Weekly topic: Best unexpected death scene.

What movie or show death was so unexpected but ultimately so interesting?

Brad Pitt getting his face blown off in the closet in Burn After Reading was a fascinating thing to see in theaters. You could hear audible gasps and laughs. An underrated movie overall but that scene is one of the highlights.

 

Scatman Crothers in The Shining comes to mind. After everything he goes through to get back to the Overlook, just to get offed right when he steps in the door is really deflating and adds to the sense that the isolation is impenetrable and the hotel is in full control.

Also Marvin in Pulp Fiction still gets me.

 

Samuel L. Jackson. Deep Blue Sea.

 

Leo in The Departed

 

If you came into Game of Thrones not knowing about certain major deaths in the early seasons from the books, I imagine they're pretty high on the list for tv side of things.

 

Hereditary, both the character and the method

 

The Deep Blue scene was definitely a shock in theaters when I was a kid. He was by far the most famous person in the cast.

 

Fargo and There Will Be Blood for murder weapons alone

 

Jamie Foxx in Baby Driver

 

Edward Furlong- American History X. And then Edward Norton sells it so emotionally and well.

 

A lot of ones I thought of already mentioned here, so...

The end of Fallen with Denzel Washington and John Goodman surprised me

 

The Other Guys is the funniest one of all time

 

I knew something was going to happen to them because they weren't the stars but it was definitely an all-time hilarious death scene.

 

This doesn't really count but somehow I went my entire life since its release not having the last act of Million Dollar Baby spoiled for me. I had however, heard that the movie had a very sad ending, so I watched the whole first hour and a half thinking that Clint was gonna get cancer and die or something. Holy hell did I get blindsided

 

I am a leaf on the wind

Watch how I soar

 

Yeah The Other Guys is truly the funniest death scene ever. Then the funeral right after with the "quiet fight" is just incredible