want to bawl and vomit simultaneously. A very well done, very affecting scene IMO.

Gawain of Orkeny

07-17-2007, 03:50

No this is the best ever Death in Movie History

Batman89 - Batman and Joker Final Showdown (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8735499187717733176&q=batman+jack+nicholson+joker&total=76&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=9)

Lemur

07-17-2007, 04:00

I want to be like the screaming coward (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eijUlCEAyAw) at the end of Yojimbo. A high-pitched terror whine will be just fine for me.

Gregoshi

07-17-2007, 04:01

:404: Nevermind.

Big King Sanctaphrax

07-17-2007, 04:04

Ooh, how about Obi Wan Kenobi's death. Raising the saber, the sly smile to Luke-that's some powerful stuff.

Crazed Rabbit

07-17-2007, 04:06

I must have missed something...

CR

Decker

07-17-2007, 06:55

In Band of Brothers (I forgot the name of the episodes) the episodes where they are getting hammered above the town of Foy and the one before that where it follows the medic around during Bastogne. Some of the guys that you have followed since Curahee, either get killed or horrible maimed including new guys and a hospital full of wounded and civilian volunteers. I've never been in real combat let alone a war, but I have read enough about it to know that war is probably the closest thing to hell on earth and these two episodes certainly brought that home and induced a slight panic attack(to see that these things actually happen to people) when I first saw these episodes one after the other.

Kralizec

07-17-2007, 13:15

(Deleted hotlink pic - Beirut)

HoreTore

07-17-2007, 14:46

"WHAT is your favourite colour?"

"Red! ...no, blue! Aaaaaahhh!"

Best one ever.

GiantMonkeyMan

07-17-2007, 19:23

"WHAT is your favourite colour?"

"Red! ...no, blue! Aaaaaahhh!"

Best one ever.

monty python... a classic :laugh4:

'Spoon' from dog soldiers has a class death it's funny and heroic at the same time but my favourite movie death has to be in Deep Blue Sea when samuel l jackson is going on about how they need to work together to escape the 'evil' sharks and, just as his speech ends, a huge shark burst through the glass behind him and wipes him out... crap film but that made it worth while

drone

07-17-2007, 19:47

"Oh man, I shot Marvin in the face."

Totally senseless, funny, and unexpected. Great plot vehicle.

econ21

07-17-2007, 19:56

I am sure there are better ones, but the death of Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) in Blade Runner is memorable:

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die."

seireikhaan

07-17-2007, 20:02

Hmm, Titanic. No, not Leonardo DeCrappio's death(obviously). When the ship is going down, and has nearly tipped vertical, one guy falls from the top of the ship. As he falls down, BOINK, he smashes into the propeller of the ship. Nah, I'm kidding.

Anyway, I dunno why exactly, but I really like Jet Li's death in Fearless. I guess because he held back against Tanaka, kinda cementing his 'transformation' from his earlier days.

Odin

07-17-2007, 20:02

1. I dont know the chainsaw in the shower scene of scarface comes to mind.

2.The bum on the street in clock work orange before alex's re education, when they kicked the crap out of him, i cant remember if he died but the scene immediately popped into my head as a "best death"

3. Lucy lu's charecter dieing, after a lengthy bloody battle with uma thurman in Kill Bill Vol 1.

4. Lee van cleef in the good the bad and the ugly. Not his death, but in the first part of the movie he kills a man who tells him about the cash box (and his son) and then takes his gold and explains to his employer (as he is sickly in bed) that he assumed that the man wanted him to kill the employer in retribution. Some laughter ensues on thier part and then Angel eyes pulls the pillow over the employers head and puts a bullet into it. (personal favorite because its not just one death, but a few killings intertwined).

5.Robert Shaw as "quint" in Jaws. he proclaims he will never put on a life jacket again after his boat went down in WWII after delivering the hiroshima bomb. The fishing boat he is on is damaged, the shark is circiling and he is looking at the chief (Roy schnieder). Now everytime the shark is in the water, you hear the infamous music, execept this time, no music just the sudden propelling of the shark on the boat, quint slips and tries to kick away from the shark. No luck he's crushed in its mouth.

those are 5 that came to mind when looking at this thread.

Axeknight

07-17-2007, 20:57

The Movie - Dog Soldiers

The character - Pvt. 'Spoon' Witherspoon
I love that film. It's great because the squaddies make all the right decisions (unlike most horror films, they never do stupid stuff like separating, turning lights off etc), they really give the werewolves a fight (the bit with the Land Rover and the shed being a prime example), but by the end you can see they really never had a chance. Spoon's last act of defiance was brilliant, but my favourite bit is the last shot of the next day's newspaper.

I am sure there are better ones, but the death of Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) in Blade Runner is memorable:

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die."
He wrote that speech himself, you know. Very poignant, especially since he's been portrayed as pretty much the bad guy right through.

A few more favourites [SPOILERS: have put the titles in bold in case anyone doesn't want them spoiled] -

Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) in Apocalypse Now - it's a cliche, but it's still pretty powerful, with Martin Sheen rising out of the swamp with a look in his eyes like he's possessed by a demon.

Daniel Craig in Layer Cake - just when it's over, just as he's finally won, he's killed by a nobody character he stole Sienna Miller from about 20 minutes in.

Sonny Corleone (James Caan) in The Godfather - for how the guard at the tollbooth drops to the floor and he suddenly realises he's been set up, and for the (quite literal) overkill of the assassins. And the way one kicks him afterwards, just to make sure.

