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Iconic/Memorable Screen Deaths

keefg · 2008-01-17 21:53:48

After watching Alien last night and the brilliant chest bursting scene where poor old John Hurt meets his maker....it got me thinking, this must be one of if not the most iconic screen deaths. Anyone think of any others? Or anything to top the Alien scene?

17-01-2008 9:53pm

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keefg

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After watching Alien last night and the brilliant chest bursting scene where poor old John Hurt meets his maker....it got me thinking, this must be one of if not the most iconic screen deaths.

Anyone think of any others? Or anything to top the Alien scene?

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#2 17-01-2008 9:55pm

Jack Sheehan

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Peter Weller in Robocop. Technically it was a death!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8aQy1VqS6Y

At 1:08

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#3 17-01-2008 10:08pm

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Enter the Ninja

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EvPvfVOUV8

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#4 17-01-2008 10:11pm

kraggy

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When Jon Voight dies in The Champ.

No contest.

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#5 17-01-2008 10:17pm

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Shaw getting chomped on the boat in Jaws.

Kong falling from the Empire State building in the original King Kong.

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#6 17-01-2008 10:20pm

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The Final scene of sam Peckinpahs " The Wild Bunch" when the shootout just goes ballistic and theres lumps coming of them .

Robert Shaw being chomped in 2 in Jaws .

That scene in the Omen when the flying pane of glass takes the photographers dome off in slow motion .

The Dublin pub scene in Fistful of Dynamite when James Coburn shoots his freind right in the head with a rolled up Evening Herald

The Belfast efficiency scene in Michael Collins

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#7 17-01-2008 10:21pm

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The ending of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid.

The mention of The Wild Bunch ending brought it to mind.

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#8 17-01-2008 10:29pm

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Death of a Replicant....

Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner!

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#9 17-01-2008 10:30pm

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There can be only one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueuauKKjPZI

Mike.

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#10 17-01-2008 10:51pm

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About 75% of movies that Sean Bean has ever been in

He went through a stage where every character he played died and each was bloodier than the rest

It was the only reason to watch most of his movies

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#11 17-01-2008 10:56pm

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Rhodes in Day of the Dead comes to mind pretty much instantly. After seeing someone getting torn apart by zombies and their intestines pulled out and eaten, it's not something you'll forget.

Also Paul Allen getting the axe (heh) in american Psycho.

Also Sean connery in The Untouchables and Michael Ironside in Scanners are pretty memorable.

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#12 17-01-2008 10:58pm

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNbYdNDKqro&feature=related

hard to top that one

except mebbe the part in Darby OGill and the little people and the headless horseman takes Darby away . Which means he died , technically .

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#13 17-01-2008 11:15pm

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John Coffey's execution in 'The Green Mile'

And 'Wilson' floating away in 'Cast Away'.....it was a ball.......but come on, it was sad!!

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#14 17-01-2008 11:30pm

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Theres that really fummy one where the lazers are like the lines of a maths copy in resident evil and they cut your man into little squares............ = silly

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#15 17-01-2008 11:36pm

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the lost boys - death by stero!

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#16 18-01-2008 12:35am

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Again, this one isn't going to end up anywhere, except pointlessly listing off of deaths. Charter.

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