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| Author: | El Maskado [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:00 pm ] |
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What are your favorite poetic and sad deaths onscreen? The ones that pop in my mind are John Coffrey electricution in The Green Mile and how the power surge went off, William Wallace's torture before his death in Braveheart, the last 15 minutes of the Last of the Mohicans, Danny Vinyard getting shot in the bathroom in American History X, McCraffey's funeral in Backdraft |
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| Author: | zingy [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:01 pm ] |
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El_Masked_esteROIDe_user wrote: Danny Vinyard getting shot in the bathroom in American History X Very much agreed. |
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| Author: | dolcevita [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:03 pm ] |
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Hah! You know what this reminds me of for some reason? When Torvil and Dean died at the end of Bolero and triggered such an onslaught of Poetic deaths (on ice) that the judges started getting too depressed and they had to make dieing in the routines illegal. 
I'll have to think about this one...I've seen alot of death scenes. |
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| Author: | Terminator1997 [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:09 pm ] |
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Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi. The final battle between Luke and Darth Vader still chokes me up even though i've seen it hundreds of times. |
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| Author: | Heinrich Himmler [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:11 pm ] |
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rutger hauers death in blade runner, willem dafoe getting shot in the back, dying on his knees in platoon. |
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| Author: | Terminator1997 [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:13 pm ] |
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Joseba B-Loki wrote: willem dafoe getting shot in the back, dying on his knees in platoon. ohh that was a good one. |
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| Author: | dolcevita [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:16 pm ] |
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Joseba B-Loki wrote: rutger hauers death in blade runner, With the pidgeon/dove and the light shining? That scene was seriously rich in religious imagery. 
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| Author: | Spidey [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:17 pm ] |
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Paris Hilton in House of Wax :wink: |
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| Author: | dolcevita [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:23 pm ] |
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The end of Glory comes to mind. Especially in light of Trip's earlier comments about what he's fighting for. I cried. I liked when Kevin Spacey was killed in L.A. Confidential too. He had come to talk in confidentiality not realizing who he was speaking to was in on it. After the shot you see this slow realization, and in his dieing words he says the one thing he knows could expose them without them knowing it. Pretty damn beautiful death scene. I will think of alot more soon. |
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| Author: | Terminator1997 [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:33 pm ] |
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Richard Jordan's death in Gettysburg. He played Confederate General Lewis Armistead. He didn't die in the movie but was mortally wounded. When he was laying on the field he was told his old friend from the Union Army Winfield Scott Hancock was also shot and he said "No! Not....both of us.....not....all of us....." It's a very powerful scene. |
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| Author: | dolcevita [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:36 pm ] |
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I'm starting to pull together clues here. Termi, are you an American history buff? :grin: |
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| Author: | Terminator1997 [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:38 pm ] |
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dolcevita wrote: I'm starting to pull together clues here. Termi, are you an American history buff? :grin: Yep...especially the Civil War. I'm making my 5th trip to Gettysburg next month :grin: |
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| Author: | dolcevita [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:41 pm ] |
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Terminator1997 wrote: dolcevita wrote: I'm starting to pull together clues here. Termi, are you an American history buff? :grin: Yep...especially the Civil War. I'm making my 5th trip to Gettysburg next month :grin: Yeh, even I haven't seen Burns Civil War from front to back. :wink: And I know about your trip. This is increbible. I don't know why it took me this long to pick up on it. You got any good book and movie recommendations? |
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| Author: | Libs [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:42 pm ] |
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Lester in American Beauty was pretty poetic, with the smile on his face and everything. |
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| Author: | Goldie [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:47 pm ] |
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Randy Quaid in Independence Day. ( talking out the first ship and what was his line as he always thought he was taken by them before ) |
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| Author: | Terminator1997 [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:48 pm ] |
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dolcevita wrote: Terminator1997 wrote: dolcevita wrote: I'm starting to pull together clues here. Termi, are you an American history buff? :grin: Yep...especially the Civil War. I'm making my 5th trip to Gettysburg next month :grin: Yeh, even I haven't seen Burns Civil War from front to back. :wink: And I know about your trip. This is increbible. I don't know why it took me this long to pick up on it. You got any good book and movie recommendations? Well, "The Killer Angels" is highly recommended. It's what the movie Gettysburg was based on. Also, "Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee" is another good read. As far as movies, i take it you've seen Glory. Other than that, i recommend Gettysburg and Gods and Generals. And i do definitely recommend Ken Burns Civil war if you have the time on your hands to watch it. Nothing explains and brings to life the Civil War any better. April, 1865: The Month That Saved America was another great documentary. It tells of critical decisions that were made that ended The Civil War. It also discusses the Lincoln Assassination. Speaking of the Lincoln Assassination, TNT had made a great movie on that a couple years back about it. I think it was called "Booth" or something like that. I'd love to find it on DVD but haven't been able to yet. |
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| Author: | Joker's Thug #3 [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:49 pm ] |
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I agree with those, another one for me would be in Road to Perdition when Hanks kills Newman. |
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| Author: | dolcevita [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:49 pm ] |
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Termi, thanks! I copied them and pm'ed them to myself so that I'd have them on store for the summer. check your pm in a minute |
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| Author: | Brock Middlebrook [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:52 pm ] |
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The execution at the end of Breaker Morant was sad. The killing of Billy at the end of Peckinpah's Pat Garret and Billy the Kid was a powerful metaphor for the corporatization of America and the death of the individual. Arguably the saddest cinematic death of them all was Chris Walken at the end of The Deer Hunter. "The trees." Bang. |
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| Author: | Goldie [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:54 pm ] |
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Goldie wrote: Randy Quaid in Independence Day. ( talking out the first ship and what was his line as he always thought he was taken by them before ) Also Terminator in T2 and Obi by lowering his saber to Vader in Star Wars - this has to be the #1, IMO |
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| Author: | Terminator1997 [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:54 pm ] |
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dolcevita wrote: Termi, thanks! I copied them and pm'ed them to myself so that I'd have them on store for the summer. check your pm in a minute OH!!! I almost forgot Andersonville! A hidden gem of a movie. It's about the notorious Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, Georgia. Such a sad an moving film. |
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| Author: | baumer72 [ Thu May 12, 2005 5:59 pm ] |
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There was a scene in Last Samurai when Cruise's brother in law dies at the hands of the British. Very moving. Also, I agree with Vader's death in Return of the Jedi Spacey's in American Beauty Two Socks in Dances With Wolves |
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| Author: | Atoddr [ Thu May 12, 2005 6:00 pm ] |
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How about Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien 3? It would be more poetic if I didn't hate the movie so much. |
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| Author: | dolcevita [ Thu May 12, 2005 6:02 pm ] |
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Oh, To Live, When Gong Li's daughter hemorhages to death during childbirth because all the doctor's were in jail. With Li there clutching her and begging for help. I probably cried at least the first three times I saw it. 
Or when her and the little boy are assassinated by the gang boss in Triad at the end, on the island. That was harsh too. |
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| Author: | makeshift [ Thu May 12, 2005 6:17 pm ] |
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Everytime I watch Boyz n the Hood (a film I regrettably left off my top 100 of all time), Ricky's (Morris Chestnut) death scene breaks my heart into a thousand pieces. In my opinion, John Singleton single handedly won the best Director Academy Award with that scene. Too bad the Academy disagreed. Danny Vinyard in American History X is tough to watch. Willem Dafoe in Platoon is heart breaking. Virtually the entire final scene of Glory kills me everytime I watch it. Tom Hank's death at the hands of Jude Law in Road To Perdition (another film I should have had on my top 100) is not only heart breaking, but shocking. |
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