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Heroic film deaths! (Might contain FILM ****SPOILERS*****)
soap:
--- Quote from: Spinless ---Ripley spends her time during the screen play in a coma
Hicks and Bishop become the lead characters.
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i'm sold :)
Jedit:
--- Quote from: soap ---
--- Quote from: Spinless ---Litersize, now you can pretend Alien 3 DID happen.
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don't have time to read it now ... but can i assume that hicks is suitably awesome in it ?
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No. It's Gibson's legendary script for Alien 3: This Time It's Completely Fucking Abysmal.
Just to give you some idea of how utterly terrible it is: remember when the Queen impales Bishop on her tail then rips him in half? Well, apparently she laid an egg inside him when she did that, and Ripley didn't even notice when she put him in the sleep tube! Man, those eggs that are the size of a human torso are hard to miss, aren't they?
Narr:
To be honest, I want to see a heroic character die a rather unheroic death for a change. In the novel I plan to write sometime before I leave this world, one of the characters, and probably the best fighter among them, is hit with an arrow through the neck in a volley of arrows when they storm a castle. I mean, the majority of the fighters that raid somewhere are killed by archers, but heroes, who are always on the front line, never seem to be hit even though they'd probably be the first ones aimed at. It's gonna be very inglorious, and very jarring (although not to anyone that reads this.. of course, you don't know my real name! :O)
But, as for Heroic deaaths:
I second Mr. Orange and Spartacus, and raise you Katsumoto in The Last Samurai, and...
JESUS. In any movie ever made about him.
@ Spinless: Jean Grey isn't dead, foo. It's just alluded that she passed on. She is "reborn" as the Phoenix. Wait for X3.
That guy:
Well obviously Jean isn't dead. You see her in the trailers. It would be strange for someone to think that she is alive, but I digress.
I like the idea about the hero dying in the first few minutes of the fight. Sort of like 'The Alamo' when the commander dies early. I generally like when something goes against the grain. It would be very interesting to see this done right. Just remember that when the main bad dude dies, he must go out in a similar manner. Example: beginning of 'Gladiator' when the leader of the Germanic tribe gets killed. I would enjoy it very much.
Jedit:
--- Quote from: Narr ---To be honest, I want to see a heroic character die a rather unheroic death for a change.
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In the Buffy finale, Anya is stabbed in the back during a meaningless skirmish. It's over in just a few seconds - no big thing, no drawn out death scene, and none of the series' main characters even sees her fall.
In the same vein, in Moorcock's Hawkmoon novels Oladahn is simply hacked to death, alone and unseen, and in George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels quite a number of characters die undignified deaths - off-camera, sometimes.
Would any of those satisfy you?
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