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Live Poll: Heroes Don't Always Die in Hero
Which of these non-heroics deaths of a good-doer or hero is your favorite?
Spoiler Ahead!!
List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls098121583/
Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/_Cnhaysu95g/
Suggestion needed!!!
Maxence_G
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Maxence_G
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I have made a ton of research, it seems to be very rare for a good-guy to die like a coward or in any stupid way. Usually, when heroes die, they die in sacrifice or by doing their best.
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dgranger
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It should be requirement - It has to be shown in the movie.
John Wayne, as Sgt. Stryker, gets shot in the back by a sniper’s bullet in “The Sands of IMO Jima” . The ending to the film, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_8BJ...
BTW, I agree with Siobhan (scary avatar), the title needs to be changed. FYC : Heroes Don’t Always Die a Hero’s Death
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A really good example from one of my all-time favorite movies - Lonely Are the Brave. Major spoiler ahead - at the very end of the movie after successfully outsmarting and outrunning a whole posse of lawmen, the fugitive hero's horse is spooked trying to cross the highway and they get hit by a truck.
Pulp Fiction - a bit of a stretch, because Vincent Vega is only an anti-hero at best, but he does die trying to take a bathroom break.
Into the Wild - Christopher McCandless, an idealistic but inexperienced wannabe survivalist, dies because of making a careless mistake (he ate a poisonous plant and starved).
No Country for Old Men - anti-hero (sort of) Llewelyn Moss is "shockingly killed offscreen by assassins" (ScreenRant)
Lawrence of Arabia - T.E. Lawrence dies in the prologue due to a motorcycle accident after speeding on a country roadway.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - not technically a "death", but when McMurphy is lobotomized it's a pretty bleak and unheroic end for him.
Silence (2016) - The main character, Rodrigues, who risked everything to find his mentor, facing religious persecution, eventually gives up and apostatizes (i.e. publicly renounces his faith). He dies of old age decades later, a shell of his former self.
The Dark Knight - Harvey Dent literally dies as a villain, so there's that.
Vanishing Point - spoiler alert! Kowalski commits suicide by driving straight into a police barricade at high speed.
Ran (1985) - the elderly warlord Hidetora, after being betrayed by his sons, succumbs to madness and runs off a cliff. (Similar to the death of Lord Denethor in The Return of the King).
Hamlet (there have been several movie adaptations) - Hamlet dies after having done far more harm than good in his attempts to avenge his father.
Some of these are a bit of a stretch, but I think some of them would be perfect for this list. I'll post more later if I think of any.
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MyCatDuffyTookMyLaptop
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While this video was dubbed into Spanish, it shows his death scene as coming quick and unexpected.
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dgranger
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“The Dirty Dozen” Take your pick! Probably Franco. He survives the mission only to get shot in the back.
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riverotter
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081237/mediaviewer/rm3777059840
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I will add https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120689/mediaviewer/rm2344753920 - "THE GREEN MILE"
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Donnie Darko (2001) is got to be one of the best deconstructions/reconstructions of heroic death ever. He goes to sleep, knowing he will be crushed to death by an aircraft engine from nowhere and yet he laughs at the irony of its all, literally at the face of death, knowing he saves the world he likes and people he loves. It's both spectecularly heroic moment and yet literally no one actually knows how much of sacrifice he made for them to live. Deeply symbolic, very thought-provoking, mesmerizing.
And then this. Man, I love this movie.
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Please correct these minor typos.
#7 Add a period.
Wyatt and Billy are randomly murdered by a couple of hillbillies
Wyatt and Billy are randomly murdered by a couple of hillbillies.
#11 Add punctuation.
Chris McCandless poisoned himself accidentally, he then starved
Chris McCandless poisoned himself accidentally; he then starved.
#14 Add a period.
Jon Snow is stabbed six times, but he got resurrected
Jon Snow is stabbed six times, but he got resurrected.
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I don't think it's a big deal but I'm wondering if something like "Which death was the most heartbreaking to you?" would be more precisely accurate? 'Just a thought. 'Great poll either way.
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