Characters in Movies that died ON YOU... Noooooooooooooooo!

[DannyWilliams]

I was watching "Bridge To Terabitha" on DVD and the character played by AnnaSophia Robb died! was like WHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!?
That took me by suprise and I really felt the loss JESS was feeling when he was told the news and did not want to believe that Lesile was gone.





Sooo then what movie death took you by suprise?

[helen]

I guess Obi-Wan's death in Star Wars was a shock.

Another one is in the movie Final Destination. I don't know the character's name or the actress that played her but I think she was the girl friend of the guy who was the main character's rival. In the movie everyone's death but hers showed what minor things happen to them before they died. Her's was sudden. One moment she was talking and the next, hit by a bus.

[DiverDown808]

That black guy in the movie Night Of The Living Dead.

He was the main hero through the whole movie, then in the final minutes of the movie....bang.

One movie that REALLY shocked me was the movie Boy's Don't Cry. Hilary Swank played the main character, and her death was completely shocking.

Wow, I wonder if this whole thread should be a spoiler.......

:D

[Random]

Wash (played by Alan Tudyk) on Serenity.

[Composite 2992]

Michael Caine in "Play Dirty".

Peter O'Toole in "Murphy's War".

The first Darren in "Bewitched".

[DannyWilliams]

The first Darren in "Bewitched".





ummmmm thats TV but yeah I liked Darren #1 waaaaaaay better versus #2
I was saddend to hear of his passing plus learing that he did not recover from his injuries that permanently sidelined him from the show...

The reason WHY I put spoiler tags on Bridge To Terabitha?
Its a fairly recent title on DVD........

[mel]

"The Well Manicured Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-Manicured_Man)" in the TV series The X Files met his sudden death in the one and only X Files movie (1998).

[Pua'i Mana'o]

The elderly black dude in The Shining. I didn't understand why all of that character development and trekking across the country only to eat it as soon as he got into the hotel.

[Composite 2992]

The elderly black dude in The Shining. I didn't understand why all of that character development and trekking across the country only to eat it as soon as he got into the hotel.

In the book version he lived.

[DannyWilliams]

In the book version he lived.


Maybe Kubrick skipped that segment in the book

[zff]

Leonardo DiCaprio's character in The Departed.

[mel]

At the time of its release in 1982, the death of Mr. Spock in the movie "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" was a big deal, even though the ending left it open that he'd be resurrected. And he was in the next release, "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock." On the special edition DVD of Star Trek II, the original ending would have been a final end to Mr. Spock. However when the movie was sent out to a test audience before general release, the people left the theater in such a gloomy state that the ending was extended to include the shot of Spock's coffin on the Genesis planet and his voice closing the movie with the familiar "space the final frontier...." prose.

And while not surprising, several years later on "Star Trek Generations" the producers killed off Captain Kirk. And Data died in the last Star Trek NG movie, "Nemesis".

[helen]

I forgot about Star Trek 3, the death of David Marcus was kind of unexpected compared to rumored demise of Mr. Spock in Star Trek 2 and the previewed destruction of the Enterprise in Star Trek 3.

[oceanpacific]

The "Darren Stephens" character in BEWITCHED didn't die. Dick York left the series for health reasons and his role was taken over by Dick Sargent.

THE DIRTY DOZEN - all except the Charles Bronson character, Major Reisman (Lee Marvin), and the warrant officer.

TALE OF TWO CITIES - Sidney Carton went to the guillotine in place of Charles Darnay.

JAWS - "Quint" gets eaten. In the book, "Hooper" (Richard Dreyfuss character) is also killed by the shark.

[DannyWilliams]

Leonardo DiCaprio's character in The Departed.



Yeah that got me mad for sure! :mad:


But at least..... A certain character got theirs at the end

[TATTRAT]

Dexzel Washington in Man on Fire.

...that was the only one I could think of.

[sinjin]

William Peterson's character "Chance" in "To Live and Die in LA".

[jdub]

Leonardo DiCaprio's character in The Departed.
That one blew me away. At first I was disappointed, but after a while the realization sunk in that the plot twist made for a much more impact-ful film.

[DannyWilliams]

William Peterson's character "Chance" in "To Live and Die in LA".


