# Quality Movies In Which \*Nobody\* Dies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340 "2004-05-03T20:48:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340/101 "2004-05-05T15:53:28Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > Bud Cort wasn’t in _Willard_. Aggh! I could have sworn. Egad. Okay, so Bud “Harold & Maude”, “Dogma” Cort. I have the opposite view of **jsc1953** on “It’s a Wonder Life.” To me, there’s _too much death_ in it. In addition to George’s father, his brother has died in the Alternate Universe. The druggist gets a telegram telling him that his son has died. George has to fret about what to do with the mixed up Rx containing cyanide. And then there’s the bridge scene where George is about to commit suicide and the Angel pretends to commit suicide. A completely downer of a movie. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340/102 "2004-05-05T18:09:29Z")
> [@](#): > > You could show him Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, but it might leave him whimpering on the floor in a fetal position. Not only that, it probably doesn’t qualify because George and Martha keep referring to a teenage son who’s just been killed in a car crash. Of course, it turns out the son never died because _he never existed_. George and Martha made him up as a part of their drunken mindgames with the other couple. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340/103 "2004-05-05T18:13:43Z")
**The Lion in Winter** — An anonymous guard is stabbed in the throat on the stairs to the castle dungeon, and Queen Eleanor carefully steps over his body on her way down to rescue her sons. ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340/104 "2004-05-05T18:37:20Z")
(Slight hijack) This thread reminds me of the odd things they did to **Dragon Ball Z** to make it suitable for US broadcast. Instead of dying, people “went to another dimension”. :rolleyes: Hell was changed to “Home For the Infinite Losers”, and various people wearing HELL shirts now sport the HFIL logo instead. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: (/Slight hijack) …y’know, it might be better to expose “Sheldon” to death, rather than shelter him. Then he’ll be all nice and desensitized like the rest of us. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340/105 "2004-05-06T02:58:30Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > I don’t think anyone dies in **The Lion in Winter**. I know that you _believe_ that we believe that you believe that no-one dies in that movie, but we know that you know that we know this to be false, so you’ll never be King of England. ---
**Author:** ![Riqay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Riqay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riqay)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340/106 "2004-05-06T15:25:09Z")
Wanted to say _Real Genius_ … but nope. There’s that whole laser blast from the sky at the beginning. How 'bout … _Doc Hollywood_ (The old doc has a heart attack but Doc Stone saves him.) _Beautiful Girls_ _Bend It Like Beckham_ _Guys and Dolls_ _The Sure Thing_ ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340/107 "2004-07-17T02:11:13Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > Especially if the question is anything such as “What is the best movie ever”, or “What movie should they never destroy with a sequel?” 😉 Not to impugn on the sheer awesomeness of The Iron Giant, but there _is_ a scene in which a deer is shot (offscreen), but it does lead into the philisophical discussion about “soul” between Hogarth and the Giant, and showcases the fact that the Giant does have a soul… i just wish they weren’t so heavy handed with their “guns are bad” assertation, guns are inanimate objects, ot’s the person behind the trigger you need to be worried about… we now return you to your regularly scheduled thread, already in progress ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340/108 "2004-07-17T02:35:20Z")
In **It’s a Wonderful Life** , George Bailey’s father dies, forcing him to stay in Bedford Falls running the Buliding & Loan. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340/109 "2004-07-17T02:38:34Z")
**The Muppet Movie** ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340/110 "2004-07-17T06:36:40Z")
It’s been a while since I saw it, but several have mentioned _Close Encounters_. Doesn’t one person die when they (Richard Dreyfuss and company) are trying to sneak into the base at Pike’s Peak? Helicopter passes over them and nerve gasses them… Or is this another movie? ---
**Author:** ![factorial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ed8c4c/32.png) [@factorial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/factorial)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340/111 "2004-07-17T07:00:37Z")
Nobody dies in “Requiem for A Dream”, “Pi”, “Super Troopers”, and “Jackass: The Movie”, but I don’t think they’d be appropriate fare for someone you’re trying to keep sheltered. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340/112 "2004-07-17T12:57:14Z")
> [@edwino](#): > > It’s been a while since I saw it, but several have mentioned _Close Encounters_. Doesn’t one person die when they (Richard Dreyfuss and company) are trying to sneak into the base at Pike’s Peak? Helicopter passes over them and nerve gasses them… Or is this another movie? That was some sort of sleeping gas, nothing fatal (and it was Devil’s Tower they were looking to climb, incidentally). ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340/113 "2004-07-17T19:49:15Z")
_My Neighbor Totoro_. The possibility of the mother dying is mentioned, but it’s asserted that she won’t. And then she doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340/114 "2004-07-17T20:35:09Z")
Is anyone actually killed in Kubrick’s “Clockwork Orange” ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340/115 "2004-07-17T21:49:20Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Is anyone actually killed in Kubrick’s “Clockwork Orange” Um, yes. Alex kills the woman by using the sculpture of the penis to bludgeon her to death. He is sent to prison for her murder. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340/116 "2004-07-17T22:34:48Z")
I looked, but didn’t see the disqualification of this: in _The Natural_, the Harriet Bird character attempts to murder Roy Hobbs then turns the gun on herself. Pictures of the murder scene are flashed by the Judge as blackmail. Ironically, I think the movie _I Love You To Death_ has no death in it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quality-movies-in-which-nobody-dies/243340.md?page=5)