10 Dramatic Movie Deaths You Couldn't Help Laughing At

Some film directors seem to really want to drive home the fact that a character is dead. Rather than risking any ambiguity whatsoever, they shoot death scenes in which there can be absolutely no doubt that a character's heart just stopped beating.

That's what happens in Meet Joe Black. The entire film is built on the idea that "Joe" (we never learn the man's real name) dies near the beginning and his body is possessed by Death for the remainder of the film. So, in order to ensure that the audience is well aware that Joe is dead, he gets hit by not one, but two cars while crossing a New York street.

It's quite an emotional scene at first, with Joe looking longingly back towards the woman he just met, hoping she might be looking back towards him too. Instead, he sees nothing but an empty street. The blaring of a horn interrupts his moment and he dodges the first car coming his war, before being smashed square-on by another vehicle and bouncing off a taxi just for luck.