In the deleted scenes of "L.A." Peterson did live somehow and is seen at the end of the film.

[DannyWilliams]

The "Darren Stephens" character in BEWITCHED didn't die. Dick York left the series for health reasons and his role was taken over by Dick Sargent.



York did not leave the series at first....
Injuries from a side movie role he was doing took a toll on his ability to keep up playing the role on TV. He eventually bowed out in 1969.....

As the line Will Ferrell said in the movie version.........THERE WERE TWO DARRINS AND NOBODY NOTICED!!!!!

[Linkmeister]

Frank Sinatra's character Ryan in "Von Ryan's Express." That was devastating.

[GeckoGeek]

Well drat. I can't remember the movie name or actor's names. The movie was about a pair of relationships. A single makeup artist with a little girl meets up with a single undertaker with a little boy. At some point the boy goes to find something the girl lost and runs into a bee's nest. The boy is "allergic to everything".

At least that's the way I remember it. I might be confusing two movies.

[DannyWilliams]

Well drat. I can't remember the movie name or actor's names. The movie was about a pair of relationships. A single makeup artist with a little girl meets up with a single undertaker with a little boy. At some point the boy goes to find something the girl lost and runs into a bee's nest. The boy is "allergic to everything".

At least that's the way I remember it. I might be confusing two movies.



Sounds like you are describing this movie....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102492/

[kool_kat]

Well drat. I can't remember the movie name or actor's names. The movie was about a pair of relationships. A single makeup artist with a little girl meets up with a single undertaker with a little boy. At some point the boy goes to find something the girl lost and runs into a bee's nest. The boy is "allergic to everything".

At least that's the way I remember it. I might be confusing two movies.

Yep that is My Girl - I used to love that movie.

Another one for me was A Walk to Remember when the girl dies from cancer. Obviously, by the time she died you knew it was coming, but when I was shocked with the twist she had incurable cancer. (It's the movie with Mandy Moore & Shane West)

[TATTRAT]

The Professional. Loved that one too, event though the main dude died.

[GeckoGeek]

Sounds like you are describing this movie....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102492/


Yup! Went with a friend to see it at the theater. Almost as bad as seeing "Bridge To Terabitha" on the airplane.

[Pua'i Mana'o]

York did not leave the series at first....
Injuries from a side movie role he was doing took a toll on his ability to keep up playing the role on TV. He eventually bowed out in 1969.....

As the line Will Ferrell said in the movie version.........THERE WERE TWO DARRINS AND NOBODY NOTICED!!!!!

oO(do I start the "characters who shoulda been played by somebody else like Jim Carrey not Will Ferrell... NOOOOOOOooooooo" thread)

[PoiBoy]

Mufasa in The Lion King. I didn't expect that in disney movie.

[Leo Lakio]

I didn't expect that in disney movie.You musta missed "Old Yeller" and "Bambi," then.

[cezanne]

-Vincent Vega (John Travolta) in Pulp Fiction
-Meg Ryan's character in City of Angels

[Lei K]

Denzel Washington in Fallen. I was like nooooooooooooo, I totally fell for the surprise ending. :o "Let me tell you a story about the day I ALMOST died." Pfttth!

[DannyWilliams]

-Vincent Vega (John Travolta) in Pulp Fiction
-Meg Ryan's character in City of Angels


Travolta's character was a inthoughtyadied already as seen in PF..... I do remember that he reappears again later.
As for "COA" in reference to Meg Ryan's character I wanted to break something. :mad:

[Menehune Man]

Gandalf the grey. Wot! He can't die, they need him. Of course he returned as Gandalf the white and was better than ever!
http://www.gameweb.gr/lordoftherings/photos/images/gandalf.jpg

A quote...
Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the ring in which case you also were meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.

[oceanpacific]

This was on cable this morning. The Elvis Presley character n his first movie, LOVE ME TENDER (1956). His most substantial movie, compared with the lightweight fluff over the rest of his Hollywood career.

[zff]

Gwyneth Paltrow's character in Se7en.

[StephS]

Wash (played by Alan Tudyk) on Serenity.

I wanted to kick Joss Whedon's butt when Wash was killed off like that.

