The thread title is pretty clear. I want scenes in which the obviously doomed person does, in fact, die, and the draggee is, ah, dragged for his or her own good.
Cinema or television is fine.
Thanks,
StR
Two from Trek come to mind.
Though not exactly as described
Sisco being dragged from his his dead wife in the pilot episode of DS9. The ship is about to explode and he begs an officer to help get rubble from his wife to free her. The officer declares her dead and says they have to escape. He cries out “we can’t leave her here” and is dragged off screaming
In “City of the edge of forever” Kirk restrains McCoy to allow the doomed Edith Keeler to be hit by a truck.
The Sisko scene is the template for what I’m thinking of. The TOS scene doesn’t qualify as Kirk is not exactly doing it for McCoy’s own good; that is, his motive is to see that the do-gooder dies on schedule rather than to save the doctor’s life.
Aragorn drags Frodo away from the brink of the chasm in Moria when Gandalf takes the big dive.
I thought of a different Star Trek scene - in STII where Spock goes into the reactor to fix the warp drive, exposing himself to a fatal amount of radiation. McCoy tries to stop him, but Scotty holds McCoy back and says something like “He’s already dead.”
Does Sophie’s Choice count?
Skammer, not quite - IIRC McCoy gets nerve-pinched (and, we later learn, mind-melded) by Spock. Scotty and McCoy later hold back Kirk when he rushes towards the irradiated compartment where Spock is dying.
Chinatown - Jake is led, if not dragged, away from the doomed little girl as her creepy grandfather (and father) swoops in.
Similar to the OP but not quite, the Joe Morton cyberneticist character in Terminator 2: Judgment Day is gutshot and dying, but urges the others to run away, holding police at bay while he keeps his finger on the deadman switch for the bomb that’ll blow up Cyberdyne.
In Daylight Stallone spends the movie running around saving people from a flooding tunnel, in one scene a few people are drowning and he just leaves because he can’t save them.
The movie wasn’t all that great but the shock of that scene has stuck with me.
There are lots of those “Horatius at the Bridge” scenes out there.
To the OP: The Richard Lester version of “4 Musketeers.” With a twist - it’s Milady who is dragged off to her doom, while Athos grabs d’Artagnan to prevent him from stopping the headsman.
*Athos: Make one move to save her, D’Artagnan and we will cross swords; and this time, I swear I will kill you. *
But is he forced to leave by another person? Or is it his own decision, forced upon him by circumstances?
Sort of the chasm scene from Indiana Jones III where Indy is reaching for the Grail/Hot Blond evil female.
The Hurt Locker has a scene sort of like this like this near the end. It’s new enough that I’ll spoiler it.
Sgt James (Renner) isn’t dragged away physically from an Iraqi who has a bomb (unwillingly) strapped to him, but another soldier urges him to flee, and even pulls at him for a little bit before running away. James attempts to disarm the bomb, but realizes he can’t in time and says “I can’t help you” and runs away.
The Last of the Mohicans. I don’t remember all the details, but Day-Lewis drags Lead Actress screaming out of the Indian camp where said Indians are about to roast her redcoat boyfriend alive. Day-Lewis then shoots redcoat boyfriend from far away, saving him from further torment and spoiling the Indians’ fun.
Chuck (from “Chuck”) is dragged away from the doomed creator of Defender (or something like that) who’s playing the game on a console rigged to blow when he loses his lives.
:smack: I knew I was remembering that wrong. Still I think it fits the OP, although I had the character’s wrong.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was the girlfriend.
I assume “loses his lives” means “loses the game.” Do you know the episode title so I can search for it on YouTube?
Iggie is prevented from running to the body of her brother after he was run over by a train in Fried Green Tomatoes. Not exactly the same, but close.
The chick with the machine-gun leg is lifted away by helicopter from the body of El Ray in Planet Terror. Although she voluntarily reaches up for the rope.
Would the families being separated in Titanic (the movie or the musical) count?
I haven’t seen Hurt Locker since its initial release but I seem to remember a scene that would qualify involving one of the main characters being pulled away from defusing an Iraqi who was (involuntarily) loaded down with explosives. Does this sound right to those who’ve seen it more recently?
There’s a scene in Carrie where the Amy Irving is dragged away from a whole school gymful of doomed people before she can warn anybody about how Chris and Billy are going to dump blood on Carrie.
“I, Robot” with Will Smith.
Smith is dragged away (by a robot) from saving a little girl in danger of drowning in a car submerged in a river.
He has emotional scars from this, as well as aquiring an artificial arm.