8 Films That Killed The Main Character Early
5. The Place Beyond The Pines
Ryan Gosling’s speedy rise to fame marked him out as the perfect candidate for drawing audiences into cinemas in 2013 - which is why it comes as such a shock that he dies a third of the way through this movie.
Shot by a police officer after an intense chase scene, Gosling’s bank-robbing stunt-driver seems to take on even more humanity by dying at the hands of his actions, rather than taking on the Hollywood immortality that seems to be bestowed upon so many action characters.