Which film character's death moved you the most?

[cultcross]

Data's death in Star Trek: Nemesis probably would have made me cry had I not been spoiled on it 18 months in advance.

I wasn't spoiled on this at all, but it still had little impact on me. I mostly was distracted by assuming it was a fake out I think.

 

[gblews]

McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

The actual death scene was more "triumphant" to me (followed by the Chief's next move). The real sad and shocking thing was seeing, and realizing that he wasn't playing around this time, McMurphy after he'd been "fixed".

But I understand anyone feeling sad at this death. Randall P. McMurphy as presented by Jack was a magnificent character.

 

[gblews]

Connery's personal beefs with Broccoli, Saltzman, Lee, and Maxwell aside, I agree with comsol, I don't think he would have properly played Bond in OHMSS because he was bored with the role. He wanted to move on to other things, and only came back to do Diamonds because United Artists gave him a large payday (by 1971 standards) and promised to bankroll two non-Bond films for him.

Again, it comes down to an actor's professionalism. Just because an actor is bored with a role doesn't mean necessarily, that he or she cannot present the role as though it was the first time the character was played. True professionals do this all the time.

 

[BoxWhatBox]

Marley from "Marley and Me"

 

[Turd Ferguson]

1. Spock - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

2. Leonidas - 300

3. Sgt. Elias - Platoon

4. Uncle Bob - Terminator 2: Judgment Day

5. Ellie - Up

6. Johnny 5 - Short Circuit 2

7. Marley - Marley & Me

 

[Kirby]

George Kirk in Star Trek
Both Wash and Book in Serenity
I can't remember the character's name, but John Cusack played a scientist in Fat Man and Little Boy

 

[auntiehill]

^ The character was named Michael Merriman. The fictional character was a composite, of sorts, of real life scientists Louis Slotin and Harry Daghlian, both young men who died after exposure to the plutonium core--but after the bombing of Japan--not before, as they depict in the film.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Films and TV move me to tears regularly, but it has rarely been due to the death of a single character - though GoT almost pushed me over the edge this week.

Yet, Richard Curtis' beautiful and under-appreciated 2013 film About Time has a real sense of heartbreak when Bill Nighy's "Dad" character dies. It's partly due to how well written he is. It's partly down to how amazing Nighy is. But mostly it is down to the remarkable and almost real chemistry between Night and Domhall Gleeson. They feel like father and son. So to move through Tim's grief with him was palpable for me.

I've seen the film twice. Both times "Dad's" death has left me in bits. There is no doubt the loss of my own father compounds and amplifies the emotions the film is attempting to bring out in the audience (me), but the power lies in their performances as I have seen many other "dads" die in many other films and felt nothing.

Wonderful character whose loss enriches the film.

Hugo - actually bumped into Bill Nighy on Oxford Street last week. Lanky string bean of a fellow.