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When   most crowds   go to watch a moving picture , they expect to see a substantial finish . Whether it ’s an natural action flick with heroes fight villains , a love level with two star - crossed fan , or a repulsion movie with a villain kill several victims , the termination can make or break a movie . However , that does not mean the heroes always need to win , and in some cases , the claim characters even die in the end .

When the title persona dies , the moving-picture show has to play its cards right . There need to be a reason this eccentric die and if the flick does n’t roleplay by the rule , viewer will often reject it completely . However , when it is done right , the death of a title character can be a powerful storytelling here and now and there are several instances where it was pulled off cleanly .

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)

In the 1969 classic westernButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , there are clearly two claim character and they both go out in a glare of aura - literally . The film assure the level of the two iconic   criminal on the run from the jurisprudence , many of whom are as corrupt as the bad guy cable .

One of the best westerns ever made , Butch Cassidyhas an iconic ending that has been copied by other movies where the two title character are trapped by the Bolivian Army in a modest town . However , they were not uncoerced to go down without a combat and race out before a halt - frame ends the movie with the strait of the scout group opening fire .

Donnie Darko (2001)

The title character inDonnie Darkois a young teenage boy who endure in a suburban area with his family . The flick unfold with Donnie heat up far from his rest home after a sleepwalking incident . When he returns home , he learns a jet engine fell from the sky and crashed into his bedchamber .

what is more , a large man in a cony costume named Frank distinguish Donnie the earth will end in 28 days , 6 time of day , 42 minutes , and 12 mo . What toy out isa sci - fi tale that has Donnie Darko learnthat the world is not what it seems and the end really is cheeseparing .

The Fly (1986)

While not his actual name in the movie , Seth Brundle becomes the title character , The Fly . In a remake of the classic Vincent Price horror movie , David Cronenberg took the original idea and create his own body repugnance motion-picture show that eclipsed the original in every imaginable mode .

The Flyhas Seth as a brilliant scientistwho attempts to create a equipment that can transport items across space using telepods . However , when Seth try it and a fly end up in there with him , it all goes horrifically amiss , and he   commence to transform into a human rainfly , his fate sealed .

Gladiator (2000)

Released in 2000,Gladiatortells the fib of a former military superior general named Maximus forced into the role of a prizefighter when his queen dies and the man ’s son takes control and places the honored general into the gladiatorial pack .

It would seem that , in a movie like this , the Gladiator from the rubric would soon help oneself free his fellow captive and pass a rising against the evil Modern king . While he does start the wheels work in unfreeze the gladiator , he does so at the cost of his own aliveness .

Leon: The Professional (1994)

Luc Besson directed the thrillerLeon : The Professionalin 1994 , where Jean Reno star as the form of address theatrical role . Leon was an assassinator who lived in an apartment construction where a young girl ’s household was murdered by some hitmen .

Leon took the girlfriend into his care reluctantly , and helped teach her how to represent herself , and finally how to kill so she could look for revenge against the people who killed her parents . While the young girl , played by a 13 - year - honest-to-goodness Natalie Portman survives , Leon give his life-time to make certain she has one to return to .

Thelma & Louise

Thelma & Louiseshares a kinship withButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid . However , the big difference is that one movie was about two outlaws who got by robbing banks while the other flick was about two women digest up for themselves , yet becoming felon even so .

InThelma & Louise , the two women move on the discharge when one killed a man who attempted to violate one of them in the parking lot of a bar . With the constabulary close in , they commit even more crimes and end up ending the moving-picture show in their own freeze soma , one that leaves little to the imagination as they get off a drop together .

Bonnie And Clyde (1967)

Bonnie   and Clydeis a true news report , so the fact that these title of respect case cash in one’s chips in the end is no surprise to anyone . The two were a pair of the most infamous bank robber in United States history , both because of their success before they died as well as the fact that people loved them and wanted them to succeed .

They were pop because they mostly slip from the rich and yield back to the misfortunate , but this did not keep them out of the law ’s crosshairs , as the constabulary wanted to kill them , not becharm them , and that is what happened in the volatile finale .

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Paul Newman asterisk asCool Hand Luke , a   adorn World War II veteran arrested for cutting parking meters off their railing . He end up   play on a mountain range gang which is go by a crooked warden known as the Captain .

Throughout his entire time in the prison , he runs afoul of the Captain , especially when the other prisoners take off to look up to him . After his female parent dies , he decides to escape and things do not end well for him in   a truly tragical termination .

Scarface (1983)

While a nickname , Al Pacino diddle Tony Montana , also known asScarface . Based on the novel of the same name , written by Oliver Stone , and lead by Brian De Palma , the movie differentiate the account of a Cuban refugee who becomes the head of a monolithic drug cartel in Miami .

The death get along as no shock , as he was walking on the sharpness throughout the entire picture and it was disgraceful he made it as far as he did . His death , though , was splendid as he was tree in his star sign and come out with throttle blaze .

Carrie (1976)

The first novel that Stephen King release wasCarrieand it made him an instant best seller . It was only a few years later that the movie interpretation arrived , with Sissy Spacek asterisk as Carrie White , a adolescent girl who learns she has telekinetic powers .

Carrie then uses these major power to punish the the great unwashed who rack her throughout her full life , admit her cruel , overbearing mother . With all the deaths she cause ,   she could n’t avoid her terminal , but the good news is that she depart out her mode .

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A split screen of Gladiator and Braveheart.

Paul Newman’s Butch Cassidy is drenched in water and Robert Redford’s Sundance Kid wears a hat as he observes off-screen enemies from a mountain perch in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Jake Gyllenhaal in Donnie Darko

Seth Brundle in the middle of his mutation in The Fly.

Russell Crowe as Maximus in Gladiator afterlife farm

Leon holding a gun to his front door while looking through the peep hole

Thelma and Louise take a polaroid picture together

Bonnie and Clyde standing together in the street.

Luke Jackson in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Tony Montana gets arrested in Scarface

Carrie standing with pig’s blood on her head.

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