fav character death scenes

[hectorberlioz]

This is where we mourn our fav movie characters who die in the movies.

top 4 for me...

Adam Goldberg's death in saving private ryan really takes the cake.

Ghandi's death in Ghandi

Ralph Fiennes death in Schindler's List (I know he's a bad guy, but still....)

mel's death scene in Braveheart

waaaaaaaaa!!!!!! I cant take it anymore!! *starts crying*

[Rosie Gamgee]

Braveheart??!?! Well, I don't quite like that movie a whole lot..

Umm... (not in any order)

Simon Birch - Simon Birch

Maximus Meridius Decimus - Gladiatior

Gabriel Martin, and Thomas Martin - Patriot

Boromir - LotR: FotR

Beth March - Little Women

Neo - Matrix (Love that scene when he runs into the room and then Smith just kinda grins, and you see the shell fall on the floor.)

I've got a few more, I'm sure- just can't think of 'em at the moment.

P.S. Totally out of context: I was just sitting here thinking and I was staring at this book, and then I realized it said 'Middle Earth'. And then I woke from my reverie and realized it said 'Midlife Health'. LOL!

[hectorberlioz]

P.S. Totally out of context: I was just sitting here thinking and I was staring at this book, and then I realized it said 'Middle Earth'. And then I woke from my reverie and realized it said 'Midlife Health'. LOL!
i do that a lot myself:p

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Gabriele Tinti---Flight of the Phoenix (French guy trying to get home to see his (dying?) wife in France

Obi-won-Kinobe---Star Wars (although he sort of hung around for a couple of more movies

Kirk Douglas (Einar)---The Vikings (Well, they did give him a funeral fit for a viking)

(John Mills?) British officer commanding the section of Peter O'Toole's army that was annihilated---Zulu Dawn

And one hopes PJ won't botch Theoden's end in ROTK.

[Lizra]

Old man Genco, in the Godfather. Excellent!

[jellyfishannah]

Michael Sullivan in Road to Perdition :(

John Coffey in The Green Mile :(

Mellish in Saving Private Ryan :(

William Wallace in Braveheart :(

Boromir in LOTR :(!

*runs away wailing with grief*

*is not seen for days*

[BeardofPants]

Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient. :( Gets me every time. *sniffles*

I cried when Jack died in the Titanic as well... What? What are you lookin' at?? I was young! And stupid! And... oh, sod off, I bet you cried as well!! :mad:

[jellyfishannah]

I cried when Jack died in the Titanic as well... What? What are you lookin' at?? I was young! And stupid! And... oh, sod off, I bet you cried as well!!

You're right! I did! Twice! :o

[jellyfishannah]

:eek: I forgot the most horrible one!:eek:

Oh! I forgot her name! The girl. The Bjork girl in Dancer in the Dark. That part is sooooo sad.
:(

[BeardofPants]

Originally posted by jellyfishannah
:eek: I forgot the most horrible one!:eek:

Oh! I forgot her name! The girl. The Bjork girl in Dancer in the Dark. That part is sooooo sad.
:(

Oh no!! That was a horrible movie!! I cried for days after that. :(

[hectorberlioz]

Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient. Gets me every time. *sniffles*
the sad part about fiennes death in schindler's list is that he helped schindler.
now why dont we have a weeping smiley here at the moot?:mad:

[Khamûl]

Originally posted by BeardofPants
I cried when Jack died in the Titanic as well... What? What are you lookin' at?? I was young! And stupid! And... oh, sod off, I bet you cried as well!! :mad: To be perfectly honest, I laughed. Rose says "I'll never let go Jack" moments before she lets go. It just struck me funny. Granted, it might have been a bit sad if I would have actually watched the entire movie...

[Anglorfin]

Quint in JAWS

I can't really think of anymore that weren't already mentioned

[zinnite]

Gretchen in Donnie Darko. Wait... No, Frank in Donnie Darko.

