A death in cinema is pretty much the most dramatic thing that can happen on our screens; whether it’s the result of a long, emotional narrative, an act of vengeance and retribution or the mere closing of a protagonist’s character arc, the majority of films you see across any genre will refer to kicking the old bucket, even the Walt Disney film the Lion King does, and Bambi, too.
It is an unavoidable aspect of cinema and can stir up several emotions, whether it’s the deserved killing of a bad guy in Die Hard that puts a macabre smile on your face, or the death of a lover in a drama, ala Gerard Butler in P.S I Love You that makes you reach for the tissues.
Other times, deaths can be comedic, and can even make you laugh, particularly if they are completely unavoidable or relatively pointless. Certain films go out of their way to make light of death and portray the funny side via dark humour, such as the Final Destination and Scary Movie franchises.
Here, we take a look at the more humorous side of death in films, and examine how certain deaths in film could easily have been avoided, if only the following advice had been heeded to…
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Prometheus should’ve been no.1
MOTHER FUC*ER. They couldn’t both fit on the door. It’s not about space, it’s about weight and buoyancy. The Mythbusters even did it. They only way they could both have survived is if they put a life preserver under the door, and honestly, who would have thought of that at the time?
I think Vincent shooting Marvin was a perfect scene to show how inept Vincent is as a hitman. If you go back and watch the movie while paying a lot of attention to him he really doesn’t do anything right
I think in the case of Zoolander it is play with gasoline and smoke. Hate that film.
The one film death that to me seemed really easy to avoid was One from the original Resident Evil when he was in the laser room. Instead of sitting there sizing up the laser grid he could have moved back two steps to avoid being cubed!
I could only add scenes from the films I have actually seen really – Prometheus and Resident Evil etc are films I haven’t seen yet, but cheers for the additional suggestions.
Se7en…?
You might want to rent the flick again, buddy. Doe never kills anybody for “wrath,” and he only gets up to Sin #6 by killing Mills’ wife. The seventh murder- wrath- is Mills killing Doe.
Man, you must have really been disappointed by that film if you didn’t grasp that. How about, “John Doe could have easily avoided death by not turning himself in?” Or “John Doe could have easily avoided death by not killing a bunch of people?”
Yeesh.