Best Death Scenes in a Movie

sportschick · Jul 23, 2007

The lead singer has also gone on the record elsewhere saying it was about Cobain.

Mystery_Meat · Jul 23, 2007

Rolling Stone article:

"You gotta see it from the beginning," Richard Patrick says calmly before he presses play on the VCR remote control. "The speech before it is the scary part. That's really the horrifying part because you know this motherf---er's gonna kill himself."| And then we watch as indicted Pennsylvania treasurer R. Budd Dwyer reiterates his innocence to a press conference gathering, reaches into a manila envelope, pulls out a handgun, sticks it in his mouth and pulls the trigger.

"That's his last breath, right there," the Filter frontman says as blood pours from Dwyer's nostrils, his body goes limp and women scream in horror. "It shakes me up still." This gruesome suicide, captured live on TV in several U.S. markets twelve years ago, including Patrick's Cleveland hometown, inspired Filter's single "Hey Man Nice Shot," from their last album, Short Bus. But to this day some believe it was about Kurt Cobain.

"DJs started to say it was about Kurt Cobain which is absolutely fucking bullshit," he says from his Chicago loft/home studio/rehearsal space, where some of Filter's just released Title of Record was recorded. "I have the copyrights to prove it. And when it started to come out that it was about Kurt Cobain, that really freaked me out because the last thing in the world I want is Courtney Love or Krist Novoselic or Dave Grohl to think that I'm pushing my song's success just by saying it's about [him]. That's a horrible thing. That just drove me crazy."

Several years have passed since "Hey Man Nice Shot" was mistaken for a Cobain requiem and Dwyer's widow made an angry call to Filter's record label demanding an explanation. It's been even longer since Filter released a new album -- four and a half years, to be exact. In that time, only a few contributions to film soundtracks have satisfied Filter fans' urges. A messy break-up with Patrick's girlfriend, about which Title of Record's embittered "I'm Not the Only One" and heartrending "Miss Blue" were written, and split with guitarist Brian Liesegang are partly to blame for the delay.
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sportschick · Jul 23, 2007

Eh, maybe I read somebody else saying that's what it was about, but I could have sworn the that's what he said.

Course now the lyrics make NO sense outside of the chorus.

outofplace · Jul 23, 2007

Lone_Star_Speed said:

Mystery Meat said:

Does Budd Dwyer's press conference count as a movie? What it lacked in supporting cast it made up for in being really fucking gross.
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Plus it provided the inspiration for Filter's "Hey Man Nice Shot."

My list:
James Cagney in The Roaring Twenties
Humphrey Bogart in High Sierra
Chloe Webb in Sid and Nancy
Daria Nicolodi in Opera
Maria Pia Marsala in The Beyond
Paul Blake in Star Wars
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Some Star Wars fan I am. I had to look up Paul Blake. Talk about a scene that has been FUCKING RUINED!

DanOregon · Jul 24, 2007

Anybody mention Obi Wan in Star Wars?

Gene Hackman in Poseidon Adventure.

James Franciscus in one of the Planet of the Apes sequels - he's been shot yet finds the strength to crawl toward a nuclear trigger and collapses on the trigger. Game over.

Fenian_Bastard · Jul 24, 2007

Tyrone Power kills Basil Rathbone in The Mark of Zorro.
Counter-four disengage.
Yummy.

Lone_Star_Speed · Jul 25, 2007

sportschick said:

Eh, maybe I read somebody else saying that's what it was about, but I could have sworn the that's what he said.

Course now the lyrics make NO sense outside of the chorus.
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I remember when the song came out and everyone assumed it was about Cobain. The lyrics made me wonder if it was about Dwyer. I confirmed this with the band in 1996.

JBHawkEye · Jul 25, 2007

bigbadeagle said:

Gene Simmons at the end of "Wanted: Dead or Alive," as Rutger Hauer utters the immortal words, "Fuck the bonus," and pulls the pin on the grenade he has stuffed into Simmons' mouth to shut him up.
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I was trying to remember what movie that was in. That was one of the best.

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