10 Movie Characters Who Died In The Final Shot
4. Butch & Sundance - Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid boasts one of the most iconic endings in all of cinema, as a wounded Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) find themselves cornered by the Bolivian Army with seemingly no means of escape.
Nevertheless, the duo seem confident that they can survive the encounter and make it to Australia, running out into the open and firing away.
Just at that moment, director George Roy Hill freezes the image of Butch and Sundance, all while several lengthy hails of machine-gun fire ring out.
While we don't see Butch and Sundance's dead bodies, there's no ambiguity whatsoever that we're seeing their final nanoseconds of life in this unforgettable freeze-frame.
It's a final image that's been homaged in numerous movies over the years, perhaps most notably Thelma and Louise, where Ridley Scott similarly pauses the final shot of the movie - of the title characters driving their car off the Grand Canyon - moments before their sure deaths.