The Sumo wrestler and his "companion" in The Happiness of the Katakuris

[hectorberlioz]

Quint in JAWS I can't really think of anymore that weren't already mentioned
oh yeah! whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[Millane]

Preist Vallon, Bill the Butcher and Monk Eastman - GoNY
William Wallace - Braveheart
Murron - Braveheart (poor wench:( she was so cool)
Frank - 28 Days Later
Boromir - Fellowship
hahahahhaa how could all you people be saddened by Jacks death, 1. he wasnt a good character 2. wow he froze 3. Kate winslet is attractive....

EDIT: i nearly forgot Nig Heke, he is definately up there:eek: im horrified at myself

[Anglorfin]

Can we extend this to TV series? I got a few goods ones for that lined up already.

[Draken]

Originally posted by Khamûl
To be perfectly honest, I laughed. Rose says "I'll never let go Jack" moments before she lets go. It just struck me funny. Granted, it might have been a bit sad if I would have actually watched the entire movie...

By that time I was distracted with worry about what happened to the iceberg

The Leon character in 'Leon' was sad. Still, I loved how the last thing he does is hand something to the Gary Oldman character and it's a grenade pin. KABOOM!

[Beor]

Billy's death in Predator

William DaFoe in Platoon

I guess thats it.

By the way, these are my favorite death scenes, not the ones that get me all sad inside.
:D

[b.banner]

Obi-won-Kinobe---Star Wars (although he sort of hung around for a couple of more movies yes that is one of the worst ones how could he die :( he was such a good jedi! i cried in the pianist a lot at the end when the nazi is in prison camp . and when the pianist is cold and trying to open that jar . those are not death scenes but they are still sad here is my list william walllace gladiator boromir qui-gonn how could anybody forget him he was so awsome :( :D .

[Anglorfin]

Ripley in the Aliens saga.

[Lady Tinuveil]

Spider's mother in 'Spider'
another great Ralph Fiennes preformance...

[Katt_knome_hobbit]

Weyoun 6 in DS9

Love it.

Chistopher Guest in "The Princess Bride"

[Lady Tinuveil]

Bruce Willis in 12 Monkies.

[Katt_knome_hobbit]

Originally posted by zinnite
The Sumo wrestler and his "companion" in The Happiness of the Katakuris

I LOVE THAT MOVIE!!!

Oooh oooh oooooooo!

In Galaxy Quest:

Right before he activates the Omega 13 where everyone is getting shot and killed except Guy Fleegman.

Geneouso.

I also liked Haldir's death.

I didn't like Boromir's death cuz it was too long before he stopped going.

[zinnite]

Tyler Durden in Fight Club. "What's that smell?"

[Silme*Christian]

The dude from Last of the Mohicans (The full-son, not the half-son) When he tried to save his love but died doing so. Then his love killed herself by jumping off a cliff edge! That indian guy who died trying to save his love was the only cute guy in the movie!

[Lady Tinuveil]

Originally posted by zinnite
Tyler Durden in Fight Club. "What's that smell?"

HaHa, did you see his smoke? That is one of the best scenes. I love the ending.

[Lady Tinuveil]

Also: Anne Lively in Minority Report.

[Millane]

Originally posted by Silme*Christian
The dude from Last of the Mohicans (The full-son, not the half-son) When he tried to save his love but died doing so. Then his love killed herself by jumping off a cliff edge! That indian guy who died trying to save his love was the only cute guy in the movie! **** yeah:D i forgot Uncas aswell:eek: his death was awesome, Magua was a sick character but when he killed Uncas he deserved death... Maguas death was cool aswell, Chingachgook nails him good:D Uncas's chick is so hot and i just love all the acting in it, i could go on and on about this movie;)

[b.banner]

Also: Anne Lively in Minority Report. that was always scary for me :eek: :D

[Silme*Christian]

**** yeah i forgot Uncas aswell his death was awesome, Magua was a sick character but when he killed Uncas he deserved death... Maguas death was cool aswell, Chingachgook nails him good Uncas's chick is so hot and i just love all the acting in it, i could go on and on about this movie

Wow, I can't remeber the names if my life depended on it! I like that movie, but my friends don't because "all the cute guys die" and one of my friends had such a crush on Uncas that when she found out that he loved the blonde "chick" she flipped out! And when she was about to comit cuiside she yelled at the TV "That's right b****, you just die because you are a b****, and lay of my man, your the one who killed him in the first place you b****!" We all looked at her as if she was insane.