Tony Montana (Al Pacino) in Scarface - another cliche, but nobody's mentioned it yet. The zoom out shot of the fountain is great (Al Pacino had to hold his breath for a ridiculous amount of time for that one).

Evil_Maniac From Mars

07-17-2007, 21:07

Bijo

07-17-2007, 21:48

-Sergeant Elias in Platoon. The scene where he throws up his arms in slow motion as Adaggio for Strings plays is a classic.

That was a good death scene. I saw this movie the first time at a fairly young age and recall it was a very (emotionally) powerful play.

Soulforged

07-17-2007, 22:56

I'll have to say the death of that anonymous fellow on the backseat during one of the scenes on Pulp Fiction for that great laughing death scene, it's unspected, shocking and terrible, but for the quality of the storytelling and the dialogue you just can't avoid the Quentin effect, I almost spill all my beverage on myself the first time I saw that.:laugh4:

For those greatly shocking death scenes I'll have to say the death of captain Rhodes on the underground of the safe facility while trying to escape the slaughter on Day of the Dead by Romero (correcting myself in another thread). Never has a death looked so real and nauseating on screen to the point in which you had to enjoy it or hate it, thanks to Tom Savini, at least in my opinion.~:shock:

And finally for those great dramatic death scenes I'll have to choose, and it's a hard choice, the death of Coffey on The Green Mile by Frank Darabont based on a book by Stephen King. The character is great for suffering one of those deaths that can bring you to tears, the tragedy is elevated to monumental levels during his death. But images say more than words go see it for yourself.~:mecry:

I am sure there are better ones, but the death of Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) in Blade Runner is memorable:

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die."Oh yes that's one great scene. I think it could be the great philosophic death scene of all time, the movie tries to hard to bring some philosophic background in what could have been otherwise one of the best storytelling of all time, but only for a moment under the rain it achieves what it looks for, it's brief but powerful.

Togakure

07-18-2007, 00:20

... Spock's death in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. It *still* chokes me up, even though I've literally seen the movie at least 100 times. :embarassed:
...
How on earth could I have allowed this one to slip my mind in this thread. By far, this movie death has had the biggest impact on my character. The first time I saw it, I didn't choke up. I cried. I tear up whenever I watch it when I'm alone or in good company. I'm not embarrassed at all to say this.

I'd been watching Star Trek avidly from the time I was about age 6. It was easy to get me to behave as a kid--threaten to take away my Star Trek privileges for that evening. The depth and nature of friendships between Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scottie became subconscious symbols of what True friendship is. When Spock died in the film, I felt like I'd lost a crucial role model. Being hapa, I related closely to many of Spock's struggles as a halfbreed. He is one of my life's great heros.

Kirk: Spock.
Spock: Ship... out of danger?
Kirk: Yes.
Spock: Don't grieve, Admiral. It is logical. The needs of the many outweigh...
Kirk: ...the needs of the few.
Spock: ...Or the one. I never took the Kobayashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?
Kirk: Spock...
Spock: I have been and always shall be your friend.
[Holds up his hand in the Vulcan salute]
Spock: Live long and prosper.

Kirk: We are gathered here today to pay final respects to our honored dead. But it should be noted that this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world; a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one, and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human.

McCoy: He's not really dead. As long as we remember him.
Kirk: It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before. A far better resting place that I go to than I have ever known.
Carol Marcus: Is that a poem?
Kirk: No. Something Spock was trying to tell me. On my birthday.
McCoy: You okay, Jim? How do you feel?
Kirk: Young. I feel young.

Gawain of Orkeny

07-18-2007, 06:15

"On this, Brian, the occasion of your martyrdom, we would like to extend to you our most sincere thanks for what you have done for us and our organization, and can only offer our condolences on what must be, after all, a very difficult time."

But remember

Always look on the bright side of life. (https://youtube.com/watch?v=1loyjm4SOa0)

:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

I love the mother at the start.

Decker

07-18-2007, 07:09

Fragony

07-18-2007, 09:42

The scene during saving private ryan where that one guy gets stabbed by the German while Ukem(or however you say his name) just stands on the stairs listening and doesn't help let alone shoot the sob while he comes down the stairs. One of the most frustrating parts I have ever seen in a movie.

What makes it extra creepy is the german soldier comforting him. Spielberg sure knows how to make violence seem real. Same with Munich.

Best dead, Augustus in I-Claudius.

Subedei

07-18-2007, 13:00

Kralizec

07-18-2007, 14:46

The bum on the street in clock work orange before alex's re education, when they kicked the crap out of him, i cant remember if he died but the scene immediately popped into my head as a "best death"

He didn't die:

After his reeducation he encounters the bum again, who recognises him and proceeds to kick and beat him with his homeless friends while he's defenseless

1. Major Kongs death in Dr. Strangelove
2. Keanu Reaves suicide (forgot his characters name) in the Devils Advocate
3. Nick's death by Russian Roullette in The Deer Hunter
4. Cole's death in Twelve Monkeys, sad and beautiful

Odin

07-18-2007, 15:02

He didn't die:

After his reeducation he encounters the bum again, who recognises him and proceeds to kick and beat him with his homeless friends while he's defenseless

thats to bad, because it would have been a great death. I think i will rent that movie again its been near 15 years since I saw it last. Just need a bit of the moloco plus to set the mood, but as i reflect no one dies in the movie do they?

