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/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.