{"id":150843,"date":"2019-09-26T13:43:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T17:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=150843"},"modified":"2021-07-28T00:08:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T04:08:01","slug":"present-tense-death-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=150843","title":{"rendered":"Present Tense: Death Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/GFNM.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/GFNM.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-150844\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>William Holden, &#8220;Sunset Boulevard&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>For my next &#8220;Present Tense&#8221; column at <i>Film Comment<\/i>, I wrote about a long-time obsession &#8211; which I have covered from time to time here on my site: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmcomment.com\/blog\/present-tense-the-death-scene\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Actors performing death scenes<\/a>. And a tribute to those who do it really really well. <\/p>\n<p>Death scenes discussed: <\/p>\n<p>Brian Blessed&#8217;s hard to top death scene in <i>I, Claudius<\/i><br \/>\nJanet Leigh in <i>Psycho<\/i><br \/>\nThe child dying in the street in <i>Once Upon a Time in America<\/i><br \/>\nWilliam Holden in <i>Sunset Boulevard<\/i><br \/>\nMarlon Brando in <i>The Godfather<\/i><br \/>\nShirley MacLaine in <i>Some Came Running<\/i><br \/>\nWarren Beatty\/Faye Dunaway in <i>Bonnie and Clyde<\/i><br \/>\nMeryl Streep in <i>Ironweed<\/i><br \/>\nJensen Ackles throughout <i>Supernatural<\/i><br \/>\nJames Cagney in <i>Roaring Twenties<\/i> (my #1 favorite death scene) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Holden, &#8220;Sunset Boulevard&#8221; For my next &#8220;Present Tense&#8221; column at Film Comment, I wrote about a long-time obsession &#8211; which I have covered from time to time here on my site: Actors performing death scenes. And a tribute to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=150843\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4],"tags":[319,310,1684,355,1307,339,467,2262,133,335,2541,1789,1324,302,471,2263,1382,1277,292],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150898,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150843\/revisions\/150898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}