Kralizec

07-18-2007, 15:05

thats to bad, because it would have been a great death. I think i will rent that movie again its been near 15 years since I saw it last. Just need a bit of the moloco plus to set the mood, but as i reflect no one dies in the movie do they?

That's funny, I bought the DVD about 3 weeks ago.

Very minor spoiler:
Two people die, but they're not directly shown.

The Spartan (Returns)

07-18-2007, 18:50

Braveheart: William Wallace
Gladiator: Maximus
Saving Private Ryan:Tom Hank's character (the Cpt.)

Ice

07-18-2007, 20:22

John Coffee's Excution-Green Mile (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUR8klICwRA)- By the way he didn't do it.

Enemy at the Gates where the Major shoots the main character's best friend, but is shot in return my the young sniper

Braveheart- When William Wallace is killed at the end

Snite

07-19-2007, 05:24

My favorite movie death is Captain Barbossa in Curse of the Black Pearl. From the moment he gave Elizabeth his speech about feeling nothing I knew he was the tragic hero of the movie for lack of a better term. His death was so passionate: "I feel!" His excitement at being able to feel again after such a long and arduous journey is so great he forgets for just a moment that nothing he feels is positive. And then the realizatin hits him: he's accomplished his great goal only long enough to see it taken from him. "... cold." and he falls to the ground, the green apple he had squirreled away, waiting to be his first celebration at being human again, tumbles from his coat sleave, sealing the downfall of his dreams.

For a popcorn movie, that was an incredible death in my opinion.

Snite

Decker

07-19-2007, 07:48

What makes it extra creepy is the german soldier comforting him. Spielberg sure knows how to make violence seem real. Same with Munich.

Yea that seen really irks me when I see it.
I know this isn't a death scene but the recent "War of the Worlds" where Tom's character goes outside of a house near the end and you see the walkers spraying, what seems to be blood everywhere, was creepy and very eerie.

The Spartan (Returns)

07-19-2007, 14:58

What makes it extra creepy is the german soldier comforting him. Spielberg sure knows how to make violence seem real. Same with Munich.It is so ironic that Upham tried to save the German soldier, and thought he would just turn into American forces, but thrown back in circulation.

So the same German soldier kills two of Upham's comrades, and in the end Upham kills the German soldier.

Was it worth letting that German go?

Bijo

07-19-2007, 16:03

Upham was righteous in conduct, but foolish simultaneously when he recommended the release of the German soldier. Allowing the enemy to live will undeniably result in enemy effort being reinforced. Even if unjust, the man was to perish at their hands when they caught him for that simple reason. That or Miller shouldn't have engaged them in the first place.

There was however no telling what the future would bring precisely. Even if so, they should've been aware of the soldier being recirculated which is an overall reason to consider his murder.

And Spielberg indeed did a good job at it. One of my favourite war movies.

Lorenzo_H

07-19-2007, 16:43

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly by Sergio Leone...

Angel Eyes death on the soldier´s graveyard...the duell beforehand is splendid and Angel eyes falls straight into a freshly digged grave....Gotta watch that movie again.....
Too right. I recently saw that.

Any one of the Persians in 300. Don't ever even suggest that, in Hollywood battles at least, numbers help win wars.

The guy in "We Were Soldiers" who gets hit by friendly napalm. I cringed.

The 8 Mayan soldiers who follow Jaguar Paw (Apocalypto) all die in some pretty unfortunate ways.

The Serbian assassin in "Behind Enemy Lines" is shot about 10 times and then stabbed with a flare to put him out of action.

Oh there are soo many more I just can't remember them right now...I'll have to edit when I remember.

Incongruous

07-19-2007, 18:27

Pretty much ebery death in this scene is beutiful.

The quality isn't great, but you can still feel it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkEIvCyUyGE&mode=related&search=

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEpEPzJmZm8&mode=related&search=

Longer but better.

seireikhaan

07-19-2007, 20:14

Hmm, just thought of another one. Gollem's death in LOTR: The Return of the King. He finally got the ring back...

The Spartan (Returns)

07-19-2007, 20:30

DEATH OF BOROMIR!!!

OMG, I forgot about LOTR. Boromir is my favorite character, really like the actor too.

ShadesPanther

07-19-2007, 21:34

DEATH OF BOROMIR!!!

OMG, I forgot about LOTR. Boromir is my favorite character, really like the actor too.

And if you see the Extended Edition he seems far more of a tragic hero.

I agree about the two men the German Soldier killed in Saving Private Ryan.
He shot the Corporal (who is Mack in The Unit ~:)) and then stabbed the other.

Basically the Deaths to do with jhim in the village are all great movie deaths

El Diablo

07-20-2007, 01:27

Commando

"You don't need the gun John"
"Just like old times John"

Big steel tube through the guts..

"Let off some steam ... Bennitt"

Arnie you are a legend.

Although one thing I find funny is watching a gory "splatter horror" flick with the misses and during the movie several people have been decapitated - others have had limbs severed - others tortured, but as soon as the zombies get to the cute dog she decides the movie is just plain sick.

Moros

07-20-2007, 20:55

1) The Black Knight, Holy grail. Well not sure if he died but still.
2) The guy who get's the Trojan Bunny on his head, same movie
3) The victims of the killer bunny, again same movie.
4) well...

Well instead of making a list of al the deaths in that movie, I'll just say that moie has the greates deaths. If it was me I'd be quite pleased with that kind of absurd death.

