Re:Best death?
Star Trek TOS, ZardoZ, The Prisoner, and Brazil spoilers ahead! (Watch out for the Star Trek one, it’s a doozie! ;))
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Tough, off the top of my head…
I’m inanely tempted to say all those guys in Star Trek wearing the red shirts who we never really knew (one time bit parts) who predictably get killed. 🙄 And then there’s a group, the Eternals from [i]ZardoZ[/i], who are gunned down by the Exterminators in the film, but to specific individuals…
In sci-fi TV from [i]The Prisoner[/i]: Leo McKern’s No. 2 (Once upon a Time).
In the ultimate battle of wills, No. 2 locks himself away with No. 6 to learn why he resigned. Who will survive the ultimate test? There can be only one… and that one is 6. However, a “late No. 2” is resuscitated later… That was a close shave 😆
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And in film I’ll go with Sam Lowry at the end of [i]Brazil[/i] — he’s in a torture chamber, and a “[i]Python[/i]” is putting the “squeeze” on him, but he escapes through his imagination. We see him with a blank smile on his face at the end. A curiously happy ending. Some people say he was dead at the end which is why I include it, I think he’s fully escaped into his imagination — gone insane (another type of death?) Perhaps I could choose Harry Tuttle’s (De Niro) death in Sam Lowry’s dream sequence where he is consumed by paper work (literally).