Film deaths that genuinely upset you

[Custard]

Django Unchained -

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Shultz. Shultz should've rode off into the sunset. I know he had to die to raise the stakes and quest for revenge for Django, but it still made me all sad up in the face

Django's last goodbye is really moving, too

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Mask -

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When Cher's son dies in his sleep, and she finds him :(

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[checkoutgirl]

Every death in The Grey had an inordinate effect on me, by the end I was starting to feel a bit manipulated by the deaths.

[Johnny Townmouse]

I remember finding Christopher Walken's death in The Deer Hunter utterly devastating.

[El Unicornio, mang]

The only ones I can think of are Pacino in Carlito's Way (all that running around and he gets offed in a split second by a nasty cunt) and of course Hooch in Turner and Hooch

[Custard]

Not a film, but The Sopranos -

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Adrianna. Just. Orrible.

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[Jerzy Bondov]

For some reason I was really upset by

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Dylan Moran

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getting munched in Shaun of the Dead. He just gets torn apart. I don't even know why; he's not very nice and I wasn't affected as much by poor

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Penelope Wilton

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getting shot in the face. I found it extremely traumatising, to the point that it puts me off watching it again. I'm an idiot.

[Wet Blanket]

Any of the rabbits in Watership Down.

The mum dinosaur in Land Before Time.

Gus in Lonesome Dove.

[anonymous_lurker]

I've still not got over

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the Elephant Man

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's death and it was two years since I saw it.

[SteveDave]

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou- When the screen flashed red when

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Steve & Ned were in the water after their helicopter crashed

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, the entire cinema audience I was with inhaled in dismay.

[Catalogue Trousers]

Oscar Wallace's death in The Untouchables. Malone's overblown demise I can take or leave, but Oscar's is just so sudden and callous. It's like killing the bad-ass Winnie The Pooh.

[Johnny Townmouse]

Spider in Goodfellas.

Did my head in. The cold-blooded way it is done is made worse by Pesci's inability to see how brave the boy was being standing up to him.

Similarly Also, Christopher Walken killing Dennis Hopper in True Romance.

I found the torture scene in Gangster No.1 pretty upsetting, regardless of how cunty the main character being killed is. The sadism got to me.

[CaledonianGonzo]

I was going to say the death of Frankie Carbone in Goodfellas - signalling, as it does, the last onscreen appearance of the greatest haircut in cinema history.

[Serge]

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou- When the screen flashed red when

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Steve & Ned were in the water after their helicopter crashed

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, the entire cinema audience I was with inhaled in dismay.

Similarly, in 'L.A. Confidential' when

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Jack Vincennes is shot

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, I swear an entire cinema (including myself) jerked forward in surprise (when I showed it my parents, my mum nearly dropped her cup of tea and said, "You can't kill

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Kevin Spacey!

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".)

Not film, but

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Mike's

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death in 'Breaking Bad' upset me more than any other in the show. Fuck, from the moment he

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has to abandon his granddaughter in the park

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, it's sad, but

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the look of disgust on his face as he looks at Walter

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almost made up for it happening.

EDIT: Apologies for the amount of

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bars.

[Crabwalk]

The way things pan out for Seth Brundle always gets me. I hope I never get the terminal illness he contracts.

[Gulftastic]

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Wash

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in 'Serenity'. They'd already

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killed Book, and I was a bit sad, but when Wash bought it too

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I was gutted. I remember leaving the cinema just feeling numb.

[El Unicornio, mang]

The way things pan out for Seth Brundle always gets me. I hope I never get the terminal illness he contracts.

Speaking of The Fly, the ending of the original disturbed me greatly. The idea of being trapped on a web with a spider coming to eat me is quite dreadful.

[Thomas]

For some reason I was really upset by

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Dylan Moran

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getting munched in Shaun of the Dead. He just gets torn apart. I don't even know why; he's not very nice and I wasn't affected as much by poor

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Penelope Wilton

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getting shot in the face. I found it extremely traumatising, to the point that it puts me off watching it again. I'm an idiot.

That bit always played over in my mind, you're not alone. It's perfectly lit for playing over in the mind.