Ianofsmeg16

07-20-2007, 21:52

Leonidas in '300'..for the heroic death award of course

Kenny, south Park, countless hours of crude entertainment watching a 10 year old boy die in humerous ways..

Don Corleone

07-20-2007, 22:37

Denzel Washington in "Fallen". Don't open unless you want to blow a really cool ending to a very well done film.

Denzel is a detective who has come to realize a serial killer that he arrested and has helped to have executed is possessed by a demon named Zazel. The demon can possess anyone he touches, so you can never technically kill it, it just keeps jumping from person to person. If he can't reach somebody he can 'go to the air' for a brief period to hop into a nearby body. Except you can kill him. Denzel finally realizes that without making physical contact, the demon can only jump for a limited distance. So he goes way, way way out in the woods, then calls the two detectives in his squad that are looking for him (Zazel has framed Denzel for a bunch of murders). Well, after Zazel (who's possessed Denzel's partner, John Goodman) shoots their lieutenant (Donald Sutherland), he gleefully explains that there's no way out. If Denzel shoots John Goodman, he'll just jump into his (Denzel's) body. Otherwise, Zazel will stay in John Goodmans body and just kill Denzel. So, Denzel starts smoking a cigaratte and asks to think about it. "Sure, sure", Zazel gleefully encourages him. Then Denzel shoots John Goodman. Zazel happily hops over to Denzel, only to discover the cigarette Denzel was smoking.... was laced with strychnine. ~:doh: Zazel almost dies. The screen actually starts darkening... and then you here the intro to the song "Sympathy for the Devil" playing, and a stray cat comes strutting out of the basement. The movie ends with Zazel, in Denzel's voice, admonishing the audience "See you around". It's very chilling, but very well done.

Peasant Phill

07-21-2007, 10:15

Kadagar_AV

07-21-2007, 12:38

bambi's mother... nuff said...

Fragony

07-21-2007, 12:54

bambi's mother... nuff said...

Owww god that wrecked me back then. Death of dad in the lionking still gets me. I have an unhealthy obsesion with cats and can't even think of them getting hurt even if it is just a movie. When little Simba tries to lay next to him, slowly moving dad's paw up........

GOD

My mother really wanted a girl, I must be the compromise.

Peasant Phill

07-21-2007, 13:21

Bambi's mother, Simba's dad, Babar's mother, ... I wander how I didn't get traumatised in my childhood. Fragony, I think a lot of us got emotional when we look at them, even now.

But on the bright side I never saw a better drunk or drugged scene like the one in Dumbo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Elephants_On_Parade

Kadagar_AV

07-21-2007, 14:02

Pink elephants on parade (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aObK1k4-yOk&mode=related&search=)

OH MY GOD!! How much drugs did they take while making that one?

And anyone who has been trippin can attest to it being about drugs, not alcohol;)

Crazed Rabbit

07-21-2007, 17:26

Cyrano de Bergerac, original movie version.

CR

Lorenzo_H

07-21-2007, 17:51

DEATH OF BOROMIR!!!

OMG, I forgot about LOTR. Boromir is my favorite character, really like the actor too.
Sean Bean has quite a few good deaths in numerous films. He usually plays a bad guy, and in Hollywood they are more expendable than pennies in the actor's purses.

EDIT: I've thought of another one. In Rambo III, there is a Russian sergeant who Rambo kills be pulling the pin out of a grenade attached to his chest, and then throwing him off a crevice with a rope around his neck, so he experiences being hung and exploded sequentially.

Orb

07-23-2007, 22:03

The end of The English Patient is probably the one that moves me most.

econ21

07-24-2007, 00:54

It is so ironic that Upham tried to save the German soldier, and thought he would just turn into American forces, but thrown back in circulation.

So the same German soldier kills two of Upham's comrades, and in the end Upham kills the German soldier.

Was it worth letting that German go?

The German soldier with the knife is not the one Upham had let go and later kills. It's hard to tell them apart, as they are rather similar types but they are different actors and characters.

The Spartan (Returns)

07-24-2007, 07:23

Really? Then why does the German know Upham's name? Before he was shot he says, "Upham..."

Fragony

07-24-2007, 10:00

Ok, someone had to mention Big Fish. That someone just happens to be me. Now that was a moving death-scene.

econ21

07-24-2007, 10:44

Really? Then why does the German know Upham's name? Before he was shot he says, "Upham..."

Upham lets one German go. That German is the same one who he shoots at the end (and so that one says his name). He is portrayed as kind of shifty and dishonorable in the film.

The German with the knife kills the Jewish soldier but is not the same one who Upham shoots in the final battle. I don't think we see the knife wielder before or after he kills the Jewish soldier. Although what he does is disturbing, he is portrayed as rather decent in the film - his words to the Jewish soldier show humanity.

Banquo's Ghost

07-24-2007, 11:39

Upham lets one German go. That German is the same one who he shoots at the end (and so that one says his name). He is portrayed as kind of shifty and dishonorable in the film.

The German with the knife kills the Jewish soldier but is not the same one who Upham shoots in the final battle. I don't think we see the knife wielder before or after he kills the Jewish soldier. Although what he does is disturbing, he is portrayed as rather decent in the film - his words to the Jewish soldier show humanity.

Fascinatingly, you are right (http://www.sproe.com/s/steamboat-comparison.html). :bow:

The "mistake" actually holds more narrative sense, so I am rather disappointed that Spielberg allowed such a confusion to be so easily made. Unless of course, he is making a very subtle point about the confusion of war and the dangers inherent in assuming that the enemy "all look the same".

