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… "
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”
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.
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…”
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!!!”
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.
"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!!!
