Taye Diggs in The Way of the Gun.
No last words, just shallow breathing and fluttering eyelids.
I thought the movie sorta stunk, but THIS was great.
“Say 'ello to my leetle friend!!”
Scarface
I saw a couple of TV character deaths go by, so I feel slightly less guilty when posting this…
“You’re going to shoot a Mountie? They’ll hunt you to the ends of the Earth.”
Star Wars Deaths!
Perkins: Stay on target…
Nondescript TIE Fighter: BOOM!!!
Boba Fett: Auuuugghhhhh!!!
Sarlac: burp
Yoda: There is…another…Sky…walk…er…
Shield Generator Guard Who Han Throws That Battery Thing At: Aiiiiieeee!!
Executer Pilot: Too late!
Darth Vader: You already have…Luke. You were right. You were right about me. Tell your sister…you were right.
I don’t remember what Joe Gideon said, but I’ve always liked the completely overdone death scene from All That Jazz
Bye-bye, my life, goodbye
Ya know, my plan is to die by shooting or stabbing (well, on my 103rd birthday anyway) just so I can use that line.
If not, I’ll have to go with “Either that wallpaper goes or I do.”
Another vote for Spock’s death.
Uhhhhhhhh does that mean what I think it means? :eek:
Okay, I’m probably one of the six people that remember this movie. It’s “Robin and Marion” screenwritten by the same guy (Golding? Goldman)) that did “The Lion In Winter”.
Robin Hood (Sean Connery) has returned to Nottingham twenty years after the main events. At forty-five or so, he is an old man. He’s been off on crusade with Richard. Marion (Audrey Hepburn) had become a nun, but when he returns she joins him in the forest and there is one last battle between the peasants and the knights. Just before it, Robin fights the Sherrif in a terrible, exhuasting, duel with battleswords. The Sherrif is killed and Robin badly wounded. Marion takes him back to her room at the Abbey and mixes a liquid, which she gives him. She also drinks herself. It is poison.
At first he is shocked when he realizes what she has done. He loses feeling and cries out for Little John, who bursts into the room. As his strength fails, he knows that is is for the best.
“I’d not have had another day like this, would I?” he says to Marion. She can no longer stand and sinks down against the wall, shaking her head.
“It’s for the best, then.” he says.
He asks her if she’s loved him, and she replies. I wish I had the script in front of me, (Have it, can’t find it, ) but the jist of it is this-
“I’ve loved you more that sunlight, more than laughter and children and food to eat. I love you more than one more day.”
John is beside them, crying and Robin asks for his bow. He fits an arrow to the string and says to John, 'Where this arrow lands, lay me beside my lady." The arrow flies out the window and into the blazing sky.
The final death scene from my favorite play/movie Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead wherein Gary Oldman’s wondering it came to be that they wound up with nooses around their necks (It’s based on a 400 year old play. I don’t think that’s a spoiler anymore). To paraphrase:
Guildenstern: There must have been a moment where we could have said “No thank you, we’ll stay right here at home”. I can’t remember when that point was though. Oh well, maybe next time we’ll catch it. [Shuts his eyes tightly]
Rosencrantz, unable to differentiate himself from Guildenstern, looks at him, sees him shut his eyes, and can do no better than to copy him by shutting his own eyes.
“Larry? I’m a cop…” - Reservoir Dogs
“Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.” - Blade Runner
<<“Superman…” The Iron Giant>>
Thanks for reminding me about that one. It made me cry.
No, it really is a death scene (and you’re right, it’s a very cool one).
Laertes (Ralph) - “Horay!!”
(stabs himself with his practice swing)
Rosencarl and Guildenlenny - “Booyaa!!”
(who then slap poison covered hands, thus killing each other)
Margetrude: “Well, I’m not cleaning this mess up!”
(drinks poison, dies)
Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Here’s to my love!
I like the Zeferelli version better.
I just recalled the death of Sean Connery’s character in The Man Who Would Be King. Standing in the middle of the suspension bridge singing as the tribesmen chop it down–Jeez that was powerful.
I second that GargoyleWB, Roy in Bladerunner is one of the best.
Although, to get the full effect:
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. 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. Time to die.”
And then it was sampled in Third Eye’s 1992 self-titled CD. Did you ever hear that? Haunting…