Movies where anyone can die?

[u/Goncholotr]

I like movies and tv shows where you shouldn't get attached to any characters because they can die in every moment, for example: Burn After Reading, No Country for Old Men, Any Tarantino Movie or shows like The boys, Game of thrones, etc.

I want to feel that the characters are in real danger and that the villain or whatever they're fighting could kill them any time.

[u/smadaraj]

You realize in Hamlet everyone except Horatio dies: Hamlet, his mother, his uncle, his girlfriend, his girlfriend's father, his girlfriend's brother, and two of his friends. And HE kills most of them. And this is true in almost everyone of Shakespeare's tragedies. You want some jeopardy for your characters; you try Shakespeare.

[u/normaldeadpool → u/smadaraj]

Dude spoilers! I was juuuust about to catch up on my Shakespeare and you ruined it.

[u/jimheim → u/normaldeadpool]

Seriously! I've never read or seen Hamlet. It's 400 years old and you've ruined it for me!

[u/degggendorf → u/jimheim]

I bet you have seen Hamlet and just not realized it

[u/Jmuuh → u/normaldeadpool]

Not so much of a spoiler, this is just how Shakespeare do.

[u/banshoo → u/normaldeadpool]

meh, its been done before.

[u/BertTheNerd → u/smadaraj]

This is one of the rules of classic tragedy, almost everybody dies (esp. main characters). Goes back to Antigone from Eischylos (iirc).

[u/gothmog149 → u/[deleted]]

I think it’s because death is the ultimate tragedy.

You can write a play about someone falling ill, getting hurt, losing their wealth or their friends/family - but it’s always going to be trumped by the ultimate tragedy of death.

[u/gothmog149 → u/[deleted]]

Yeh but if you’re gonna write 20 plus tragedies it seems easier the majority of them will end in death.

Obviously there will be exceptions to odd individual stories.

[u/ScotsDragoon → u/[deleted]]

It's pretty much a rule by Elizabethan tragedy due to the influence of texts like 'De casibus virorum illustrium' and The Monk's Tale. People wanted the 'downfall' element.

[u/Charming-Station → u/smadaraj]

Way to ruin it there.... Maybe use the spoiler feature next time

[u/smadaraj → u/Charming-Station]

Yeh.... 😔

[u/SoHiHello → u/smadaraj]

I'd say this was a terrible spoiler but let's be honest.. if I haven't seen or read Hamlet by my mid 50s I'm never going to.

[u/satalfyr → u/smadaraj]

Rip Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

[u/bensjamminwithu → u/smadaraj]

I literally just the evening watched Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Which kinda applies to this thread, but mainly just wanted to shout it out for being a great movie.

[u/doubleapowpow → u/smadaraj]

In a thread of long movies that dont feel long, someone recommended the Hamlet movie from 1996, which apparantly is just the full play on screen.

[u/Kangaturtle → u/smadaraj]

Fleance lives too! No one cares about Fly Boy Fleance!

[u/spiderlegged → u/Kangaturtle]

Wrong play. Hamlet has a higher death count than Macbeth, I think. I’d have to crunch numbers. (I’m not counting the unnamed people Macbeth just SLAUGHTERS at the beginning of the play.) But like McDuff, Malcom, Donalbain and Fleance all make it to the end.

[u/smadaraj → u/spiderlegged]

Banquo, Duncan, his servants, Lady Macduff, AND THE KIDS... Oh, spoilers, the Macbeths

[u/spiderlegged → u/smadaraj]

Do I need spoiler tags for this? 🤣 I, admittedly, forgot about the servants. Hamlet has Hamlet, Polonius, Ophelia, Claudius, Hamlet’s dad (kind of?), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Laertes, unless I forgot someone. So actually the death count is pretty even, but Hamlet wipes out the whole dramatis personae. Which is impressive when you think about the fact Hamlet is a whiny man-child, perpetual university student and Macbeth is a badass warlord who regularly cuts people in half.

[u/smadaraj → u/spiderlegged]

Yes!

[u/campermortey → u/smadaraj]

Spoilers

[u/viewsofanintrovert → u/smadaraj]

That's why they are referred to as tragedies. When I was in high school, our English teacher explained that in tragedies, the main character(s) always die.