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Are these the first two widely popular movies where the Hero's lose at the end?

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Cool Hand Luke came to mind immediately. I'm sure there have to be others.

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I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] EasyRider. If you have the DVD, you HAVE TO watch the version with the directors explaining every scene. It will make you happy. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]Kyle

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weird you made this thread, i have watched both of those movies about 5 times each in the last week.

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Taxi Driver is awesome. Does it fit this mold?

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Requim for a Dream. Not the first, but everyone loses in this one.

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Taxi Driver is awesome. Does it fit this mold?

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No.

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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

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Bonnie and Clyde (1967).

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Let's take it back to 1933 with King Kong. Or how about The Hunchback of Notre Dame made in 1923 with Lon Chaney?

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Instead of the hero's, 'losing' - i'm into the villians, 'winning'. ex. Seven, Usual Suspects, Fallen, Suicide Kings.

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"Butch" Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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the cincinati kid

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Depends what you mean by 'hero'.

Happened all the time to the leads in the early gangster films (White Heat, Scarface, etc)

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i haven't seen easy rider. i love people like you.

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if you can't discuss the end of a movie 30 years after it's release, when can you?!

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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.

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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.