Best exit by a character in a film

[erwin]

*** spoiler ***

John Wayne in The Searchers

(edit: the extended exit)

[Incandenza]

Best exit by a character in a film

That is the correct answer.

[matt j]

Best exit by a character in a film

I dunno, Rick and Captain Renault is right there.

[Guest]

Best exit by a character in a film

"I love you."

"I know".

And not coincidently, the line was not written by George Lucas. The prick.

[linus]

Best exit by a character in a film

If you're going to use Star Wars exit quotes, then, "evacuate? In our moment of triumph?" has got to be in there.

[diggedy derek]

Best exit by a character in a film

The Third Man, I'd argue.

[jason voorhees]

Best exit by a character in a film

DD, please explain the rules. Living ? Dying ? What does "exit" mean ?

[diggedy derek]

Best exit by a character in a film

Well, I'm not the boss, but the end of The Third Man has one of the most poignant and elegant exits of one of the main characters.... it's how they leave the scene, cinematically, and it's perhaps the equal of the Harry Lime scene.

Damn, I want to watch that film again now.

[erwin]

Best exit by a character in a film

jason voorhees wrote:

please explain the rules

The rules are as follows:

1. There are no rules.

2. See no. 1

[jason voorhees]

Best exit by a character in a film

No, Erwin, because then it's best death scene vs best last scene in a film vs best poignant exit-stage-left.

Being that it's Best Exit Stage Left, I'll have to go with Third Man and it's son Miller's Crossing.

Also good are "the job, the family, the fuckin big television, the washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electrical tin opener" scene in Trainspotting, Harmonica riding past Cheyenne in Once Upon A Time In The West, and the final clean-up face-wipe and "Game OVER !" door slam of Saw.

[Wyatt Earp]

Best exit by a character in a film

diggedy derek wrote:

Well, I'm not the boss, but the end of The Third Man has one of the most poignant and elegant exits of one of the main characters.... it's how they leave the scene, cinematically, and it's perhaps the equal of the Harry Lime scene.

Damn, I want to watch that film again now.

Yes. Yes. What he said there. The Third Man wins this one, by even more of a distance than it wins the entrance one. Which it also wins.

Miller's Crossing's second, all right.

[Sean of the Shed]

Best exit by a character in a film

I always liked Andy Dufresne's(Tim Robbins) exit from the Shawshank Redemption, certainly the first time you see the film. You are given no clue as to what he is up to ( I know it's an escape movie, but the method is kept from you right to the moment of discovery). On the morning of his departure you are under the impression he may have killed himself, and even when you get to see inside the cell you still wonder how he got out until you get the same WTF moment that Warden Norton gets when he throws the chess piece through the poster covering the hole.

[De Geas Clean Linen]

Best exit by a character in a film

steaua power wrote:

"I love you."

"I know".

And not coincidently, the line was not written by George Lucas. The prick.

The line was improvised by Harrison Ford. Mark Hammill admitted that during the first Star Wars movie, Ford, Fisher and himself had to fill in a lot of the blanks with regards to dialogue themselves...

The scene was supposed to go like this:

"I love you"

"I love you too"

Irvin Kirschner didn't like it and tried to do the scene a bunch of different ways with little success. In the end he said to Ford:

"Listen, don't think about it. Just do it. ACTION!"

And thats what Harrison Ford came up with...

[De Geas Clean Linen]

Best exit by a character in a film

Oh, and if we're doing great final scenes...

"Nice shootin' son, whats your name?"

"Murphy"

[RobW]

Best exit by a character in a film

Off the top of my head I can think of Withnail and Roy Batty in Blade Runner. Love Harry Tuttle's exit from Brazil too.

[G-Man]

Best exit by a character in a film

The worst exit has to be that of Max/Christopher Bailey in the otherwise brilliant Once Upon A Time In America. Entirely unsatisfying and implausible.

[Purves Grundy]

Best exit by a character in a film

The Third Man is an excellent choice. Another one that I find very very affecting is the un-named German squaddie right towards the end of Downfall.

"Sorry, I'm not going anywhere".

[trimster]

Best exit by a character in a film

Oddjob in "Goldfinger".

[adams house cat]

Best exit by a character in a film

Alan Ladd - 'Shane'.

Yes for 'The Third Man'

James Cagney - 'White Heat'

[Guest]

Best exit by a character in a film

Kowalski - Vanishing Point

[Mighty Mudhsuden]

Best exit by a character in a film

When the French bloke waves from the train in French Connection

[Guest]

Best exit by a character in a film

Mary Astor in The Maltese Falcon.

[Guy Profumo]

Best exit by a character in a film

George Carlin - "They do get better"