An interesting extra layer to ponder on. Thanks econ, for the information. :book2:

Spino

07-24-2007, 16:31

What makes it extra creepy is the german soldier comforting him. Spielberg sure knows how to make violence seem real. Same with Munich.

Best dead, Augustus in I-Claudius.

"By the way, don't touch the figs." lol!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9cKGYhuQKQ

Spino

07-24-2007, 17:08

Crikey... forgot to post some of my favs...

Tony Montana's bloody end from "Scarface". Perhaps the greatest last stand in movie history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9RRE1OrFDI

The demise of Ryunosuke from the final scene of "Sword of Doom" (aka "Daibatsu Pass" in Japan), one of the greatest samurai flicks of all time. Tatsuya Nakadai plays Ryunosuke, a homicidal, sociopathic samurai whose soul has been thoroughly corrupted by evil. If Scarface has the greatest last stand ever Sword of Doom finishes a strong second. The best part is you never actually see Ryunosuke die but you know his demise is inevitable...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDJYCtmbK68

The entire final scene from "The Wild Bunch", Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece. William Holden, Ernest Borginine and Warren Oates go down in a bloody, slow motion blaze of glory. The Old West meets a Maxim machine gun...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OLvEJ3kP1s

Banquo's Ghost

07-24-2007, 19:56

One of my emotional favourites is Arthur's death in Boorman's "Excalibur".

Götterdämmerung soaring grandly over the blood-red landscapes as the final act of the legend is played out just touches me.

Lorenzo_H

07-25-2007, 12:21

Sorry guys, this beats them all: https://youtube.com/watch?v=m_SPkIGq3vE

Mithradates

07-25-2007, 15:47

That Rambo film with hindsight is just wrong on so many levels.

Lorenzo_H

07-25-2007, 18:42

That Rambo film with hindsight is just wrong on so many levels.
I am not the hugest Rambo fan, so I am completely neutral. Explain to me how though?

Mikeus Caesar

07-25-2007, 18:42

The death of Chev in the brilliantly idioticly violent film 'Crank'. Falling out of the sky from 10,000ft up, he calmly pulls out his mobile phone and leaves a voice message on his girlfriend's answering machine, then falls smack into a car.

Crank was a brilliant film - better than others in that after all the things the hero had gone through to try to save himself, he died anyway.

Big King Sanctaphrax

07-25-2007, 18:51

Crank was an awful film. A good premise, but the script read like it had been written by a twelve year old.

Edit: Although, thinking about it, it was essentially a re-make of classic film noir DOA, wasn't it?

Fragony

07-26-2007, 10:32

Well not really a death, but Anakin's fall to the dark side and the final battle were pretty damn good, it's actually Starwars! Awesome dark music, you were like my brother! I loved you! Excellent acting here.

Man, such a cruel fate for Anakin, really felt sorry for the guy. The rest of the movie was pretty lighthearted so that scene kicked me in the face.

Ace of Spades

07-27-2007, 18:50

How about Cyrus in the beginning of "The Warriors"...He gives this grand speech about uniting the gangs & taking over NYC "Can you dig it?!"...Everyone cheers him like he's a king, then "BANG!"...He takes a bullet to the chest from Luther and falls backwards off the jungle gym :skull: ...Panic ensues

Alexander the Pretty Good

07-27-2007, 20:13

Sean Bean dies well in Equilibrium, a surprisingly good B-movie.

IrishArmenian

07-27-2007, 20:31

Sergeant Elias in Platoon
Mr. Blond in Reservoir Dogs
Daniel Craig's character in Layer Cake
Boris the Blade in Snatch: Tony shoots him once only to hear a "**** you!" and shoots again, Boris utters the same defiant phrase. It repeats once more before Tony replaces his magazine, takes careful aim and shoots Boris (who's been off-screen the whole time about 5 times)
Robert De Niro's and Jeremy Irons' characters in The Mission.
Vito, Sonny and Fredo Corleone in the Godfather I and II.
Luke in Cool Hand Luke "Now what we got here is failure to com---"

Xiahou

07-27-2007, 20:33

drone

07-27-2007, 22:19

Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) in Heat. "Told you I'm never going back."

caravel

07-28-2007, 01:01

Conradus

07-28-2007, 08:37

I just recall Marve's death in 'Sin City', talk about defiant till the end.

ShadesPanther

07-28-2007, 19:14

Theo's death in Children of Men is very moving.

He finds out that the girl will call her baby Dillan, after Theo's son who he has been grieving the whole way through the film.

But also Jasper's (Michael Caine) as well for the defiance of it.

Ramses II CP

07-28-2007, 22:39

Tommy's death in Trainspotting. Yeah, that's a death; slow, painful, self inflicted, stupid, meaningless, and disgusting. Spoiler:

Abandoned by his friends after they help him get hooked on heroin, he contracts AIDS and squats in a nasty flat in Scotland. Desperate to reclaim his life, he buys a kitten for the girlfriend whose dumping of him sparked the whole chain of events. Of course she sends his sore covered addict *ss packing, and the kitten ****s all over his apartment, to the point that he contracts toxoplasmosis, lapses into a coma, and rots in his apartment until someone notices the smell. Just to provide the final perfect indignity, the glimpse we get of him in this state suggests that the kitten may have started eating him before he was quite dead.