[Rosie Gamgee]

How about Samuel on Legends of the Fall? It freaks me out a bit what Brad Pitt does afterward, but I do like (gee, this is gonna sound morbid) that he's literally choking on his own blood. It's so well done, too, when Brad Pitt is running up, and you know he's not gonna reach his little brother on time. It's quite heartbreaking.
p.s. the rest of the movie is dumb.

The Terminator - Terminator 2 Kinda sad in a different way.

Oh, and Esparanza (spl?) on The Mask of Zorro. Quite a touching scene, even though she did have a little part.

Back to Jack Dawson... I can't remember if I cried (.. when I read about his widowed bride.. :p) when I watched that part. It's definately sad, but I already knew he was gonna die, cuz a friend told me. I don't think the "I'll never let go, Jack" is a dumb line. He told her never to let go of her promise to survive. She had to let him go to hold onto her promise. I like the Irish guy's death scene, though. He was such a cool guy, and then to just be shot over something that wasn't even his fault... so sad.

[Lady Tinuveil]

How about Tom on the Shawshank Redemption? I think that was his name.
Very good & clever film.

I always liked legend of the fall,
A lot of good preformances.

[zinnite]

Ah, Shawshank, one of my favorites. Jake's death was really moving... "Jake was here." Then later, "So was Red." I love it.

[Lady Tinuveil]

I just watched it & they called him 'Brooks', very touching.
So was Red, before he goes to california.

[hectorberlioz]

awww:(
shawshank remeption is one of the saddest movies.
good thing it ended happy though.

[zinnite]

Originally posted by Lady Tinuveil
I just watched it & they called him 'Brooks', very touching.
So was Red, before he goes to california.
Yeah, I'm completely stupid. Brooks' pet bird was named Jake. It's been a long day :)

[Silme*Christian]

Sean Bean's and Ian McKellen's death in Lord of the Rings.

[Rosie Gamgee]

Beau Geste in Beau Geste (1939). How terribly sad. The Viking's Funeral is so cool! The dog at his feet and the Last Post and everything. Touching!

[Katt_knome_hobbit]

I have forgotten, is this supposed to be mourning your favorite charactor because they died?

Or is it supposed to be complementing the acting/film work of a death scene which you think is excelent?

I always went for option two. People die who deserve it for plot reasons. And plot reasons should be a good enough excuse for everybody.

[Pirate]

I cried harder then I ever have during a movie when Tristien's little brother dies during Ledgends of the Falls. It was so sad becuase Tristen tried so hard and he couldn't make it! :( . I cried in Titanic too and I still do when I see it (yeah i'm a wuss) . And I also cried the first time I saw Romeo and Juliet.
Tyler Durden's death in fight club. Tyler is my favorite Charater in any movie of book I've ever seen and though I didn't cry, i was pretty sad. Oh, that was such a great movie! Possibly my faovrite

[Falagar]

Mufasa in Lion King. Can't believe no-one's mentioned him. ;)

[Finrod Felagund]

Boromir in LotR

Theoden in LotR

Simon Birch

The old guy from Shawshank,

Harrison Ford in Mosquito Coast (not a great movie, but sad)

and iof Course, Maximus in Gladiator, and his son getting run down by those horses *shudder*

most of these have been mentioned

[Captain Stern]

What a good topic!

I don't think anything beat's William Wallace's death in Braveheart.

[Lalaith_Elf]

Originally posted by Falagar
Mufasa in Lion King. Can't believe no-one's mentioned him. ;)

thats so sad *wipes away a tear*

and so's wallaces in braveheart.... i love it

[The Gaffer]

Lots of great ones on this list.

I would add Frank in Blue Velvet.

