OT: Best cinematic death scene goes to?

[Vanguard83]

Another teacher and I got into it today (of course I'm right) about the best death on film...
lots of contenders we rattled off but we boiled down to:

Val Kilmers Doc Holliday.....asks Wyatt to leave, as much as he doesn't want to, he respects Docs wishes and "thanks him for always being there"...  Still witty to the last, Doc dies with his "boots off"

Russell Crowe's "Maximus" Gladiator...having survived countless battles, an execution attempt, he returns to a murdered wife and son. Despite the treachery of Commodus' he exacts his revenge before being reunited with his family.

Reservoir Dogs - Mr. Orange, bleeding out admits to Mr. White he is the undercover cop, as White puts a gun to his friends head the camera pulls away - we hear police bust into the garage, then the gunshot. Like Hitchcock, we don't SEE it, we are left with the echo of the shots.

Platoon - Sgt. Elias running from advancing NVA, after being shot by Barnes, he reaches skyward to the Huey's trying to provide cover, falling forward.

How to Die in Oregon- Documentary on the "right to die" issue for terminal patients, it follows individuals with terminal illness and their decision to end their life / suffering.  Chronicles a lovely woman's  (name escapes me) losing battle with cancer.  As she decides this is the evening that she will end her life, the camera films from outside her window (weren't allowed inside) you hear her and her husband reminisce and sing...then the screen goes BLACK.

Gibsons Braveheart? Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan? God denies Salieri in Amadeus? Spartacus?


Thoughts?.......Others?

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Dumbledore and Snape.  

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The Professional - Jean Russo's dying scene where he says to Gary Oldman's character: 'This is from..... Matilda'. And has already pulled the pin on a bunch of grenades secretly strapped to him and puts the pin in his hand. 

Fun fact: this is Natalie Portman's acting debut at 12 years old. Russo, Oldman and Portman in this, highly underrated.

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Queen of Thorns 

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For me its tough to top Gladiator and Saving Private Ryan...I'm a blubbering fool when it comes to a good cinematic death scene...

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Dally in the outsiders...he blew.

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Margaret Hamilton, WWW, Wizard of OZ, I am in my 60's and that scene haunted me most of my life.

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I think I've changed my mind from Gladiator to Private Ryan. I've always kinda thought "dying last words" were hollywoods "money shot"....seems like everyone gets a "last word or sentence"....doesn't always go down that way unless in a movie.

but as Captain Miller fights his own demons, surrounded in an "atmosphere of death" this "teacher and baseball coach" musters enough strength for one last lesson..."Earn this.....Earn it". Now we understand why private Ryan needs validation that he was "a good man" he needs to know that he has lived up to the expectations of the dead Captain.

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Yep William Wallace in Braveheart.
Gibson was great in this movie.

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Bubba Blue.
Tragic because it was so true. They drafted men into that war without regard for how fitting their personality or ability to survive was. 19 year old meat. Gump proved you sometimes just needed to be lucky or charmed.