Filmdom's Best Death Scenes

Did anybody come up with a link to this "list"?

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Letty wrote:

Wow! Kuvasz. Welcome back.

thank you. it is an honor.

and as one who cares, my Kodi has recovered a bit. according to the vets, she might have had a mild stroke in january and with meds and lottsa' hugs she is now sleeping by my side.

sooooooo... deaths (or near ones) that matter on film?

doggone, how about old yeller's and lassie's?

light wizard might bear this one out. how many film makers does he know who would willingly kill a dog on screen?

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It's a subscription magazine, Equus. It will likely be available next month in archives?

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I can't think of any films where a dog's death is surreptitiously
thrown into a storyline. The two you've mentioned are unadultrated tear jerkers.

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This is a link to Total Film where the poll and essay was published:

http://www.futurenet.com/totalfilm/

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Tearjerkers for me:
Annie's deathbed scene in "Imitation of Life"
Martin Landau's deathbed scene in "The Majestic"

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Landau all but save "The Majestic" from mediocrity -- his death scene in "Ed Wood" (not to mention the agony leading up to it) was superb.

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Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights <sigh>

Viva Zapata - Marlon Brando in the square riddled with bullets

Dancer in the Dark - the hanging scene

Gallipoli - the horrifying frozen image of the young soldier going over the hill to meet his death

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Oh, speaking of dog deaths- the final scene in "The Plague Dogs", animated film about dogs that have escaped from a lab where they've been used to test plague. The two dogs, hunted by the humans and with no place to go, swim out into the sea. The older dog tells the young one that 'home' is just ahead- "just keep swimming...."

My girlfriend never cried harder than at that film.

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Did anybody mention Darth Vader?

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2 more good movie death scene
Maria Falconetti as Joan in "The Passion of Joan of Arc," delivers a fabulous, although gut-wrenching death. Also, the death of Roberto Begnini's character in "Life is Beautiful," is so sudden and sad that, although we don't actually see it, it is still very powerful.

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Eddie Robinson in Soylent Green.

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The Elephant Man - When he stretched out and went to sleep. Touching.

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Listen,you're all wrong. Nothing beats Witt's death in The Thin Red Line when he tries to raise his rifle against all the Japanese surrounding him.

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I liked 'The Majestic." It was simple and clean.

When the little brother in "Legends of the Fall" was trapped in the barb wire and blinded by the nerve gas, the sweet smile on his face when he heard his brother call out to him, just before being killing, was heartwrenching.

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How about the "stoning scene" in "Life of Brian"?

Another one I really like is the "harmonica scene" in "Once Upon a Time in the West". Here's a picture:

http://www.cyberkino.de/entertainment/kino/1005/100579b1.jpg

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Custer in Little Big Man.

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James Caan in The Godfather

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Certainly a plethora of death scenes in the three Godfather films. And speaking of literally gut wrenching, the torture and execution of William Wallace in Mel Gibson's "Braveheart." Okay, a little over-the-top but he certainly made it anti-climactic with Christ's nearly two hour death scene in "Passion."

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Seeing the death scene in "Braveheart" kinda gives you a clue where "Passion" came from.

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