One that made me laugh was Cyrus the Virus in Con Air.

[Pirate]

The old guy from Shawshank Ah, yes, that sad. I really did like that old guy too :(

[azalea]

One of the most moving of all time: Spencer Tracy in Captain's Courageous. Rent it today if you haven't seen it.:)
Jean Valjean in Les Miserable
Doc Holliday in Tombstone
Debra Winger in Terms of Endearment
Jobie in Sometimes a Great Notion (cringe)
Thorin in The Hobbit
Charlotte in Charlotte's Web
(so what if the last two are just cartoons!:p )

[Lalaith_Elf]

Originally posted by azalea
One of the most moving of all time: Spencer Tracy in Captain's Courageous. Rent it today if you haven't seen it.:)
Jean Valjean in Les Miserable
Doc Holliday in Tombstone
Debra Winger in Terms of Endearment
Jobie in Sometimes a Great Notion (cringe)
Thorin in The Hobbit
Charlotte in Charlotte's Web
(so what if the last two are just cartoons!:p )

Have you ever seen the hobbit preformed on stage??? They do Thorin's death brilliantly.... it made me want to cry.

[cassiopeia]

Haldir's death in TTT movie. :D

Seriously, the deaths that affected me the most were in The Great Escape, when the POW's were killed in the field after being let out of the truck. It was such a shock when I first watched it, and it never fails to move me to tears.

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Originally posted by Cassiopeia
Seriously, the deaths that affected me the most were in The Great Escape, when the POW's were killed in the field after being let out of the truck. It was such a shock when I first watched it, and it never fails to move me to tears.
________________________________
That movie was apparently quite accurate historically, and that particular scene did indeed happen, making it all the more tragic.

P.S. What did you think of James Coburn's Australian accent?

[cassiopeia]

I read the book by Paul Brickhill, and most of it's true. Except for Steve McQueen's character, if I remember correctly. It is my opinion nobody can do an Australian accent properly unless they are Australian. :D James Coburn died recently, didn't he? And Charles Bronson. :(

[Beruthiel's cat]

Mufasa in Lion King. Can't believe no-one's mentioned him.

My absolute favorite Disney movie of all time. I also cry like a baby at the begining and the end during the "Circle of Life" sequences.

I also cry at the end of "Field of Dreams" when Kevin Costner sees his father again and his father goes off into the field with James Earl Jones. I love that movie!

And I really cry at the end of Doctor Zhivago when Zhivago dies of a heart attack on the street after seeing Lara pass by the streetcar he is riding and she doesn't see him. **Waaaahhh!**

The scene that got me in "Titanic" was when Rose died and returned to the ship to be with Jack and all the people who had died before her, not when Jack died.

[Lalaith_Elf]

One of the saddest death scenes was in the TV version of Anne Frank's Diary. It was just so sad. Shows how traumatising it was in those death camps.:(

[Rosie Gamgee]

Oh yeah! Mufasa! Poor guy. When I watched that the first time in theaters I totally embarrassed myself by crying my eyes out. Poor little Simba. Very sad indeed.

How about Danny in Pearl Harbor. Dolittle's Raid isn't quite accurate, I've heard, but his death is soooo devastating. I mean, he was the sweet guy- why couldn't Rafford get the bullets? Rafe's 'death' is kind of sad too. What gets me in that movie everytime I watch it, though, is thinking of all those poor guys trapped inside the ships as they sunk. How terrifing to be sunk alive, with no way of getting out. Very sad to think about.

Mel Gibson's wife on 'Signs'. Sad. Poor guy hardly even got to say goodbye. Later when his son almost dies is a really dramatic bit. Him clutching his son and Merril trying to say that he thinks he's dead, and poor little Bo looking worried and confused... heartwrenching. Especially when he says "Dad?" and it's like everything just melts away and you're soooo happy he didn't really die.

Beth in Little Women. No matter how many times I watch that potentially boring movie, I sob at the part where Beth dies. It's so beautiful for her to just go when no one's watching, without any of that movie-ish 'please don't leave me' stuff.