Gunny Hartman's death in Full Metal Jacket, for full circle existential realization. Having spent months breaking down young men to acquaint them with the reality of war, he is completely unable to understand the consequences of the pressure he piled on Private Pyle. The little girl Vietcong sniper who gets it later deserves an honorable mention.

For comedic effect, nothing beats the fat man in MP's The Meaning of Life. "Wafer thin mint, sir?" "**** off, I'm full!"

For impact, probably the Braveheart ending. Cheesy, expected, but effective nonetheless.

Craterus

07-28-2007, 22:41

The Da Vinci Code. When the Opus Dei albino guy shoots his master by mistake. Comedy genius.

And the end of Saints and Soldiers, if anyone has seen it.

TinCow

07-30-2007, 18:41

A lot of really good ones have been mentioned, but here's a personal favorite that I haven't seen listed yet: The death of Waring Hudsucker in The Hudsucker Proxy. Art and comedy have never been so at home together in a death scene.

Xiahou

07-30-2007, 20:07

Dutch_guy

07-30-2007, 21:52

Tony Montana in Scarface, and Vincent Vega's death in Pulp Fiction.

:balloon2:

InsaneApache

07-31-2007, 12:32

Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman in Lucky Number Slevin. Poetic justice indeed.

ShadesPanther

07-31-2007, 15:19

Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman in Lucky Number Slevin. Poetic justice indeed.
And the cop.

Mithrandir

07-31-2007, 15:57

Some 70's movie about a boy who is raising a bird from egg till buzzard, the moment he lets the buzzard fly free it get's shot down by a hunter... was supposed to be dramatic but it had me laughing for an hour seeing how my sister and I were just beforehand joking about how funny that would be...

InsaneApache

07-31-2007, 16:14

And the cop.

Yes. :yes:

Agent Miles

07-31-2007, 18:25

Last frame of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".

IrishArmenian

07-31-2007, 21:10

American History X! Let us not forget Danny!

Ramses II CP

08-01-2007, 00:53

Ahhh, AHX! The curb eater :yes: . Danny's was okay, but the curbie was one of the rare times when I was glad the camera cut away from the action.

InsaneApache

08-01-2007, 01:10

Amen to that. It made my teeth hurt for weeks after seeing that. Nice call btw.

seireikhaan

08-01-2007, 08:40

YODA!!!!

Geoffrey S

08-19-2007, 00:06

The most memorable recent one is George Hansen in Easy Rider. So senseless, after a great speech too.

Also, Layercake. Unexpected, puts an entirely new twist on the movie.

L.A. Confindential. Kevin Spacey. He didn't even see it coming.

Other greats: Blade Runner, Leon, The Green Mile, Serenity (Like a leaf on the wind... awful after watching the series), the guy in the dead village in Carnivale, Donnie Darko, anything in Pan's Labyrinth.

A lot of really good ones have been mentioned, but here's a personal favorite that I haven't seen listed yet: The death of Waring Hudsucker in The Hudsucker Proxy. Art and comedy have never been so at home together in a death scene.
Ah, a vastly underrated film. Great stuff. Be sure to watch The Man Who Wasn't There.

Innocentius

08-19-2007, 19:28

Jacob in Jacob's Ladder.

InsaneApache

08-20-2007, 10:01

The traffic cop in Electra Glide in Blue. Robert Blake IIRC. A naughty man in real life.

Martok

08-22-2007, 00:11

Also, Layercake. Unexpected, puts an entirely new twist on the movie.
Agreed. I just saw this movie about a week ago, and I really enjoyed it -- a pretty slick caper with a good dose of dark humor. (Thank you, BBC America! :2thumbsup: ) The death at the end was a great unexpected twist.

Decker

08-22-2007, 03:40

DiCaprio in The Departed- I jumped when he ...how do I use spoiler tags again?

Blodrast

08-22-2007, 21:03

DiCaprio in The Departed- I jumped when he ...how do I use spoiler tags again?

and [/spoil ], without the extra blanks, of course. Sometimes they don't work properly.

[spoil]like this

Devastatin Dave

08-22-2007, 21:16

Malcom X had a good one in it...

Decker

08-23-2007, 04:49

and [/spoil ], without the extra blanks, of course. Sometimes they don't work properly.

[spoil]like this
Thanks... now where was I? O yes...

he comes out of the elevator and gets shot in the head at the end.It worked!- anyways; That was one of the few times I've jumped while watching a movie. And because of that movie and Blood Diamond, I've gained new respect for the man as an actor.

Philippus Flavius Homovallumus

08-26-2007, 23:26

Daniel Day Lewis in The Crucible, hung just before he is able to finish the Lord's prayer.

Also, while I'm thinking. Last of the the Mohicans when Alice Munro throws herself off the cliff rather than be captured.

Boramir in LOTR was excellant but Sean Bean always dies well.

ShadesPanther

08-27-2007, 00:28

Boramir in LOTR was excellant but Sean Bean always dies well.

It's what he does best.

I so thought he was the bad guy and was going to die in Flightplan. Purely from past form.

pevergreen

08-27-2007, 09:10

Princess Bride. Who can forget "Wine in front of me"?

D. Washington in Man on Fire. :no: so sad.

Kralizec

08-27-2007, 18:53

Nick's death in The Deer Hunter.

Tratorix

08-27-2007, 22:57

I liked Matt Damon's death at the end of the The Departed. Kind of anticlimatic, but it was nice to see him get what was coming to him.

He looks like he's completely in the clear, and then as he's entering his apartment at the end, he gets shot.

