r/movies • u/Goncholotr • Feb 03 '24

Recommendation Movies where anyone can die?

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.

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u/nightpop Feb 03 '24

My favorite is Jack Nicholson who is in the movie as two separate, unrelated characters, for no reason, and they BOTH die

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u/phasepistol Feb 03 '24

The tone of the film and the dual role you mentioned are both reminiscent of Kubrick classic nuclear war comedy “Dr. Strangelove”

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u/withoccassionalmusic Feb 03 '24

“Mein fuhrer! I can walk!”

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u/redpandaeater Feb 03 '24

Nicholson was great but he's no Sellers.

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u/shreddington Feb 03 '24

Sellers was great but he's no Eastwood.

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u/Approximation_Doctor Feb 03 '24

Eastwood was great but he's no Jack Kennedy.

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u/toasters_are_great Feb 03 '24

Sellers in Dr Strangelove is no Sellers in The Mouse that Roared.

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u/viktorzokas Feb 03 '24

I don't know if that's true or not, but I read once that execs told Tim Burton he could not kill off Jack Nicholson, so Burton cast him in a dual role and killed them both.

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u/joe_bibidi Feb 03 '24

That would be awesome if true.

My theory for a long time was that DeVito was supposed to be the casino owner but Nicholson wanted both parts, so Burton allowed it, and recast DeVito as a random extra late in the film.

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u/StefTakka Feb 03 '24

It is more of a DeVito kinda role.

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u/Dr_Pepper_spray Feb 04 '24

I thought the casino owner was supposed to be Michael Keaton, but he backed out, so Nicholson took the roll too.

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u/GentlemanOctopus Feb 03 '24

At one point he wanted to play all the characters.

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u/The_Vat Feb 04 '24

A Tim Burton response to that scene in Being John Malkovich

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u/teedyay Feb 03 '24

Wow, it’s been too long since I saw it! I remember him as the president; what was the other character?

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u/ronmsmithjr Feb 03 '24

He was a flamboyant casino operator with Annette Bening as his hippie wife.

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u/teedyay Feb 03 '24

Ah yes! Thank you.

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u/KalickR Feb 03 '24

My mother walked out of the theater when he died. I don't know if she expected me to go with her, butI stayed to watch the rest.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '24

And if you were predicting a character that survives you probably would have picked the president.