Favorite Death Scene

John Cassevettes from The Fury
Not due to any emotional content, but the first time I said 'Oh, Shit!' at a special effect...

Brad Pitt-Meet Joe Black

In addition to my first choice which is Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black, I would have to say the flunkie in Thunderball. The one where Bond is lying on the beach with Domino and she sees the flunkie approaching with intent to kill and James, noticing her apprehension, spins around and shoots the harpoon in the guys chest and says...

"I think he got the point"

Priceless.

Linnea Quigley in Witch Trap. Naked in the shower, she takes a shower head in he throat. Made a REALLY big hole, I was impressed. It is more tasteful than it sounds, really.

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Look upon me, for I am the beast

The death of Darth Vader in 'Return of the Jedi' is my favorite death scene. Very classily done. Also equally classy was the death of Nuclear Man in 'Superman IV: The Quest for Peace'. Brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it. What a tearjerker!

Recently, BOTH of the death scenes in Run Lola Run. Previously, the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Melting flesh makes me hungry.

Hey Faust, that reminds me of Linnea Quigley's death scene in Silent Night, Deadly Night where she's impaled, while topless, on a pair of deer antlers mounted on a wall by the killer Santa Claus. Good ol eighties misogynist slasher fun!

Also, in the interests of equality, I always liked Crispin Glovers death scene in Friday the 13: The Final Chapter with the corksrew through the hand and the meat cleaver in the face. Ouch!

I hope I don't ruin the movie for you when I say, "Pitt dies in it."

John: You forgot to mention how after she gets the splinter in the eye, the zombie jerks her head and breaks the damn thing off in her eye socket

Darth: Lets not foreget Linnea's naked deaths in Return of the Living Dead, Creepazoids, and Pumpkinhead 2 (while she was straddling R.H. Milahoff [sp?] aka Leatherface). She is the reigning queen of the naked death

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Look upon me, for I am the beast

Gotta agree on Brad Pitt in "Meet Joe Black". I own the DVD for that scene alone



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De Niro in Heat is pretty cool.

"Told you I'm never goin' back..."

Matt

Jean Reno and Gary Oldman at the same time in The Professional......

Practically ANY scene with Death in it...oh, we're talking film, not Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman?

TV: John Sheridan's death in B5.
Londo's death in B5.


Film: Death by Shrubbery in Evil Dead.
Death by bus collision in Cemetary Man.
The Green Knight in Monty Python & The Holy Grail.
Boba Fett in...oh, wait... he's not dead.

Michael Corleone's death in Godfather III, and DeNiro's gunning down of the low-rent godfather in Godfather II.

Travolta buying it from the silenced machine gun in 'Pulp Fiction'...

Leon at the end of 'The Professional'...

And last but not least, one of the best and most suspenseful death scenes of all time...

Mr. Blond.

'Nuff said.

Oh, and 'Amadeus', composing his last symphony with F. Murray.

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"klaatu barata niktu"

Just thought I better resurrect this thread.... just cos' I could...

Anyways....

The yakuza boss in Gozu who gets impaled on the spatula wedged in his ass...

The captain from Event Horizon who rips out his own eyeballs.

Franks second death in Hellraiser.... "Jesus Wept"

Hans Gruber in Die Hard

Shaun's stepdad in Shaun of the Dead. For a movie that's supposed to be a comedy, it's actually quite touching.

Doc Ock in Spiderman 2.

The lady assassins complete mutilation of a Yagyu in Lone wolf and cub 2.

ROBOCOP:
Murphy getting the piss shot out of him by the gang of no-goods.
One of those very same no-goods getting smooshed by a car after being tainted by radioactive waste.

Big Trouble IN Little China:
The Elemental (earth?) who blows himself up in a puff of vegetables.

The Thing:
The dude on the operating theatre table whose chest collapses, and head removes itself.

That guy in Saving Private Ryan who gets shot in the helmet which saves him, removes the helmet in utter amazement, then gets shot in the head again and dies.

