Old B.O.B. from The Black Hole.
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Mufasa? Bambi’s Mom? They ain’t got nothin’ on B.O.B., in my book.
Slim Pickins always did have the best screen deaths, didn’t he?
yee haw
harold and maude, 'nuff said
Farscape had a lot of deaths but two in particular stand out -
[spoiler]Aeyrun Sun’s Death at the end of Season 2, after being sent to her death by the man she loves (He was under the influence of an evil inner villain, long story).
The death of John Chrichton’s twin/clone was brilliant in many respects a) it gave the lead actor in the series a true death scene b) It managed to both end and take the relationship to a newer interesting level.[/spoiler]
Brian Donelly’s death in The Big Combo is fantastic.
A second vote for Grave of the Fireflies.
…and finally, one word -
“Superman”
The funeral scene in Waking Ned Devine takes that movie from silly comedy to bittersweet/dark comedy. It really gives that movie a complete 180 in tone. You can’t quite look at the people the same after that.
I’m going to second Mozart’s funeral in Amadeus. Doesn’t hurt that his Requiem is playing in the background, either.
[nitpick] Not Sam’s mom. His mom’s friend (Alma Terrain). Sam’s mom is the young redhead who denies him in front of the young men. [/nitpick]
Dang! I was just gonna mention that one. (I should have figured you’d get to it, Chuck; you’re one of about 4 people on the Dope who acknowledges a broad swath of early 20th century pop culture.)
Although what I find so classic about it is that there is no “great line”: Cagney is already good and dead.
Janet Leigh in the shower. Not where she actually gets stabbed. But after she has landed on the floor and the camera does that incredibly long pull back and she never blinks.
The death of Augustus in I, Claudius. He’s lying in bed staring at Llivia as she tends to him. He knows she’s poisoned him and the camera stays on him as she explains why. Eventually you notice that he hasn’t blinked for quite a while and Livia closes his eyes. Must have been really hard on Brian Blessed to do that.
Fluff choice: The recent episode of Smallville in which Jonathan Kent dies, “Reckoning.” The actual death scene, with him silent but giving Martha and Clark what he knows are his last looks, is great. And the funeral scene is very well done, a montage of scenes of the farm in a snowstorm with Peter Gabriel’s “I Grieve” playing over it, and then cut to the end of the funeral, still snowing, no words being spoken, but all the main characters interacting exactly as they should based on how their relationships with the Kents have been.
Serious “Art” choice: The Event, spoiled in case you haven’t seen it, because this is the absolute emotional climax of the whole movie:
Matt’s death. After taking an overdose of pills, which he throws back up before he dies, and his mother, knowing it’s for the best, resorts to smothering him with a pillow herself, crying over him as she does.
Buffy’s mom, Joyce Summers.
Following in the Buffy theme, end of 2nd season when Buffy has to kill Angel The first time that aired, I sat and bawled. It still gets me everytime.