Your Favorite Death Scenes of All Time? |
| Published: June 29, 2008, 4:32 pm |
| Tags: a wild hare, armageddon, awildhare, boromir, bugs bunny, bugsbunny, gawker com, harold sakata, haroldsakata, its a mad mad mad mad world, itsamadmadmadmadworld, monty python and the holy grail, montypythonandtheholygrail, star trek ii the wrath of khan, startrekiithewr |
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Filed under: Fandom, Peter Jackson, James Bond, ListsIt's official: more actors need to die. Debra Winger figuratively kicking the bucket in Terms of Endearment, or Jimmy Durante literally kicking the bucket in It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World ... Harold Sakata reaching for his unfortunately uninsulated derby in Goldfinger, Bugs Bunny grabbing for Oscar gold after being mortally wounded by Elmer Fudd in Tex Avery's short "The Wild Hare" ("It's gettin' dark, Doc ... gasp, choke"). One of my favorites: James Mason making it until daybreak during an entire movie-long death scene in Odd Man Out, or the death by, eh, inspiration in Hot Fuzz. The list goes on at Gawker.com, where a poll got a lot of people talking. Male posters aired out plenty of excuses for crying in movie theaters like whipped little girls. One correspondent has a likely explanation for shedding his unmanly tears at the end of Armageddon: "a piece of meteorite got in my eye." I know how he felt. Ambient radiation made my [ Full article ] |
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