[azalea]

Originally posted by Lalaith_Elf
Have you ever seen the hobbit preformed on stage??? They do Thorin's death brilliantly.... it made me want to cry.

I've never seen that, but it sounds great.

Another great death scene I can't believe I forgot:
Rocky Dennis in Mask. That is such a touching scene when she finds him, and all the more sad because it is a true story.

Also, Luke in Cool Hand Luke.:(

[jellyfishannah]

Ah, there are so many good ones mentioned on here. Has anyone said Bjork's character (forget the name) in Dancer in the Dark? (or is it Dancing in the Dark? Ack! I am so scatter-brained!:rolleyes::p) The movie was not that great but it was so sad! And that one scene tore me up. :( I'm going to cry now....*runs from thread sobbing*

[Ella Nyneve]

l agree about Haldir! Poor thing! But what about Beast's 'death & transfiguration' scene in Beauty & The Beast ? Why hasn't anyone said that one yet? There's also Denethor's death scene (Which I only listed because I like it). But probably my favorite death scene of a character would be in Jekyll & Hyde, the Broadway version. It's Lucy's death scene. We're currently working on that in my high school & I'm on pit choir.:D

[Katt_knome_hobbit]

Welcome Ella Nyneve if you are a newbie. You could just be an oldie who's account died.
I think we should list good death scenes even if we didn't like the charactors so much. That's what I was doing.

[Ella Nyneve]

Thank you! I am a newbie. Theoden's death scene is really good, as is Gollum's (YAY!). I'm not sure if this could be considered a death scene, but what about Sauron's (When Barad-Dur falls)? There's also Sydney Carton's in A Tale Of Two Cities (That should count, since I was in a play of that), and Rasputin's death scene in Anastasia. That's all I can think of that haven't been mentioned.

[Rosie Gamgee]

How about Frank Miller in High Noon? We hardly know the guy, but his death is signifigant, and touching the way Amy makes him drop his guard so that Kane can kill him, even though she's supposedly against violence.

[azalea]

:eek: How about Lenny in Of Mice and Men?:(

[Twista]

Originally posted by azalea
:eek: How about Lenny in Of Mice and Men?:(

Yes that is a very sad death, expecially getting killed by his best, an only friend, George. But you can see it had to be done dnt you Azelea?


> However, my favourite would be when Doc dies in Back to the Future part 1, and the same again happens in Part 3, but he lives because hes wearing the bullit proof thingy. :)

[azalea]

I personally wouldn't say it HAD to be done, but I do of course see WHY he did it. It's a situation I'd never want to be put in, having to make the choice of whether or not to do it. What great writing.:)

[Katt_knome_hobbit]

I was just re-watching a bunch of Star Trek episodes, and they do really good death scenes.

Such as:

Chaotica in that weird episode with the photonic aliens in the holodeck.

[Gulio, Strength of Many]

Jasmine the lady - Secondhand Lions (So sad.)

Jasmine the lion - Seconhand Lions (Even sadder.)

Theoden - RotK (I cried.)

Grandpa Gee - Extreme Days (Not the saddest, but still uncool.)

Jesus - Passion of the Christ (Bittersweet.)

[Dreran the Green]

Gandalf in FotR...uh......if that counts.....

Obi Wan in Star Wars

Yoda in Star Wars

and saddest mass murder, the native americans at Wounded Knee in Hidalgo.

[Rosie Gamgee]

Oh, yeah! Very sad indeed, especially because he was the one who carried the order, and he didn't even know it. So sad.

[Ragnarok]

William Wallace in Braveheart.

[Katt_knome_hobbit]

One of my favorite death scenes is Count Rugen in the Princess Bride (ie. the six fingered man, ie. Christopher Guest)

I am so happy! I got to play Count Rugen in a play version of the movie, and my death was SOO COOL!!!

Ah, death.

[Ella Nyneve]

I forget, but have Romeo and Juliet been mentioned yet? But here's another cool one: Bernardo and Riff's death scenes in West Side Story!