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I'm gonna throw this one thread out there and see who goes for it. My Daughter & son-in-law are in town today, and we're gonna hang out. Later on, we're going to an open jam-- did I mention that my SiL is an ass-kickin' guitarist? I figure if Robert Plant can perform with his son-in-law, so can I!
So, let's hear it-- What's your favorite movie or TV death scene? One that maybe even brought you to tears, or made you angry, or whatever.
Mine is Leonard Nimoy's death scene from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. It's hokey as hell, I know, and cornier than an Iowa farm, and William Shatner....well, he's William Shatner, ok? There's no help for him at this late date. But I thought Nimoy did it well, and I liked the way the writers 'snuck up' on the moviegoer with it. I especially like the bit of business where he struggles to his feet, then straightens his uniform before turning to face his captain and friend for the last time.
Okay, DUers-- Give!
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)Some great scenes in that movie. I loved the initial confrontation between Doc and Ringo in the saloon with Doc taunting him with his whiskey cup.
Ron Green
(9,819 posts)Jimmy Durante kicks the bucket.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)that's all I could find but I remember it being much longer...maybe they (whoever posted it) didn't wanna get in trouble for piracy so they shortened it...or my memory is just bad (which is very likely as well).
Iggo
(47,470 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I can stop wondering how I blew that memory so badly.
nolabear
(41,901 posts)Tommy Lee Jones just saying his name made me cry like a baby.
My newly lobotomized computer won't let me embed it. *sigh*
BootinUp
(46,848 posts)Doc Holliday
(719 posts)If you like it, then it counts.
Besides, I figure if I can put Star Trek up there, then anything goes.
Tikki
(14,532 posts)do not watch this video.
It is not about the dying...that's a given...it's how the end...ends.
Tikki
underpants
(182,064 posts)I won't post it here because of the language - including the "N" word but it is a great scene.
Neoma
(10,039 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)taterguy
(29,582 posts)Really
hunter
(38,240 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)"My mind is going."
Doc Holliday
(719 posts)Spooky.
Swede
(33,077 posts)aikoaiko
(34,113 posts)Son of Gob
(1,502 posts)IcyPeas
(21,682 posts)mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)BootinUp
(46,848 posts)The Great Waldo Pepper - a movie about a great flyer and his friends barnstorming in the early days of the airplane. His friend is developing a mono-wing aircraft and attempts to fly an outside loop at a stunt fair. He crashes but survives, trapped in the aircraft, with gasoline all over the place. People from the stands rush out around the plane, they are smoking. Waldo Pepper attempts to shoo them away, a fire starts, Waldos friend is panicking, pleading with people not to let him burn. Waldo has to knock him out as he catches on fire. He goes into a rage at the people who just stood there and wouldn't help, and then chases them away with a plane diving at the people on the ground.
midnight armadillo
(3,612 posts)"Sean Bean dies in every movie"
BootinUp
(46,848 posts)BootinUp
(46,848 posts)oneshooter
(8,614 posts)MountainMama
(237 posts)If anyone says John Wayne couldn't act, I point them to this movie and "The Searchers."
rrneck
(17,671 posts)Tim Roth dies about 5.20
fifthoffive
(382 posts)The death of the Sheriff of Nottingham in "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves."
I actually felt sorry for the Sheriff. His bewildered look when he recognized the instrument of his death as the dagger he gave Marion for protection was heartbreaking. Marion had re-gifted it to Robin Hood who used it to kill the Sheriff.
Oh - and the drooling - I've never seen that in any other death scene.
YankeyMCC
(8,401 posts)PuffedMica
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The good part isn't until about 2:10
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)jmowreader
(50,419 posts)BootinUp
(46,848 posts):embarrassed:
How about Poseidon Adventure? The priest played by Gene Hackman heroically dies shutting off the steam valve, while complaining to God about taking so many lives.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)(Not really.)
Another vote for Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner. I did not know that he improvised that scene. From the original script:
I've known adventures, seen places you people will never see, I've been Offworld and back... frontiers! I've stood on the back deck of a blinker bound for the Plutition Camps with sweat in my eyes watching the stars fight on the shoulder of Orion...I've felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the black galaxies and seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear. I've seen it, felt it...!
Hauer described this as "opera talk" and "hi-tech speech" with no bearing on the rest of the film, so he "put a knife in it" the night before filming, without Scott's knowledge. In interview with Dan Jolin, Hauer said that these final lines showed that Batty wanted to "make his mark on existence ... the robot in the final scene, by dying, shows Deckard what a real man is made of."
When Hauer performed the scene, the film crew applauded and some even cried.
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 Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. [pause] Time to die.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_soliloquy
DryHump
(199 posts)Yes! Rutger Hauer as Roy - poetry!!!!
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Taverner
(55,476 posts)Just when you think she's going to bite it one way, it turns out to be another.
When I first saw this I was practically curled up in my seat...
Final Destination - probably the most original idea in horror in a long time
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Initech
(99,881 posts)"Hey Max... guy gets on the MTA... dies. Do you think anyone will notice?"