Saddest movie death?

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A spin-off from the "Saddest TV death?" thread, pretty self-explanatory.

I nominate Dobby from Harry Potter. He was a free elf...

Marley the dog on Marley & Me

The closest thing ever to making me cry from a movie

The dog from Eight Below (the movie where a group of dogs was left on the south pole). At least the other dogs survived

when chris dies in the end of ''into the wild'', my favorite movie of all times. It's especially sad since it's based on a true story

If I saw this movie in theaters people in the audience would probably tell me to bugger off. I did see the movie on HBO and couldn't stop crying at the end.

Jack Dawson (Titanic) The music during this scene is so moving. I used to play it on piano.

Mr Spock from Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan
He supresses his emotions and yet in his final act he dies so that his shipmates may live and tells Kirk, " I have been and always shall be your friend. Live long and prosper".

Optimus Prime from Transformers the Movie
"Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost". It's as if he knew he was going to die.

Dumbledore from Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
That's what you get when your friends with Harry Potter.

Sylvia Davies in Finding Neverland.

Wit

The death of 'Bull' McCaffrey from Backdraft, or at least his funeral in the end.

Rose dying (well, I think that she had) at the very end of Titanic (My Heart Will Go On has always had bad connotations for me, partly because of that, and partly because they played it during a high school awards ceremony at the point that I realised that I forgot to put my name down for!)

And while not actual deaths, there are two sequences that come to mind that are about conceptual deaths that make me weep.

The first is the ending of Nineteen Eighty-Four, where John Hurt's Winston Smith is staring at the image of Big Brother as the strains of Oceania 'Tis for Thee swell up. And he says three words that signal his complete death as a person. "I love you".

And the second, more recent one, is at the end of Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance, when Shinji goes absolutely simian-fecal-matter trying to save Rei from the bowels (pretty much literally) of the Angel Zeruel. There's the touching and melancholy addition of a Japanese song called Give Me Wings, and then there's the fact that Shinji, without thinking (or more importantly, caring), is causing the end of the world by his actions.

2nd Lt. Jack Geoghegan (We Were Soldiers) There were other major characters in the movie where their deaths were sad. Since dad was Persian Gulf Vet, it made me sad.

William Wallace (Braveheart)


Capt. John H. Miller (Saving Private Ryan)

SPOILERS!! !! !!




Izzie's death in the Fountain. -
You knew it was going to happen because the movie itself starts after she's died. And it's not that she died that makes me sad but that her husband Tom loved her so much and spent most of the time she had left in a lab trying to find a cure for her cancer. Her death scars him so much, that he becomes extremely thanatophobic and finds the cure for death but her death still tortures him.

Freeman Lowell's death in Silent Running-
Freeman, a former forest ranger, sets a nuclear bomb off on the freighter he was on, hurtling the last forest in existence floating away in it's ecodome headed for deep space with a lone robot caretaker.

From the same movie, but earlier-
Freeman learns from other crewmembers of the makeshift eco-frigates that American Airlines wants to cease the eco-dome operation and reemploy the frigates as freight haulers. The ecodomes containing the last of Earth's flora and fauna are to be destroyed. Freeman Lowell, a caretaker and former forest ranger is disturbed by this. He has few friends or close family members on Earth. The project, and the forests and animals are his life. And when they start destroying the domes, killing the last of Earth's flora and fauna, he snaps. That whole part of the movie had me in tears.

Darth Vader's death in ROTJ- I'm sure that since the movie is so well known, it needs no explanation.

1984-Winston's death. It's already been mentioned here, so I'll leave it at that.

I always found Jenny's death at the end of Forrest Gump to be very emotional.

The one that managed to get the most emotion from me was from The Shawshank Redemption where Brooks Hatlen hung himself.

John Coffey in the Green Mile (that movie also contains my most shocking movie death; Edward Dalaquar's execution)

Bruno and Shmuel in the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Agreed, but it is Edward Delacroix, not Dalaquar.

OHH!! !!