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Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
The Groob Started conversation Mar 23, 2006
Strangely, when asked this question I couldn't think of anything - and I still can't. The nearest I got was Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi. Any offers?
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
swl Posted Mar 23, 2006
Mask, (the one with Cher in)
The Shootist, (John Wayne)
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Mar 23, 2006
I am Spartacus!
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Mar 23, 2006
And speaking of Hollywood epics - El Cid.
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
swl Posted Mar 23, 2006
Ten Commandments
The Passion of the Christ
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Mar 23, 2006
Léon
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
swl Posted Mar 23, 2006
Best of the lot - Braveheart
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Mar 23, 2006
Does 'Carousel' count, seeing as how Billy Bigelow's dead when the movie begins and then tells the story in flashback?
Hombre http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061770/
Several of the main characters in The Great Escape were killed at (or near) the end of the movie, but were they actually 'heroes' in the Hollywood sense of the word?
West Side Story
Pretty much any tearjerker you can think of, really.
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
pedro Posted Mar 23, 2006
Hamlet, Oedipus, New Testament
, Blackadder the Fourth.
Do the heroes *have* to be good guys?
Would Achilles count in The Iliad, even though he doesn't actually die when it ends, cos you know he's going to?
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
Red Baron Posted Mar 23, 2006
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
I know they were bank robbers but they were gorgeous!
RB
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
swl Posted Mar 23, 2006
Bonnie & Clyde
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 Posted Mar 23, 2006
B'El beat me to Leon, so I'll spoil my knowledge-of-cool-films appearance to give you Titanic.
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
swl Posted Mar 23, 2006
Titanic ? She didn't die !!
Come to think of it, better delete my suggestion of "The Passion of the Christ"
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
pedro Posted Mar 23, 2006
That would rule out The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe too then.
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
F F Churchton Posted Mar 23, 2006
Gladiator!!!
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) Posted Mar 23, 2006
Love Story.
(actually, I've never seen it, but I gather the bird gets it. In fact, I think that's the whole point of the film. But I've never seen it. Never. Not once. No no no no no. Wouldn't countenance it. That Ryan O'Neal chap was quite nice though...)
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
airscotia-back by popular demand Posted Mar 23, 2006
Hard Times.
Stephen Blackpool the man of conscience and hero of the novel falls down a hole and dies. Not right at the end though so.........
Can you name any films/stories where the hero dies at the end?
Mu Beta Posted Mar 23, 2006
South Park: the Movie 
Love that film.
B
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airscotia-back by popular demand Posted Mar 23, 2006
Was it Kenny?
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- 2: swl (Mar 23, 2006)
- 3: swl (Mar 23, 2006)
- 4: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Mar 23, 2006)
- 5: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Mar 23, 2006)
- 6: swl (Mar 23, 2006)
- 7: aka Bel - A87832164 (Mar 23, 2006)
- 8: swl (Mar 23, 2006)
- 9: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Mar 23, 2006)
- 10: pedro (Mar 23, 2006)
- 11: Red Baron (Mar 23, 2006)
- 12: swl (Mar 23, 2006)
- 13: kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 (Mar 23, 2006)
- 14: swl (Mar 23, 2006)
- 15: pedro (Mar 23, 2006)
- 16: F F Churchton (Mar 23, 2006)
- 17: Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) (Mar 23, 2006)
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