The Shark in the first Jaws.

John Lennons death in "Imagine". I honestly didnt see it coming.

Murphy in Robocop ya.

David Caruso getting both barrels in the face in King of New York.

All the kills in Miller's Crossing.

You guys have come up with some great ones so far.

Oh also, that guy flying head first into the coffee table in Lost Highway.

Slater shooting Oldman in the face in True Romance, and in the deleted scenes a dog getting shotgun'd by Oldman, man i wish they would have left that in the movie.

From the greatest Western ever, Lonesome Dove, the death of Augustus McCrae (played by Robert Duvall) is the best I've seen. The interplay between two longtime partners, Tommy Lee Jones and Duvall, is pure magic.

These two were good.

I have to add....

The photographer's decapitation in "The Omen", and father Brennan's death in the same movie.

Most farcical death scene:
Gerard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac: for christs sake DIE!

Most ridiculous:
Death by corn on the cob: Sleepwalkers (1992). Cornholed! Has to be seen to be believed.

I thought Boromirs death in FOTR was good. Sean Bean rocks, so I was sad when he died.

For some reason, at the end of Switchblade Sisters where the woman with the eyepatch gets knifed to death, I always found that scene disturbing, it's stayed with me ever since.

Fonda's death at the end of Once upon a time in the west.

I think I would vote for Denethor in ROTK
First you're set on fire,
Then you realize you are crazy,
Then you jump off a 1/2 mile high castle...still on fire...
THEN you land on an army of evil orcs with weapons and spikes and shit....

I love Salim Abu Aziz (Art Malick) on a missle, through a building, into a helicopter, in True Lies, aka "You're Fired"

Death by Tree Rape in Evil Dead

Ditto on Murphy in Robocop

Friday the 13th (i forget which one) Girl in Sleeping Bag slammed against a tree = Happy

executive decision.

some that spring to mind are ned's death in life aquatic, detective vincennes death in la confidential, ripley's death in alien 3, and of course, lance henrikson's death in hard target.

The Nazi's end in Raiders; Belloq, Toht and Dietrich melt before our eyes.

The Arab swordsman shooting as well.

The Thuggee getting hanged by the fan in Temple of Doom.

Emperor in Return of the Jedi.

Second John Travolta in Pulp Fiction.

- Al Pacino in Scarface.

- Yappet Kotto exploding in Live and Let Die; it's just hilarious seeing his obvious dummy double go exploding out of the water

- J.T. Walsh in Breakdown

- the orchestra of deaths in the climaxes of all three Godfathers

- the villain from The Dead Pool; forget his name since the movie it'self wasn't good but it was awesome when Clint harpoons the fucker to the wall.

It took over five years for someone to mention this one? For shame!

Kevin Spacey in L.A. Confidential

Joe Morton in Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Jack Nicholson in Batman

Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Al Pacino in Carlito's Way

More as I think of them...

Cyrus the Virus in Con Air.
Blonde girl in Final Destination catches a bus. "You can all DROP FUCKING DEAD!" *WHAM!*
I also love Brando's death scene in Godfather

How does Pitt buy it in Joe Black? I don't rightly recall.

Is this the one where Jean Claude van-Damme shoves a handgrenade in his pants?
Funny!

I forgot to mention:

Chris Kattan in Undercover Brother: falling from a helicopter from pretty high up. Then, just when you think "awe, he just falls off," a giant cgi shark jumps out of the water and swallows him whole.

Oh and speaking of shark deaths, what about the death of the shark that attached itself to Adam West's leg in Batman?

not mentioned

when Alice Monroe and Uncas fall of the cliff, helped by one of great scores of the 90's, then Mugua shortly after

actually Michael Mann has two more already mentioned Deniro and Cruise

not really a death scence but a prelude, the scence of Bella with the flower in Ed Wood

surprised Mufasa hasnt been mentioned, The Lion King

when Pesci gets its in Goodfellas, more becuse of DeNiros reaction

also not on screen but when Duvall in THX 1138 sees LUH 3417 on the new fetus

also Diana Rigg in OHMSS

My top three

#1 Jean Reno taking Oldman out in Leon

#2 Spock Wrath of Kahn

#3 Deniro in Heat

"Corn Nuts!"

