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KaneKungFu123
11-12-2005, 09:54 PM
Are these the first two widely popular movies where the Hero's lose at the end?
TheMainEvent
11-12-2005, 09:56 PM
Cool Hand Luke came to mind immediately. I'm sure there have to be others.
Cumulonimbus
11-13-2005, 12:34 AM
I /images/graemlins/heart.gif EasyRider. If you have the DVD, you HAVE TO watch the version with the directors explaining every scene. It will make you happy. /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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tdarko
11-13-2005, 12:40 AM
weird you made this thread, i have watched both of those movies about 5 times each in the last week.
TripleH68
11-13-2005, 01:22 AM
Taxi Driver is awesome. Does it fit this mold?
cpitt398
11-13-2005, 01:32 AM
Requim for a Dream. Not the first, but everyone loses in this one.
rusellmj
11-13-2005, 01:33 AM
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Taxi Driver is awesome. Does it fit this mold?

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No.
TheMainEvent
11-13-2005, 01:39 AM
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Requim for a Dream. Not the first, but everyone loses in this one.

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This is quite common today. Audiences are more accepting of "unhappy endings" than they were in the 50s/60s
AceHigh
11-13-2005, 01:45 AM
Bonnie and Clyde (1967).

imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061418/)
11-13-2005, 06:50 AM
Let's take it back to 1933 with King Kong. Or how about The Hunchback of Notre Dame made in 1923 with Lon Chaney?
trying2learn
11-13-2005, 12:20 PM
Instead of the hero's, 'losing' - i'm into the villians, 'winning'. ex. Seven, Usual Suspects, Fallen, Suicide Kings.
Robbe
11-13-2005, 02:11 PM
"Butch" Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
BDarch
11-13-2005, 02:12 PM
the cincinati kid
diebitter
11-13-2005, 02:16 PM
Depends what you mean by 'hero'.

Happened all the time to the leads in the early gangster films (White Heat, Scarface, etc)
astroglide
11-13-2005, 04:34 PM
i haven't seen easy rider. i love people like you.
trying2learn
11-13-2005, 04:36 PM
if you can't discuss the end of a movie 30 years after it's release, when can you?!
astroglide
11-13-2005, 04:54 PM
it's worse to do it with old movies. call me crazy, but i haven't seen every popular/classic movie that was made before i was born.

if you went out on a city street and started polling people, how many more people do you think would know the end to the sixth sense than easy rider? my guess is about 80 billion.
Cumulonimbus
11-13-2005, 05:13 PM
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i haven't seen easy rider. i love people like you.

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Dude. A life cannot be complete without Easy Rider. I recommend you go out and buy the DVD from Hastings for $12 today. It is Sunday.