Spoilert Alert! The Greatest Death Scenes Thread.

[gwynplaine]

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[Aesop Rocks]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

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Wood Hite, played by Jeremy Renner confronts Dick Liddil played by Paul Schneider, the two get into a shoot out at close range in an upstairs bedroom and Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) shoots Renner's character in the head.

The actual assassination of Jesse James. One of the most tense moments of any film that I've personally ever watched. I also cried hardcore at the scene. Something about it just got to me. Rockwell, Affleck, and Pitt did a wonderful, brilliant job.

 

[Dark Victory]

Rashomon

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the three POVs

Thin Red Line

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Jim Caviezal's last gaze at the sun

Last Temptation of Christ

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It is accomplished...

 

[Ziggyman]

As much as I thought the movie was 'ehh'...Death Proof's car crash was pretty sick...

 

[gwynplaine]

^ Good ones Aesop, Victory and Ziggy


Dead Zone

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Walken's character sacrifices himself

The Fly

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Brundlefly dies at the hands of Veronica

Videodrome

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"Long live the New Flesh"

 

[chesslover]

Sometimes A Great Notion.

End of United 93.

 

[Two-Face=Badass]

Once Upon a Time in the West:

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The Man with the Harmonica finally kills Frank for hanging his brother, and Frank dies with the knowledge he'll never be anything more than a thug despite trying the whole film to become a businessman.

 

[gwynplaine]

^

Full Metal Jacket

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Pyle murders Hartman, then commits suicide.

 

[Two-Face=Badass]

City of Life and Death

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After everything Kadokawa has witnessed - mass murder of civilians, soldiers throwing children out of high story windows, endless rape of women and finally the last safe zone invaded and people bruned and slaughtered - he lets two prisoners run freeing a beatiful filed before shooting himself.

 

[gwynplaine]

Die Hard

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Hans Gruber plummets to his death

Cyrano De Bergerac

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As Cyrano dies, Roxane realizes that it was he, and not Christian, whom she had really loved all along.

The Shining

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Jack kills Halloran with an axe. Jack freezes to death in the labyrinth

 

[Doctor Jones]

Die Hard

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Hans Gruber plummets to his death

Cyrano De Bergerac

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As Cyrano dies, Roxane realizes that it was he, and not Christian, whom she had really loved all along.

The Shining

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Jack kills Halloran with an axe. Jack freezes to death in the labyrinth

I loved how in

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Live Free Or Die Hard McClane had to shoot himself to kill Olyphont. That was

 

[Harry_Lime02]

The Departed

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I dunno about best, but DiCaprio's is certainly the most shocking. I liked the way Ray Winstone goes out too.

 

[gwynplaine]

I loved how in

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Live Free Or Die Hard McClane had to shoot himself to kill Olyphont. That was

That was pretty cool indeed.

 

[gwynplaine]

The Departed

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I dunno about best, but DiCaprio's is certainly the most shocking. I liked the way Ray Winstone goes out too.

Yeah, there were some good death scenes in that movie. Scorcese is really good, among other things, at death scenest:.

Goodfellas

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Pesci gets "made"

Casino

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Pesci gets buried alive

Cape Fear

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De Niro drowns, speaking in tongues

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yeah, there were some good death scenes in that movie. Scorcese is really good, among other things, at death scenest:.

Goodfellas

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Pesci gets "made"

Casino

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Pesci gets buried alive

Cape Fear

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De Niro drowns, speaking in tongues

Saying those two in a row made me laugh.

Yeah

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Cady going out and drowning was great. And his last look before he went under completely. That dead stare at the family with just his eyes. It leaves in impression for nightmares for them.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Also the murders in Zodiac. All very well done. The Lake murder was the most unsettling.

 

[gwynplaine]

Saying those two in a row made me laugh.

Yeah

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Cady going out and drowning was great. And his last look before he went under completely. That dead stare at the family with just his eyes. It leaves in impression for nightmares for them.

Also the murders in Zodiac. All very well done. The Lake murder was the most unsettling.

 

[gwynplaine]

Game of Death

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After an epic fight, Bruce Lee strangles Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to death

 

[Sawyer]

The Exorcist

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I've always thought the death of Father Karras was pretty awesome. He sees that Father Merrin has died and just immediately starts beating the **** out of Regan, telling the demon to enter him. When the demon complies, he hops out the bedroom window and down that bigass stone staircase.

 

[Hotwire]

Saving Private Ryan

Watch the whole thing, or jump to 4:50.

 

[gwynplaine]

The Exorcist

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I've always thought the death of Father Karras was pretty awesome. He sees that Father Merrin has died and just immediately starts beating the **** out of Regan, telling the demon to enter him. When the demon complies, he hops out the bedroom window and down that bigass stone staircase.

Saving Private Ryan

Watch the whole thing, or jump to 4:50.

Great Films, Great Death Scenes

 

[Tron Bonne]

All That Jazz

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Bob Fosse choreographs his own death through Joe Gideon

 

[gwynplaine]

^ All that Jazz

Also Cabaret was great too.

 

[The Navigator]

Once Upon a Time in the West:

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The Man with the Harmonica finally kills Frank for hanging his brother, and Frank dies with the knowledge he'll never be anything more than a thug despite trying the whole film to become a businessman.

 

[afan]

"Rosebud......."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZOzk7T93wE

Old Yeller.

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Loved family pet, infected with rabies, must be put down by young boy.

and in keeping with an earlier post re. ET...i.e. classic deaths with a happy ending

Lois Lane's demise in Superman:The Movie.

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Superman reverses time....did I really need a spoiler tag

The Iron Giant.

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The parts scattered across the globe are reassembling