[PenultimateManStanding]

Here's my favorite: Marlon Brando, in Last Tango In Paris, is shot by the girl he'd been shagging. He smiles, and takes out his gum and puts it under a balcony railing and then drops dead. It was sort of a sardonic 'good riddance' kind of smile.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Bob Dylan had a similar theme in Pledging My Time:

Well, they sent for the ambulance
And one was sent.
Somebody got lucky
But it was an accident

[Free]

Mine is also taking place in Paris, in "A bout the souffle" by Jean Luc Godard. Jean Paul Belmondo, playing a petty criminal who unluckily killed a policeman, has just been "stabbed in the back" by his girl friend, she called the police. As he realizes it, he still has time to run away, but he sort of looses the will to live, and gets shot by the police. As they all stand around him while he is dying, including his girl friend who is pregnant by him, he makes funny grimaces like he always used to do, and then says: "You are disgusting" to her.
The scene is even weirder than it sounds!



"Devenir immortel et puis mourir..."

[ashurbanipal]

When Patrick Bateman kills Paul Allen in "American Psycho." I can't really describe it as, properly understood, the "scene" takes about 15 minutes to play out fully. But it's rather, um, gruesome and strange, and strangely reflective of American life as we know it.

[smallpoxgirl]

I'd say the best death scene has to be Braveheart.

FREEDOM!!!

[PenultimateManStanding]

Another one that's good is when Jimmy Durante dies in It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World. He's lying off the side of the road after being in a car crash. The people all come to hear his last words (about a huge fortune buried under a big W). There's an old bucket laying there. At the moment of death, he kicks the bucket.

[SinisterBlueCat]

Million Dollar Baby has my vote for the most tear jerking death scene...

I bawled like a baby when Frankie set maggie free by removing her breathing tube and injecting her with an adrenaline overdose.

[PrairieMule]

Kurosawa's Yojimbo. It was remade twice (Fistfull of Dollars and Last Man Standing). The Ronin is all beat up and sliced then the little boy asks him if he will die. He responds "I have a lot of men to kill first" Pulls it together, lays down some serious bushido, then dies.