# Famous Last Words: Best Movie Death Scene **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591 "2003-03-11T16:47:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/61 "2003-03-12T17:28:22Z")
I agree with Rutger Hauer’s Speech in BladeRunner: " I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. (hmm) Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those… moments will be lost… in time, like tears… in rain. (long pause)Time to die. " Also Sonny Corleon in what has to be the angriest death ever: ARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH! but what really makes it is Vitos raction in the morgue "I want you to use all of your powers powers – and all your skills. I don’t want his mother to see him this way… (the Don uncovers the blanket, revealing Sonny’s mangled face) Look how they massacred my boy… " That always gets me! ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/62 "2003-03-12T17:56:28Z")
“Thank you ma’am, may I have another?” ~Mike in _House of Games_ (Joe Mantegna) ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/63 "2003-03-12T18:07:06Z")
“Earn this.” Tom Hanks in _Saving Private Ryan_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/64 "2003-03-12T18:25:46Z")
“Are we still going upstream, Mother?” Harrison Ford in _The Mosquito Coast_- the first movie I saw him in in which he wasn’t playing Indiana Solo. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/65 "2003-03-12T19:47:05Z")
True Romance “Your ancestors are decended from niggers. Yeah… hey… and, your great-great-great-great grandmother fucked a nigger… yeah… and she had a half-nigger kid. Now if that’s a fact… tell me… am I lying? 'Cause you… you’re part… eggplant” ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/66 "2003-03-12T20:08:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scr4 \* > “Daisy, daisy, give me your answer do…” (_2001_) Aw, man. Misquoting it _seriously_ ruins the point of that being his final line. It’s > [@](#): > > Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. > I’m half crazy … ---
**Author:** ![Avumede](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/avumede/32/7235_2.png) [@Avumede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avumede)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/67 "2003-03-12T20:26:15Z")
Well, actually it’s: > [@](#): > > Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. > I’m half crazy all for the love of you. > It won’t be a stylish marriage, > I can’t afford a carriage > (slower, slurred) but you’ll look sweet > upon the seat > (completely slurred) of a bicycle built for two I’ve seen it countless times. It really is the best death scene. The methodical and complete destruction of an intelligence, albeit an artificial one. Savage, precise, beautiful, and touching all at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/68 "2003-03-12T20:34:24Z")
Sorry, there was supposed to be a smiley in there to show that I knew I was misquoting it, too. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/69 "2003-03-12T22:03:06Z")
Nice Guy Eddie: “Larry, stop pointing that fucking gun at my Dad!!!” Critical Bill: “I am Godzilla!!! You are Japan!!! Your reputation far exceeds your skills, mammy rammer.” David Lo Pan: “Good knife. Goodbye, Mr. Burton.” ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/70 "2003-03-12T22:57:33Z")
What…no, “Et tu Brute?” or how about Macbeth’s, “Lay on MacDuff and dammed be him who cries, ‘hold enough.’” …but my favorite is Mercutio’s (the character not the poster) exit line in _Romeo and Juliet_ when asked by Romeo if his stab wound (which was about to kill him) was bad, “Tis not as deep as a well nor as wide as a church door, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow and you will find me a grave man…” TV ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/71 "2003-03-12T23:18:23Z")
Two of the best belong to Edward Woodward: In “Breaker Morant”: [Breaker Morant faces the firing squad, w/o the blindfold, and shouts] “Shoot STRAIGHT, you bastards; don’t make a MESS of it!” In “The Wicker Man” (literally, geddit?): [after considerable Biblical haranguing and entreaties to his murderers, he turns to a private prayer] “Spare me the fiery pains of Hell, o Lord,… for I die… unshriven… And bestow upon me the bliss of everlasting glory… which knows no ending.” [incomprehensible, but it sounds like] “DELIA!!! DELIA!!!” ---
**Author:** ![aaaaaarrgg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@aaaaaarrgg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaaaaarrgg)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/72 "2003-03-13T00:09:05Z")
well of course when i saw the thread title my first thought was the death of boromir in fotr…you guys made it the first one! yay! also, even though it’s not _really_ a death scene, it may as well be: ‘fly, you fools!’ ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/73 "2003-03-13T01:40:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fibber McGee \* > \*\*Please tell me you’re joking. I don’t even like Kirk that much and I know he deserved a better death than _that!_ \*\* I agree. But I’m also of the opinion that Jim Kirk could have made ANY death scene written for him look good…well, short of something involving a Tutu and a Shetland Pony. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/74 "2003-03-13T02:20:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TV time \* > \*\*…but my favorite is Mercutio’s (the character not the poster) exit line in _Romeo and Juliet_ when asked by Romeo if his stab wound (which was about to kill him) was bad, “Tis not as deep as a well nor as wide as a church door, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow and you will find me a grave man…” > > TV \*\* “A plague on both your houses! They have made worm’s meat of me.” ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/75 "2003-03-13T02:58:24Z")
I would have liked to have seen…Montana…_ugh!_ Sam Neil in Hunt for Red October ---
**Author:** ![mmjewett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mmjewett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmjewett)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/76 "2003-03-13T05:39:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic \* > \*\*“Earn this.” > > Tom Hanks in _Saving Private Ryan_ \*\* Damn! You got it before I did – this is mine as well. Very powerful. ---
**Author:** ![Frenetic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2bfe46/32.png) [@Frenetic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frenetic)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/77 "2003-03-13T06:14:28Z")
"Elias running from the NVA in platoon (screw Tom Berenger).We must give props too to Roy Battie (Blade runner). But for most hard core tuff guy manuver of mortality the award goes to… Charles S. Dutton fist fighting a xenomorph (a Alien to us lamins) while having boiling hot lead poured on top of him(Alien 3). NOW THAT’S GANGSTER!!! ---
**Author:** ![Tarantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@Tarantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarantara)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/78 "2003-03-13T07:02:42Z")
Timothy Dalton steals the rocket pack, leavng our heroes to supposedly perish aboard a doomed Zeppelin. “I’m going to miss Hollywood.” He jumps out, the rocket pack fails, and he plummets to his death, taking out the “LAND” of the HOLLYWOODLAND sign. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/79 "2003-03-13T07:12:17Z")
Willem Defoe in _Flight of the Intruder_: Alfa…Mike…Foxtrot… ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591/80 "2003-03-13T15:12:40Z")
Godzilla in any of his movies- GHAAARRRRRHHHHHUUUOOO! (or however that roar of his is spelled) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words-best-movie-death-scene/160591.md?page=5)