Posted on 03/13/2024 12:31:01 PM PDT by Morgana
You know our depraved culture has reached a new low when it has “memorable death scenes”
“Apology accepted Captain Needa.”
I must not be a Star Wars fan.
I don’t remember him and I’ve seen 6 Star Wars movies over my lifetime.
I’m pretty sure James Bond also killed him.
Tended to play the second-to-top henchman who got killed.
Memorable death scenes have been a part of the culture for ages. In the movies arguably the Wilhelm scream ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream ) is the tops. But before movies they’re still there, I mean Shakespeare stacked up memorable deaths all over the place.
There have been times I would have liked to have Darth Vader’s ability to do this, but thank God I didn’t. 😀
“You know our depraved culture has reached a new low when it has “memorable death scenes””
Any other movie yes but it’s Star Wars so I’ll give it a pass we all knew Darth Vader was evil
Okay. We haven’t reached a new low.
We’re still squirming in the same mire as we were 500 years ago.
I would think the shower scene in Psycho would be in the top 10.
Or more. Greek tragedies have a lot of memorable deaths. Lets face it, if you’re writing a story with death one way to stand out from all the other stories is with a memorable death.
I picked Wilhelm just because that sound clip gets used over and over again. Private Wilhelm’s death itself isn’t memorable. But that 2 seconds of audio has got to be the most used clip in movie and TV history. Even animated toys and cars (Toy Story, Cars) have died Wilhelm style.
Never heard of him.
Was he an ewok?
True. Passion plays, too.
First, I use it in the sense that Sinclair did, meaning those considered of little importance, not worthy of "notice," by the dominant social, political, and economic group in a past society. Second, and following from the first, I use it to mean those considered not worth "noting" or writing about, those who therefore are not as visible to us in the written records we study. And thirdly, I use it to refer to those written about less frequently, or little "noted," by historical archaeologists.https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2qnx5pm
Robot Chicken had a skit where the crew had to pretend to be choked and die because if Vader realized he couldn’t kill that way he would just hit them with his light saber.
Three that immediately come to mind for me are Spock’s death in The Wrath of Khan, Roy Batty’s death in Blade Runner, and Quint’s death in Jaws.
Manuel’s death in Captains Courageous. is another.
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