Joe Pesci's death in goodfellas was also good.

He thinks he's going to become a made man, then when he's taken into the room where it's supposed to take place, the room is empty. He realizes whats going on just in time to get shot in the back of the head.

Philippus Flavius Homovallumus

08-27-2007, 23:50

It's what he does best.

I so thought he was the bad guy and was going to die in Flightplan. Purely from past form.

Wuh? You thought from past form that Sharpe was the bad guy and like to die?

ShadesPanther

08-28-2007, 00:08

Wuh? You thought from past form that Sharpe was the bad guy and like to die?

Sharpe is one of his few good guy roles. Almost every Hollywood or big movie, he is the bad guy.

Here are just a few of his bad guy roles.

The Island
National Treasure
Don't Say a Word
Essex Boys
GoldenEye
Patriot Games
The Hitcher

There are others but I'm not really familiar with them.

He's really only been 2 good guys recently.
In Equilibrium and in Flightplan

There are also characters that are flawed like Boromir in LOTR

Which could make me add Sean Bean's death in Equilibrium.

And major spoilers
A list of all the movies he's died in and how.

Sean Bean's deaths (http://www.compleatseanbean.com/deathbycow.html)

Tratorix

08-28-2007, 00:30

Sean Bean was also the bad guy in a movie called The Hitcher, where he was a hitchiker who murdered people who picked him up.

Sensei Warrior

09-01-2007, 06:40

Lots of good ones, I figured I'd add a few more:

The last charge of the Samurai in "Last of the Samurai" when they open up with the gats. Very sad.

The death of the main antagonist in, "Rob Roy". You couldnt wait for him to die, or at least I couldn't.

The 'death' of Brad Pitt's character in, "Fight Club".

I'm surprised no one's mentioned this one even though its not shown, the dog in "Ol' Yeller". Its surprising how much of an effect an animal dying can be.

The nanny at the brithday party in, "The Omen." Actually, add the Priest to it as well.

Acht, and there are several more that I thought of while typing this that I now can't remember. Oh well when I do ...

Noir

09-04-2007, 12:14

William Blake in "Dead Man" by Jim Jarmush

In a ship burial.

Seamus Fermanagh

09-05-2007, 22:48

CR: Good one.

Agreed on: Capt. from Private Ryan, Crowe in Gladiator, Hauer's character from Blade Runner, and Bean as Boromir (extended version much better lead in to this).

I'd add:

Jimmy Cagney's finale in White Heat.

John Vernon's in Questor Tapes (an otherwise thoroughly forgettable pilot).

Robert Redfords' in The Great Waldo Pepper.

George Peppard's in The Blue Max.

Gabriel Byrne's death in The Usual Suspects.

Marlon Brando's in Young Lions.

Matt Broderick's in Glory.

Toshiro Mifune's in Seven Samurai.

Henry Fondas AND Jason Robard's in Once Upon a Time in the West.

Evil_Maniac From Mars

09-06-2007, 00:33

Most of the deaths in Hot Fuzz. It's creativity gone wild.

Bijo

09-06-2007, 00:52

Lots of good ones, I figured I'd add a few more:

The last charge of the Samurai in "Last of the Samurai" when they open up with the gats. Very sad.
A very good scene. That commander character who yells to destroy them and keep shooting is one of those annoying roles.

The 'death' of Brad Pitt's character in, "Fight Club".
I don't find this a good death, though to each his taste. It was a good story but I was not particularly... "moved" by this representation of death.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned this one even though its not shown, the dog in "Ol' Yeller". Its surprising how much of an effect an animal dying can be.
I haven't seen it, but that title "Ol' Yeller" is funny :P

Sensei Warrior

09-06-2007, 03:54

A very good scene. That commander character who yells to destroy them and keep shooting is one of those annoying roles.

I agree. The character was very slimy, scummy and underhanded. A nice depiction of the 'modern world', as compared to the Leader of the Samurai, upright, noble, and with honor. I'm not saying there was alot of symbolism, but I think someone took the time to construct those characters like that, to give you another emotional hook into those last few scenes.

I don't find this a good death, though to each his taste. It was a good story but I was not particularly... "moved" by this representation of death.

Hmm, true.
Just through the movie you start to see the character paint himself into a corner. Towards the end of the movie I was thinking how the heck he was gonna get out of it, short of killing himself.

Then the scene when the movie opened up, I went holy crap, I forgot all about the fact that he started the movie with a gun in his mouth, and then I went, uh oh, he's gonna die, then he shoots himself (visually that shot is spectacular), and lives. Left me kind of spinning.

Course, then again, I'm no movie critic ~;)

I haven't seen it, but that title "Ol' Yeller" is funny :P

It's been a long time since I've seen it. Its a Disney movie I think. About a farmer boy and his dog. The movie itself isn't memorable, except the end part. Anyone who has seen that, and the emotion it conveys, doesn't forget it.

seireikhaan

09-06-2007, 04:15

I agree. The character was very slimy, scummy and underhanded. A nice depiction of the 'modern world', as compared to the Leader of the Samurai, upright, noble, and with honor. I'm not saying there was alot of symbolism, but I think someone took the time to construct those characters like that, to give you another emotional hook into those last few scenes.
Masato Harada, the man who played Omura also played a remarkably similar role in Fearless. In Fearless, he's a corrupt Japanese politician looking to exploit and humiliate China during the very early 1900's. Although he's only been in those two movies, I think he does a pretty good job. Turns out he's much more accomplished(at least in number of titles) as a film director.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masato_Harada

Seamus Fermanagh

09-06-2007, 14:10

Add in the show openers for the first few seasons of Six Feet Under. Weird, Funny, Sad -- what a weirdly appropriate motif they had going.

