{"id":2107,"date":"2009-07-03T01:04:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T01:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2009-07-03T04:19:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T04:19:02","slug":"manly_movie_dea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2107","title":{"rendered":"Manly Movie Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nInstapundit<\/a> leads me to a post on “The Top 10 Manly Movie Deaths of All Time,”<\/a> a great idea which pretty much sucks in execution because the person who wrote the post must be about 22 (#9 is the cartoon Optimus in the 1986 ‘Transformers’ movie!!)<\/p>\n

10 – Leon in The Professional (1994)
\n9 – Optimus Prime in Transformers: The Movie (1986)
\n8 – Tony Montana in Scarface (1983)
\n7 – The Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
\n6 – Bill in Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)
\n5 – Goose in Top Gun (1986)
\n4 – Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars (1977)
\n3 – Nick in The Deer Hunter (1978)
\n2 – William Wallace in Braveheart (1995)
\n1 – Apollo Creed in Rocky IV (1985)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s my list, which shares one with theirs:<\/p>\n

10 – Val Kilmer in Tombstone
\n9 – Nick Nolte in Who’ll Stop The Rain
\n8 – Clint Eastwood in Grand Torino
\n7 – Toshiro Mifune in Throne of Blood
\n6 – Burt Lancaster in The Killers
\n5 – David Carradine in Kill Bill
\n4 – Robert DiNiro in Heat
\n3 – Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner
\n2 – Jimmy Cagney in White Heat
\n1 – John Wayne in The Shootist<\/p>\n

It’s amusing to mine our memories of films to talk about lists like this, but lists like this matter, because in part they embody our models for behavior – good and bad – into iconic moments that we all carry around as a part of our culture.<\/p>\n

That’s why images like this are so powerful:<\/p>\n

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Because they embody idealized behavior.<\/p>\n

In the list I posted, all of the characters embody an idealized masculine attitude toward death – for better or worse.
\n–
\nUpdate:<\/i> It’s interesting how – in retrospect – my list is all about violent death; some senseless, some deeply meaningful. Because I certainly don;t envision my life ending in a hail of bullets (or arrows); I was planning something like a peaceful death surrounded by a large and loving family for whom I have provided and cared much of my adult life. Hmmm.
\n–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal lists his top 10 manly movie deaths and why they matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}