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Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 4:34:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		On the heels of my "Best Chase" thread, here you'll get to vote for the best death scene in a film. Doesn't necessarily have to be a violent death, though I suspect more than a few of your suggestions will be. I'll kick it off:

Al Pacino portraying the final moments of Tony Montana in Scarface. He plays the insanity to the hilt, without actually overacting.

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 5:21:53 PM   
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RE: Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 5:23:18 PM   
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"I think she's dead..."

"No, I'm not!"

(sounds of gunfire and power tools...)

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 5:28:36 PM   
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"I think she's dead..."

"No, I'm not!"

(sounds of gunfire and power tools...)

Come to think of it, they had an episode of "Great Deaths" in their first season...the death of Attila the Hun was pretty good too! He standing in front of his tent gazing out over the fields - then springs up and backwards, stone dead!

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 5:29:50 PM   
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RE: Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 8:08:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		5) Willem DaFoe in Platoon
4) Christopher Walken in Deer Hunter
3) Ricardo Montalban in Wrath of Khan (or Peck in Moby Dick, take your pick)
2) Lew Ayres in All Quiet On The Western Front.

..and of course, the number one, undisputable champion is

1) "All these memories will be lost in time, like tears in rain." -- Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner.


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RE: Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 8:21:38 PM   
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1) "All these memories will be lost in time, like tears in rain." -- Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner.



Damn, been too long since I saw that film!

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 8:52:22 PM   
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'They Died with Their Boots On'. Flynn played General Custer. As the final man of his unit he fell while fighting desperate battle.

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 9:48:46 PM   
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Damn, been too long since I saw that film!


Unbelievably I sat through the awful narrated version recently just because I was too lazy to slip in proper version into the dvd player.

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 9:49:59 PM   
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Another one I just thought of, was actually one where we don't really see the death: the final scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 10:03:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'd have to go with the scene in "Saving Private Ryan" where the German sniper is looking through his scope...and for a split second sees the American sniper pointing his gun right at him, and he pulls the trigger...

Bullet shatters German sniper's scope approximately 3 microseconds before it shatters his face....

YEAH!

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 10:44:06 PM   
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Well, then you only have yourself to blame!

Another one I just thought of, was actually one where we don't really see the death: the final scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Oh yah, I'll go along with you on that one. Great final scene.

I'll put in another nominee:
Steve McQueens' death in 'The Sand Pebles'. Fights off numerous Chinese with a B.A.R., then dies making his run to escape -
"what happened...what the hell happened!"
(I also just love that battle scene when they went up river to break the blockade and rescue everyone at China Light. The whole sequence sends shivers up my spine).

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 10:44:57 PM   
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RE: Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 10:52:42 PM   
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That same feeling is given to me when I see the Willem DaFoe scene in "Platoon". The nobility expressed by sacrificing oneself for your comrades always tugs at my heart.

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 10:56:15 PM   
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"Madness"

Couldn't be more apt.

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 11:04:18 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Terminus

On the DVD special edition commentary track by Dale Dye, he says just one word when Tom Berenger shoots Willem Defoe:

"Madness"

Couldn't be more apt.


Terminus, have you watched "The Mission"? It features both Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons, and it IS a war movie, given the political climate of the time represented. I thoroughly enjoyed it.


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RE: Best death ever! - 8/18/2005 11:05:25 PM   
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RE: Best death ever! - 8/19/2005 1:25:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Another couple of great movie deaths occurred to me, and both were in Here to Eternity.
First was the anonymous US soldier who is running across the quad at Schofield barracks yelling and panting for breath at the same time " ..the Japs are bombing Wheeler Field..." as a (we assume) Zero comes in low for a strafing run and finishes him off while plastering the barracks pretty well - That scene always gets to me.

The second scene was at the end when Prvt Robert E.Lee Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) gets killed trying to rejoin his unit the evening of Dec 7th. Sneaking across the golf course to their beach position he's gunned down by our own guys. Then Burt Lancaster stands over his dead body telling him what a hard head he's been - as the song "re-enlistment blues" plays softly in the background.
Both very powerful and memorable I thought...

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/19/2005 2:30:03 AM   
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RE: Best death ever! - 8/19/2005 3:21:08 AM   
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Michael Douglas' apparent suicide in "The Game".

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/19/2005 3:43:35 AM   
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RE: Best death ever! - 8/19/2005 4:31:35 AM   
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Slim Pickens, as Major Kong, astride an H-bomb like a bronco rider, hat in hand, screaming with delight as he plumets in a graceful parabolic arc toward "nuk-ku-lar combat toe to toe with the Rooskis"




Ok Cap', hard to argue!

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/19/2005 5:01:02 AM   
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RE: Best death ever! - 8/19/2005 5:46:46 AM   
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RE: Best death ever! - 8/19/2005 6:02:00 AM   
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Slim Pickens, as Major Kong, astride an H-bomb like a bronco rider, hat in hand, screaming with delight as he plumets in a graceful parabolic arc toward "nuk-ku-lar combat toe to toe with the Rooskis"




You got me on that one. Now that was a death hard to forget

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/19/2005 6:06:54 AM   
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Slim Pickens, as Major Kong, astride an H-bomb like a bronco rider, hat in hand, screaming with delight as he plumets in a graceful parabolic arc toward "nuk-ku-lar combat toe to toe with the Rooskis"





OMG! I STILL laugh out loud even thinking about this sequence.

"YAAAAAHHHH-HOOOOO. WOOOOH!"


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RE: Best death ever! - 8/27/2005 9:55:37 PM   
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BUt the 'Heil Hitler', though historically accurate, pissed me off...

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/27/2005 10:24:03 PM   
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Even though he didn't die, O.J. was pretty funny in "The Naked Gun" when he got shot, etc. etc.


On that note, what avout Ricardo Montalbans LUdwig charcter. Dart in the neck, falls off a building, gets run over by a bulldozoer, and then trampled by a marching band. Priceless (along with George Kennedy's "My uncle went the same way....")

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/27/2005 10:41:35 PM   
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Well, then you only have yourself to blame!

Another one I just thought of, was actually one where we don't really see the death: the final scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Oh yah, I'll go along with you on that one. Great final scene.

I'll put in another nominee:
Steve McQueens' death in 'The Sand Pebles'. Fights off numerous Chinese with a B.A.R., then dies making his run to escape -
"what happened...what the hell happened!"
(I also just love that battle scene when they went up river to break the blockade and rescue everyone at China Light. The whole sequence sends shivers up my spine).


I agree 110%. In fact it was that movie (and scene) that forced me to put the Chinese gunboats in War Plan Orange.

"High pressure steam wow" priceless. "Live steam. Live steam... DEAD Steam."

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RE: Best death ever! - 8/28/2005 12:50:26 AM   
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think it was Pat Garret and Billy the kid,great western

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