Geoffrey S

09-06-2007, 15:28

I agree. The character was very slimy, scummy and underhanded. A nice depiction of the 'modern world', as compared to the Leader of the Samurai, upright, noble, and with honor.
Not old-fashioned, unwilling to move with the times, and a danger to the future sovereignty of Japan? ~;)

Sensei Warrior

09-07-2007, 01:50

Not old-fashioned, unwilling to move with the times, and a danger to the future sovereignty of Japan? ~;)

Exactly, and there in lies the rub, does it not?

The movie needed to do a little emotional manipulation in order to keep everything going the way they wanted to. The movie tries very hard to get you to sympathize with the samurai. Playing up the noble warrior role of the samurai to the hilt, willing to die for the emperor, the heroic last stand, dying for the 'right' cause, etc.

Not all samurai were like that. Most ruled their people using the same rules they lived by, that their people lived or died by their hand. Much the same as the samurai lived or died by the emperors hand. This often led to the samurai killing the peasants they ruled over the slightest infraction. Not necessarily the best trait for a good leader, but common enough back in the day. The japanese samurai, and feudal knights weren't too different from each other really.

The samurai were also stubborn, disturbingly traditional, and probably a little xenophobic. Thus the reality of them being unwilling to modernize. Of course rooting for dated tyrants who rule with an iron fist is hard to do, so the movie idealized the samurai bringing the ideal traits of them to the forefront and minimizing the not so ideal parts of them.

On the other hand Harada's character could have been very easily looking out for the best interests of Japan, but if they portrayed him as such, he wouldnt have seemed like the bad guy. Thus let the vilification commence.

In the end, the movie was romanticizing the Feudal Age of Japan and its traditional ways. Much like other movies do the same for the European Middle Ages, and we all know that Age was no bed of roses. Progression and modernization were vilified much like it always is, most people are very resistant to change. The two characters in the movie were polarized to that end.

As I look back on this post i realized, I'm probably starting to derail this thread. In the end, I happened to like 'Last of the Samurai', and even though it is probably nothing more than a mildly entertaining movie to most, it does seem to have some nice cinematic elements to it. However the point of the thread was to talk about memorable deaths in film, thus the spoiler tags so you guys can more easily ignore my ramblings. I make my apologies and exit stage left. :bow:

Bijo

09-07-2007, 03:07

You make some good points, Sensei Warrior.

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Another good death is in the movie Troy when Achilles perishes.

(What I dislike about this movie though is the general story: it depicts the foolish primitive nature of humanity (which is usually seen in many movies) but especially the two young fools who cause a war because of that thing called "love". So... men are to die because a young prince acts like a fool.)

Conradus

09-07-2007, 07:54

Geoffrey S

09-07-2007, 12:58

As I look back on this post i realized, I'm probably starting to derail this thread. In the end, I happened to like 'Last of the Samurai', and even though it is probably nothing more than a mildly entertaining movie to most, it does seem to have some nice cinematic elements to it. However the point of the thread was to talk about memorable deaths in film, thus the spoiler tags so you guys can more easily ignore my ramblings. I make my apologies and exit stage left. :bow:
I agree with your post, and you make good points on the reasons behind the way The Last Samurai was made. The movie may have been a polarised and over-positive depiction, but I enjoyed it all the same for the fact that it was a good film.

In case you haven't seen it, you may want to try the oldish series Shogun. It's a bit dated at times now, but it doesn't glorify the samurai way but still evokes sympathy for most of its characters. The book's also good.

Sensei Warrior

09-07-2007, 14:23

Did that series have Richard Chamberlain in it? If it did then I saw it. I saw a series of Samurai something back in the day, and I'm talking bout 11-12 years ago on VHS. Richard's character was a Portugese sailor that gets shipwrecked off the coast of Japan. Stroy continues on from there.

I agree, it has a much better depiction of Samurai, and ninjas IIRC.

Geoffrey S

09-07-2007, 17:14

That's the one.

Seamus Fermanagh

09-07-2007, 17:57

...but I really wanted to see Paris die too

Isn't Ms. Hilton having enough problems of late. Why drag her into this?

Bijo

09-07-2007, 18:08

Welcome to the Illias~:cheers:
Though in the movie it was quite clear that the war was largely due to Agamemnon and his imperialistic ideas.
That said, I liked Achilles' death, but I really wanted to see Paris die too
Perhaps, but those two young fools certainly gave him good reason to start in the first place and to intensify his anger and greed. In the movie "peace" has just been established and the foolish prince immediately takes away the young woman? Pah, he did no honour to his lands and folk nor to his father: he betrayed his father and his people and now poor men must fight and perish because of his foolish act.

Now HIS death would have been a splendid one indeed, but noooooo... he survives like a coward and shoots the GOOD (though that is subjective) Achilles down with a bow and arrow AGAIN like a coward! Argh! He has the worst role in the whole film! "Oh, I love you. I would kill for you. Let us flee, together." The fool :P

On second thought I find the death of Achilles a terrible one simply because that schmuck prince kills him. Didn't his brother die too? That was a good death scene (and unfortunately again because of the foolish young prince :laugh4:).