[Random]

I wanted to kick Joss Whedon's butt when Wash was killed off like that.
That's Joss's style, ever since he helmed Buffy.

I thought the death would end with Book, but his death wasn't that much of a shock value.

[helen]

Was watching The Green Berets (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063035/) tonight and it dawned on me the Jim Hutton character kind of had a senseless death at the end of the movie.

[alohabear]

In the Sixth Sense when we find out Bruce Willis was really dead, that blew me away.

[scrivener]

In all my years of movie-watching, only once has a movie ever died on me. It was at the Cannery, and at the urging of a couple of close friends, I saw Terrence Malick's The New World. About an hour into it, the film broke or melted or...something. We were given refunds AND passes for future movies. I still haven't seen the rest of it.

[timkona]

Steven Segal in that movie about the hijacked airplane rescued by the guys going up through a tube from a stealth fighter flying under the jet. The one with Kurt Russel and John Leguizamo.

[Leo Lakio]

Steven Segal in that movie about the hijacked airplane rescued by the guys going up through a tube from a stealth fighter flying under the jet. The one with Kurt Russel and John Leguizamo."Executive Decision"

[Walkoff Balk]

One movie that REALLY shocked me was the movie Boy's Don't Cry. Hilary Swank played the main character, and her death was completely shocking.

Wow, I wonder if this whole thread should be a spoiler.......

:D
Another Hillary Swank movie where she died was in Million Dollar Baby.
How about those freeze frame endings such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid or Thelma & Louise? Not a movie, but the viewer has to make their own ending of what happens to Tony Soprano.

[zff]

Has anyone ever noticed this....?

If a love story is a primary plot element and the main character and his/her love interest has not had sex, both will make it to the end of the movie. That's not to say that if they do consummate, they'll die, but restraint will guarantee they'll be around for the closing credits.

In Titanic, When Jack and Rose got busy in the back of that car, I kept thinking "Well now you've done it, Jack. We already know Rose survives."

In "The Last Samurai", when Algren was being mowed down by a Gatling gun, I leaned over to my wife and assured her he was going to survive.

It seems Hollywood finds it too cruel to kill off a love story if they haven't had a chance to consummate. Can anyone think of a movie where a love story is a primary plot element and this hasn't been true?

[drumorgan]

The guy wearing the red shirt in Star Trek who died was a shock.

[Honoruru]

The Samuel L. Jackson character in "Deep Blue Sea." He was one of the main characters, and seemed to have a lot of history behind him. So it was somewhat of a shock when he was devoured in one gulp by the shark less than half-way into the movie.

[Random]

The guy wearing the red shirt in Star Trek who died was a shock.
Actually, the guy wasn't wearing red. Peter Preston died while wearing engineering white in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He just so happens to be Scotty's nephew.

[Walkoff Balk]

Tom Hanks dying in Saving Private Ryan was hard to watch.
Same movie, different endings showed the difference between American films and European films. The Vanishing had two different endings in the American version and the Dutch version.

[Vanguard]

Qui Gon Jinn in Star Wars Episode 1

Kikuchiyo, Heihachi, and Kyuzo in Seven Samurai

[buzz1941]

In the deleted scenes of "L.A." Peterson did live somehow and is seen at the end of the film.

Getting shotgunned in the face didn't do him in?

[timkona]

No doubt Qui Gon was a shock. Star Wars rules.

[drumorgan]

Actually, the guy wasn't wearing red. Peter Preston died while wearing engineering white in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He just so happens to be Scotty's nephew.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirt_(character)

[TATTRAT]

Baron Münchhausen...but then he was back, so it was all good:)

[Ron Whitfield]

Old Yeller

[Walkoff Balk]

Not in the movies example, but where the three main characters died at the end of a tv series. The Lone Gunmen had their three main cast members die as they died heroically saving the world as conspiracy investigators. That series was produced by the makers of The X-Files.
This show had an episode about an airplane flying towards the twin towers before 9-11 happened in real life.

[Walkoff Balk]

Old Yeller
It's hard to watch too when an innocent little girl or boy character dies. Even though the plot in Bridge to Tiribithia was in fantasy, the best friend girl classmate of the main character dies during the real life setting of the movie. I thought they wouldn't kill off kid characters after Macauley Culkin died in My Girl.