Can you think of any??
A kid DID die in "Bridge to Terabithia" and "My Girl", but there must be more!!
-"Morello, do you wish to see... a miracle?"
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Grindhouse: Planet Terror (kid kills himself by accident with a headshot)
share"The" kid dies, or "a" kid dies?
There are plenty of each. I don't feel like naming them myself, however.
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Amityville II: The Possession
The little girl is shot and you see her leg twitch on the side of the bed, and the little boy is shot.
Le Roi Est Mort, VIVE Le Roi! - E N I G M A 3
Damn, I am going to not read this topic. Spoils too many movies... but I have one: Funny Games (US). I was REALLY surprised at that. Even though it from the start seemed like THAT kind of movie I guess I couldn't shake the expectation that the kid was going to make it somehow. Hollywood ALWAYS spares the kid.
shareFunny Games (US) wasn't a Hollywood film, it was a shot for shot remake of an Austrian film. That's why the kid died.
Yes, I know it was a remake (haven't seen the original movie though), and I knew it was directed by Michael Haneke and since I have seen other movies of his I knew not to expect a happy ending. BUT I have seen Hollywood remakes where they have changed certain details to please the American audience. So I figured it not completely unlikely that they would spare the kid.
I didn't know it was a shot-for-shot remake.
Gotcha. Technically, it wasn't a Hollywood production; it was distributed by Warner's independent branch. But yeah, it's a shot for shot remake.
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The kid dies in Star Wars: Phantom Menace.
shareThere are a number of films where kids die and can actually be seen doing so. What is your big interest, what's the idea? That there are not enough? If so, you might want to turn to reality and find that far too many kids die for various reasons - war, hatred, hunger etc.
If your questions aim at the fact, that it is not realistic that we see so few kids die in the movies, then perhaps we ought to bless film makers for it. Real life is harsh enough.
By the way, if you want to see a particularily disturbing movie about the death of child, watch "Es geschah am hellichten Tag" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051588/) if you can find it.
Rant over. Thanks for reading.
You might very well think that - of course I could not possibly comment.
Feast, one of the Deathwish movies.
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But it really bothered me.
That said, I do want to point out that in the original Gallico novel, there is a little boy, traveling with his sister, and his parents - he separates from them long enough to go to the john, and gets lost. Disappears, really, but at the end of the movie, he is not miraculously rescued.
I suppose when Irwin Allen did the movie, he decided that would be just too sad.
As I recall, in the novel (which is excellent) the boy drops through a hole in the floor and, most definitely, dies. Also, the sister is brutally raped (not kidding) by an unknown assailant. More terrifyingly still, but impossible to film, no emergency lights come on after the ship turns over and the whole of the escape is managed in the dark.
shareMWeber935: "As I recall, in the novel (which is excellent) the boy drops through a hole in the floor and, most definitely, dies. Also, the sister is brutally raped (not kidding) by an unknown assailant. More terrifyingly still, but impossible to film, no emergency lights come on after the ship turns over and the whole of the escape is managed in the dark."
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The novel was really more of a reflection on that era, late sixties, and how phony their lives all were and each and every one of them had to be picked apart mercilessly, even to the point of the Turkish stoker, Kemal, who was helping them. Since he couldn't speak English very well, they had to berate him themselves. "Oh, he'll just go back to some peasant farm village for the rest of his life."
As for Robyn, he went to relieve himself away from his mother and there was some lights on and they suddenly went out and there was a stampede of hysterical passengers and he was lost in this stampede.
At the end of the book, Mrs. Selby tried to see if he was in another rescue boat, but didn't find him. The conclusion was definitely he had died.
As for the movie, Robyn's death was obviously changed to not taking place because the book was just vague about it (yes, made for good reading, but wouldn't make for good movie-watching) especially with Eric Shea in the role. No one wanted to see him die.
And as for Susan's 'rape', after the attack, she held and consoled her rapist as he cried in her lap, as he thought she was a member of the crew. He fled into the ship soon after and Susan merrily joined the others.
The book actually ends with her hoping she is pregnant and she remembers the Irish village he said he was from and she wants to go there and find his parents and present unto them their grandchild of their son lost on the Poseidon.
Again, this was logic and thinking of that late sixties, if you will, hippie era.
Well, a Western with Henry Fonda titled "Once Upon A Time In the Old West"
He shoots and kills boy and a girl.
Also In "The Good Son"
Kid get's hanged in Enemy at the Gates.
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