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[skinhead]

You've seen 'em drop like flies all your viewing life, but which ones made you sit back and say "wow, that's realism"? IMHO, nothing tops the Coens' The Man Who Wasn't There, starring B. Bob Thornton. When he sticks the guy from The Sopranos in the side of the neck with a ballpoint pen, and all you hear are the splatters of blood drops and his gutteral efforts to draw breath until he kneels, folds and then expires without a sound, I really felt the struggle within him to live. Great contemporary film noir. That's the most believable and protracted death scene for me, although I'll always have a soft spot for Pris' (daryl Hannah) freaky demise in Bladerunner.

I'd give a 4 out of 5 for both the Mellish and Wade deaths in Saving Private Ryan too. Some great deaths in that one.

What's your favourite screen death?

[Alan_Partridge]

Alan Rickman's Sheriff of Nottingham's somewhat extended death scene was fantastic (he singlehandedly made that film bearable)

And how abot Guy Ritchie's career in Revolver? (a different kind of death but...)

[TheFonz]

Full Metal Jacket: Private Pile death scene. Man that looks real. Every death scene in that movie is pulled off in the best way possible.

Worst death scene:
Batman and Robin: Mr. Freeze dies. Arnold's last line. "Take two of these and call me in the morning" Man that movie blows.

My favorite Clint Eastwood line right before a death scene.

A group of robbers are robbing a Chinese restuarant. Dirty Harry says, " You forgot to read your fortune cookie...It says your shit out of luck"

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

Without a doubt:



Sparkles*_*

[re:cursive]

In my opinion one of the most meaningful on screen deaths is Zampano's murder of the Fool in Fellini's "La Strada".

[The Chewbacca Defense]

Passion of the Christ.......but kind of saw that coming!

[skinhead]

[Callan]

Major Kusanagi in the first Ghost in the Shell. I realize that isn't really a death scene as she doesn't really die, but a woman determined enough to rip her own arms off gets my vote.

[skinhead]

[Hapkido-In]

Unforgiven:

Little Bill: I don't deserve this... to die like this. I was building a house.

Willaim Munny: Deserve's got nothing to do with it.

Little Bill: I'll see you in Hell, William Munny!

William Munny: ...Yeah.

Point blank rifle shot. Damn.

[Ya-ta Boy]

No death scene is more satisfying than when Dorothy tosses that bucket of water on the Wicked Witch. That witch was a *itch and deserved it.

My other favorite death scene is when Billy the Kid shoots the old sherrif in "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid". Ol' Chill lays there in the street and his wife Katy Jurado, in all her faded beauty holds him while he dies. In the background is a glorious New Mexico sunset, and Dylan sings "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"--which he wrote for those two old actors. (Otherwise, the movie isn't much good.)

[Grotto]

Sean Connery in the "Untouchables"

Classic with a capita C!

[KittyLover]

That guys girlfriend in The Sopranos. You know the one that was going to talk to the Feds? Man, that kept replaying in my head for days.

[mishlert]

James Cann's character Sonny getting shot up at the toll booth in The Godfather.

[JMO]

Defoe's death in 'Shadow of a Vampire' is a favorite of mine. Although this is more for the sequence that led up to it than anything else. I was mesmerized. After all 'If it's not in the frame, it doesn't exist'.