I think it's the idea of undergoing an extended, painful death process whilst still conscious that sticks with me. The idea that you're still awake to realise that there's no possibility of survival, witnessing your own point of no return. Sends chills down me tendons.

[thenoise]

Any of the rabbits in Watership Down.

When the Wind Blows -

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(although it's sort of after the end really), devastating.

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Plague Dogs -

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accidental death of that farmer fellow by gunshot to the head.  Comes out of nowhere and is pretty shockingly gory/nasty for cartoonland

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Grave of the Fireflies -

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just horrible

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Yup, cartoon deaths.  People shouldn't die in cartoons!

[Cerys]

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Wash

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in 'Serenity'. They'd already

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killed Book, and I was a bit sad, but when Wash bought it too

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I was gutted. I remember leaving the cinema just feeling numb.

I'm right with you on that one. 

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Wash shouldn't die.  No way should that be allowed.

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[homesickalien]

when

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river phoenix's character dies

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at the end of Stand By Me.   Always found it sad as the characters and the setting of the film all remind me of the friends and town I lived in when growing up

[Hangthebuggers]

The end of downfall, when the funny, shouty man with the moustache shoots himself. [nb]Only joking, but the bit were they're killing the kids with poison is awful.[/nb]

[Thomas]

The end of downfall, when the funny, shouty man with the moustache shoots himself. [nb]Only joking, but the bit were they're killing the kids with poison is awful.[/nb]

The teenage duo committing suicide in the street is a particularly tragic shot[nb]ho-ho![/nb] too.

[Benevolent Despot]

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The otter in Ring of Bright Water

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. They showed us that in primary school and I was mortified at

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the otter's demise

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. Sliced in two with a spade.

That's the only thing I remember about it.

The horror

The horror

[Steven]

Boy Bruce Willis witnessing the shooting of adult Bruce Willis in the airport in 12 Monkeys. It's like the emotional glue[nb]not THAT kind[/nb] securing a beautifully tragic moebius strip.

[Stone Cold Jane Austen]

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou- When the screen flashed red when

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Steve & Ned were in the water after their helicopter crashed

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, the entire cinema audience I was with inhaled in dismay.

The bit where Cody, the three legged dog, gets left behind on the pirate island upset me even more.

In terms of actual humans,

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the revelation that Anthony has been dead all along

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in Dead Man's Shoes hit me for six, and I even get teary whenever I've watched it again. Paddy Considine's delivery of the line

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"He still is"

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after asking

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"was he screaming my name?"

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seems to have a direct line to my cry-gland.

[Stone Cold Jane Austen]

Oh, and RP McMurphy of course. Not so much his death though, more his lobotomy.

[Incandenza]

In Serenity I was fucking furious

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when Wash died. He had very little actual screen time in the film and it felt thrown in just to have some 'MOSHUNS at the end.

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But there's all kinds of problems with that film but we don't need to get into that.

Again, not a film, but in Battlestar

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when Billy gets killed in the crappy hostage situation early on, especially after the horrible girl he's in love with goes off with horrible Apollo. And then poor President Rosling weeping "You're so young!". Too much. Just too much.

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And Cast Away.

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Wilson.

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[Mister Six]

Nobody doing Up, then? No? Okay:

Up.

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The wife, obviously - not her actual death (though that's sad), but the bit where he reaches (almost) the end of the photo album and sees her message - 'Thanks for my adventure. Now go have yours.'

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I am genuinely about to start blubbing in front of co-workers. Argh, argh, fucking film. Off for a walk.[nb]Wank.[/nb]

[madhair60]

Ohhh yeah, Dead Man's Shoes.  Far, far too close to home.  Fucking hate that brilliant film.

[Mister Six]

Plague Dogs -

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accidental death of that farmer fellow by gunshot to the head.  Comes out of nowhere and is pretty shockingly gory/nasty for cartoonland

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Yeah. There's an animated gif here, and... fucking hell. By the looks of it he's not even dead - he's alive with a blown-off face. Jesus.

Oh, and one I mentioned in a similar thread, before: the bit in The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, where

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the boy in the workhouse - I recall him being vaguely sympathetic, even - falls feet-first into a mangle. There's a shot of him, having been pulled in to his waist, thrashing around in desparation and disbelief as he continues to sink in. Eurgh.

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