Pesci in Casino, good christ was that brutal.

Bill McKinney in Outlaw Josey Wales mainly because of how it was built up.

William H Macy in Boogie Nights mainly because it was so sudden and the movie completely changed after that.

Chow Yun Fat at the end of The Killer.

Robert Prosky at the end of Thief, so glad to see that old bastard get it.

Clive Owen in The Bourne Identity "Look at what they make you give"

Bad Taste: The alien leader's gruesomely hilarious death at the hands of a chainsaw-wielding Derek (Peter Jackson). "Suck my spinning steel, shithead!!"

Forgot one:

The death of Conan's mother in Conan the Barbarian. That scene is just perfectly shot and edited.

I can't believe I didnt mention it, or did I?
I guess it was another thread but you are right, THIS is my #1!
What makes it so great?
First, the circumstance. His father just died, his mother was the only adult left in the village.
Second, the set up of Thulsa Doom's men looking on and the fact that Thulsa looked so friendly and forgiving as he holds Conan's father's sword, turning slowly... The (best ever) soundtrack swells in anticipation, and then slice!
Cut to the perfect angle shot of Conan holding his mother's dead hand as her head falls and her body follows, with Conan staring into his empty hand and then Conan's POV shot while Doom looks at how well constructed his father's sword is with irreverence towards the orphan he has just created.
Then the chanting choir filled soundtrack settles softly showing Conan's confusion and realization the he is alone and Thulsa is the reason for this. This murder plants the seed of revenge that will culminate in the similar execution of his pseudo-psycho-surrogate father.

I think the soundtrack adds more to this scene than any other factor, since there is no dialog. But yeah, this is my favorite scene ever. thanks for the reminder i guess i was looking at more funny deaths than dramatic deaths.

The death of 'The Tapeworm' in Irreversible; best fire extinguisher to frontal-lobe action ever put on celluloid...
And the appreciation factor rising ten-fold on watching the film a second time, and realising that the guy having his head reduced to pancake thinness wasn't 'The Tapeworm' in the first place.

-Uma Thurman scalping Lucy Lui in Kill Bill.
-The end of Tears Of The Sun when the Navy SEALs where getting killed
-The SWAT team in The Relic

Gary Oldman is State of Grace...
Very sad and Oldman falls great too.

Some damn fine choices here. I can't argue with MJB, because it's one of my faves, too. Same with Se7en. But my number one has got to be Bruce Dern shooting John Wayne in the back in front of young boys in "The Cowboys". Damn....that made me insane the first time I watched it.

You just don't shoot the Duke in the back. It's not done.

The fucker.

I got three off the top of my head:

1. Death of Timmons--Dances With Wolves You've got a great character set up as both comic relief as well as the World's Most Disgusting Human Being. He gets attacked by an angry Wes Studi in warpaint, and instead of pleading for his life, he begs his attackers not to hurt his mules. I don't know if it's because of the writing, or Robert Pastorelli's performance, or whatever, but the line gives me shivers every time I watch this scene.

2. Death of Malone--The Untouchables How do you win an Academy Award? Simple, you get the best lines in the script, and then give your character a great, operatic death. Also, you have to be Sean Connery, who is 500% more man than any of us mere mortals.

3. Death of Braz--The Core Delroy Lindo needs more love, and I'm embarassed to say that I enjoy this stupid movie. Still, I love the quiet dignity Lindo gives to his character as he meets his end.

Just thought of another one...

4. Death of Everybody--Glory Because this movie is better than you or me.

Steve Buscemi's heart attack in Big Lebowski. "Donny was a surfer...."

Johnny Depp in Dead Man. The longest agony in the history of cinema.