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#1

The Best/Worst Deathbed Scene Ever?

Posted: 8/7/05 at 12:33am

What is the best death scene ever in a movie and the worst death scene?

BEST: Marlon Brando dying with the oranges in his mouth ranks pretty up there. Mostly because it's not the kind of death you expect for a mob boss.

WORST: No idea
#2

re: The Best/Worst Deathbed Scene Ever?

Posted: 8/7/05 at 3:37am

Worst: The death scene for Trinity in the third Matrix movie. It was way too long and slowed an already crappy movie. The whole time, I wish she died sooner, like in the sequel.
#3

re: The Best/Worst Deathbed Scene Ever?

Posted: 8/7/05 at 3:33pm

I think the worst death scene was in Love Story. Mad Magazine did a parody on it and she died of "OLD MOVIE DISEASES". It was very funny.
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#4

re: The Best/Worst Deathbed Scene Ever?

Posted: 8/7/05 at 4:35pm

I really gotta agree with the worst 'not-death' scene in RENT. *sigh* As much as I love the show... I think it probably would have been a little better if Mimi ACTUALLY DIED.
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re: The Best/Worst Deathbed Scene Ever?

Posted: 8/7/05 at 4:41pm

if Mimi died, the whole point of the show would have been lost. The show is about LIVING. Angel died because basically (s)he was a real "angel" who had all his stuff figured out, learned what he needed to learn, but Mimi needed more time to get her s*it figured out.
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#7

re: The Best/Worst Deathbed Scene Ever?

Posted: 8/7/05 at 5:14pm

"Can we count a not-death scene as the worst one ever? *cough*Rent*cough*"

haha yeah..thats really terrible

I agree that the best one is Fantine's death. Aw..poor Fantine..
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re: The Best/Worst Deathbed Scene Ever?

Posted: 8/7/05 at 6:36pm

if Mimi died, the whole point of the show would have been lost. The show is about LIVING. Angel died because basically (s)he was a real "angel" who had all his stuff figured out, learned what he needed to learn, but Mimi needed more time to get her s*it figured out.

Perhaps, but it really comes off as cheesy and... ugh. I'm sure there could have been a better way to do it.
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re: The Best/Worst Deathbed Scene Ever?

Posted: 8/7/05 at 7:58pm

Not only that (re: Fantine), she begs Valjean to stay until she is "sleeping," but she's dead by the end of that very sentence!
#10

re: The Best/Worst Deathbed Scene Ever?

Posted: 8/7/05 at 8:24pm

Best: Near death - Terms of Endearment when she's saying bye to her boys...BUCKETS!!!!!!!!!
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Worst: Flowers in the attic...Cory and the mother (even though it was a non-deathbed...it's still the worst!)
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re: The Best/Worst Deathbed Scene Ever?

Posted: 8/7/05 at 8:33pm

haha. I LOVE the Forbidden Broadway Les Mis.

"god it's high
this song's too high
pity me, change the key
bring it down, bring it down!..."
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#12

re: The Best/Worst Deathbed Scene Ever?

Posted: 8/7/05 at 8:38pm

BEST: Sirk's Imitation of Life (when Annie dies and Lana Turner screams by her bedside, and we see the photograph of Annie's daughter Sarah Jane smiling)
WORST: Freddy vs. Jason (when the woman from Destiny's Child gets thrown up against a tree)
#13

re: The Best/Worst Deathbed Scene Ever?

Posted: 8/7/05 at 8:39pm

I think one of the best is in the King and I. His final note to her...you have been very difficult woman...both blaming her for no more bowing, and then him slipping away...I'm sobbing just thinking of it. God, I love Yul Brenner.
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re: The Best/Worst Deathbed Scene Ever?

Posted: 8/7/05 at 11:35pm

if Mimi died, the whole point of the show would have been lost. The show is about LIVING. Angel died because basically (s)he was a real "angel" who had all his stuff figured out, learned what he needed to learn, but Mimi needed more time to get her s*it figured out.

Perhaps, but it really comes off as cheesy and... ugh. I'm sure there could have been a better way to do it.

Not only is RENT's ending cheesy, it's also incredibly insulting. Not all people with AIDS get "more time to get their s*it figured out."
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#18

re: The Best/Worst Deathbed Scene Ever?

Posted: 8/7/05 at 11:37pm

But some do. And Mimi isn't supposed to be the face of AIDS - just a modern spin on a classic character.
#19

re: The Best/Worst Deathbed Scene Ever?

Posted: 8/7/05 at 11:42pm

You're right, EvelynNesbit, some do. And when Prior gets "more life," it's incredibly moving. When Mimi wakes from the dead for no explicable reason, though, it's cheap and contrived, and makes Angel look like minced meat.
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