What are some great suicide scenes from movies? And no, I am not saying suicide is great, I am talking about the scene.
-Shower/bathroom in Full Metal Jacket
bathtub scene in RoA
Thelma & Louise
The Elephant Man
Terminator 2
Longtime Companion
kentucky fried movie, when the daredevil guy yells " NIGGER !!!!!!!"
To a bunch of black guys
royal tenenbaums
Boogie Nights, Igby Goes Down, Jules et Jim
Rules Of Attraction, hands down.
Buffalo 66: the power of that use of "bullet time" beats the shit out anything in The Matrix...
My Name is Joe, no contest.
this thread is pretty spoilerful.
You people in the USA have it easy on the suicide scene in RoA
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I've got the US Region 1 DVD and when she slits her wrist with the razor it only goes up about 4cms... in the Australian version its heaps longer, she cuts up about 25cms! Its disgusting :/
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Godfather Part II
Chris Penn in The Funeral looked very realistic (I guess)
Quote from: lamasChris Penn in The Funeral looked very realistic (I guess)
oh yes, good choice
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if you consider walken's death at the end of deer hunter a suicide -- thats up there in my book.
You know, that had been bothering me about the bathtub scene in Rules of Attraction. The first time I saw the movie, which was at a preview screening before it came out, I remember the cut she made in her arm as lasting longer too. Then when I caught the movie in its theatrical release, it did seem shorter, and it still seems shorter on the DVD. I guess this is part of the difference between the unrated and the R-rated version. Was the porn magazine "Cumshot Review" still blurred out in the Australian version?
Heath Ledger in "Monster's Ball". Wow.
Quote from: FishbulbYou know, that had been bothering me about the bathtub scene in Rules of Attraction. The first time I saw the movie, which was at a preview screening before it came out, I remember the cut she made in her arm as lasting longer too. Then when I caught the movie in its theatrical release, it did seem shorter, and it still seems shorter on the DVD. I guess this is part of the difference between the unrated and the R-rated version. Was the porn magazine "Cumshot Review" still blurred out in the Australian version?
Ummm I'm not sure - I don't think it was as Australia had the unrated one. We always get the full version. Your 'eyes wide shut' is censored too!
But our 'The Shining' is 30 mins shorter :(
Another longer thing in RoA in Australia is when that guy spews up at the start... he spews everywhere... like all over her mouth and shit... thats disgusting too
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The end of "The Dreamlife of Angels" has a pretty good suicide scene... which was utterly stolen by "The Hours"... (if that's not true, someone please englighten me on the history of sitting-on-window-ledge suicide surprises)...
damnit. i want to see the unrated rules alot more now.
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The end of "The Dreamlife of Angels" has a pretty good suicide scene... which was utterly stolen by "The Hours"... (if that's not true, someone please englighten me on the history of sitting-on-window-ledge suicide surprises)...
Dammit... I really need to pay better attention to Spoiler warnings. Good call on "Dreamlife of Angels" though. That one is similar to the one in "Monster's Ball" in the way that it just
happens, with no real warning.
Seriously, I'll go see "The Hours" as soon as possible. Though I'm kind of boycotting it, "Chicago", and "Frida" as a protest to the fact that Diane Lane isn't favored in any of the Oscar predictions I've seen.
Quote from: polkabluesSeriously, I'll go see "The Hours" as soon as possible. Though I'm kind of boycotting it, "Chicago", and "Frida" as a protest to the fact that Diane Lane isn't favored in any of the Oscar predictions I've seen.
Then I'd avoid The Hours, cause it also contains the two other injustices.
I nominate Cronenberg's The Fly... Gut-wrenching in every sense. I can't watch it ever again.
From Slam Dance, the suicide scenes involving the junkie and C.C. Drood.
Little Bill - Boogie Nights
Brooks - Shawshank Redemption
In all fairness to The Hours, the suicide scene was shot exactly as it was described in the novel.
sorry I'm brigning in my opinion late (I'm fresh new) but I want to say that the 54 school girls jumping in front of a train in Suicide Club is a spectacular suicide scene..
I may sound like a sick bastard but my favourites are wrist-slitting (Europa and fucking Amal); and hangings (shawshank, Underground, Arizona Dream... most of kusturica's films have them
Monsters Ball
Boogie Nights
The Hours
budgie wrote: I nominate Cronenberg's The Fly... Gut-wrenching in every sense. I can't watch it ever again.
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I guess you're talking about the bit at the end where Brundle (in full Fly form) falls from the telepod and slowly crawls over to Geena Davis, urging her to blow his brains out. Ah fuck! Just thinking of that big, gross, moaning insect thing with big googly eyes gives me the serious shakes! I would blow its fuckin' head off just to get that face away from me! Cronenberg's 'Fly' is brilliant by the way......
Um, Hello?
LEAVING LAS VEGAS
The whole movie is one big suicide scene.
BTW, that's the way I'd want to go.
yeah! Leaving Las Vegas does have one big and long and painfull suicide process! We tend to forget that... maybe because it's not spectacular... I say Maybe.. Or maybe because it doen't happen quickly.. :roll:
one popular one is from Alien 3 (not that i like that much :roll: )
but i love Virgin suicides one....
when u see the feet of one of the sisters hanged...Hangs creep me out more than any other kind of suicides....
Quote from: oakmanc234budgie wrote: I nominate Cronenberg's The Fly... Gut-wrenching in every sense. I can't watch it ever again.
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I guess you're talking about the bit at the end where Brundle (in full Fly form) falls from the telepod and slowly crawls over to Geena Davis, urging her to blow his brains out. Ah fuck! Just thinking of that big, gross, moaning insect thing with big googly eyes gives me the serious shakes! I would blow its fuckin' head off just to get that face away from me! Cronenberg's 'Fly' is brilliant by the way......
Yes, that's it. Only I find it too moving. I guess the repulsiveness is a part of that, but it's unbearably sad. Cronenberg is great at melodrama.
I'd go with movies like Monster's Ball, Boogie Nights, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.. but I'd say the best movie for suicides is Harold and Maude.
The Game!