Favorite Dad Movie Deaths

In honor of yesterday's Father's Day, we're doing best dad movie deaths of recent years (just doing favorite movie dads felt a little soft for this show). These are deaths where the character dying is directly connected to their role as a father in some way. What are your favorite dad movie deaths? I'm sure I forgot some great ones. Let me know.

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Episode Transcript

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Voyage. Welcome to watch this tonight. I'm your host, Dan Bettimore.

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I'm a produced writer of film andtelevision and now a podcast producer. And
despite having every streaming service, Inever know what to watch. So anytime
I watch something good, I talkabout it on this show. This way,
you'll never have the same problem Ido. I watched this tonight.
There's always something good to watch.Let's get started today on the show.
In honor of Father's Day, whichwill have been yesterday when this is released,

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I'm doing best dad movie deaths.I could have done best Dads,
but that felt a little soft.I just wanted to do something a little
more fed up, So I'm doingbest dad movie deaths of recent years.
You know, these are the onesthat came to mind when I thought about
this. I'm sure as ones I'mforgetting. I'd actually love to know what

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your favorite dad and movie deaths are. To me. A great dad movie
death is one where the character diesand their role as a father is a
huge emphasis of how and why theydie, like it's it's pertinent that they
are a father. So here aremy top three dad movie deaths. Number
three is Kevin Costner. By theway, obviously spoilers. Number three is

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Kevin Costner and Man of Steel.So Kevin Costner, first of all,
one of the great movie dads,just period. If you've seen Molly's Game,
he's really good in that, andhe's really serving up some dad stuff.
I think his personality just lends itselfto that. He has a real
grabby toss. He there's just areal dad quality about him. And a
Man of Steel and what is youknow, arguably the best part of the

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whole thing. I mean I didn't. I don't think I saw all the
Man of Steel you know, withHenry Cavill stuff, But I definitely saw
a Man of Steel. I definitelysaw, you know, a decent amount
of it, more than I maybesome of the other comic book movies of
recent years. And this idea thatKevin Costner sacrifices his life to make sure
that his adopted son keeps his secretand dies in that tornado and the way

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he with his hand and it's reallyunderplayed, which Kevin is very good at,
and it's just a beautiful scene.It's really to me, it speaks
to almost like what could have been. I think that the grounded revisionist take
on Superman. That was the ideabehind relaunching it. Not all of it
worked, but that I thought workedbeautifully, and so yeah, that's my

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number three. Pick Number two isJohn Krasinski. At the end of the
first A Quiet Place, I thinkthat I may have gone home and said,
I, you know, and bythe way, I have a great
relationship my dad. But I thinkI may have gone home and said,
we all want John Krasinski to beour dad. What's great about it is
that throughout the whole movie he's havingconflict with the daughter that he ends up

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communicating with right before he dies,and because their relationship is so conflicted throughout
the movie, when it finally paysoff for the end, and he has
this really like dialed in John Krasinskiintense look and he's looking at her and
he's signing to her, and it'sit's such a beautiful moment where he signs

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and he says you know that heloves you, I love you and all
that kind of stuff, and it'sit's just it really all lands it.
It feels like, oh, ithad to end this way. I did
a little bit of research into this, so in the original script, Krasinski's
character was supposed to sign just Ilove you, but the actress who plays
the deaf daughter suggested that he shouldalso sign I have always loved you,

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and that made Krazinski cry just whenshe suggested it, apparently, and the
actress who plays his daughter said thatin an interview with met T she said,
at the end, when he signsI love you, I said,
I think he needs to say I'vealways loved you because that covers a difficult
period. Then when I suggested that, he cried, I don't you know.

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It's that movie is so good.Krazinski is so good in it.
Quiet Place Part two I thought wasreally good as well. It almost feels
like there was such momentum off ofthat. It felt in that moment like
John Krasinski could do anything he wanted. It, could be the star of
any movie, could direct any movie. It just felt like anything this guy
I wanted to do was on thetable in front of him. So A
Quiet Place was in twenty eighteen.After A Quiet Place, he does A

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Quiet Place par two, which againI thought was good. And then he's
read Richards and Doctor Strange and theMultiverse of Madness. He does a voice
in DC League of Super Pets.He's Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan on Amazon and
that's kind of it. A QuietPlace Day one that's in post, but

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he only produced it. He hasa movie called Imaginary Friends that he acts,
directs, to produce, and wrotethat's coming up, so that movie
is currently in post. Comedy dramafamily follows a young girl who goes through
a difficult experience and then begins tosee everyone's imaginary friends who've been left behind
as their real life friends have grownup. So that's a pretty different kind

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of movie then the Quiet Place.Obviously it's interesting, you know, I
don't know, I feel like there'sthere was opportunity for more. I you
know, I like the Jack Ryanseries on Amazon, but I think it's
sort of like a programmer, right, It's not a sensational thing that's on

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the tip of everybody's tongue. Andyou know, I'm sure there's Imaginary Friends
movie will be good. But Ifeel like the promise that he showed with
the two Quiet Place films, likeif they were off of those two movies,
if they were like John Krasinski isdirecting, Like let's say they make
a third Dune Jaggers, he's doingDune three, you wouldn't be that shocked

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at that time. As time haspassed, I think that's sort of going
away a little bit, so itterallysee what happens. I think he's had
a really like a fork in theroad of his career. If the next
movie doesn't go over like Gangbusters,I think that feeling that he could literally
do absolutely anything he wants to mightsort of temper off a little bit.

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And again it's it's not knocking him. I think it's incredible, but it's
saying that, like that moment intime where it felt like, if they
announced he was directing any movie,you would believe it. If they announced
he was starting in literally any movie, you would believe it. That there's
a strike while the iron is hotmoment there that I feel like maybe could
have been taken advantage of a bitmore, but you know, maybe it

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just did. Some time is realthat literally that scene might be the high
water mark of his entire career.It's just an incredible moment. And then
my Number one, and this isbasically most likely because I've just recently watched
it, is Oscar Eyes in Dune. What makes it a good like Dad.
Death is that Oscar Isaac. It'sestablished earlier in the movie. He's

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talking to Timothy Shaalomay, and TimothyShaaloma basically says, Dad, what if
I'm not the future of House ofTreatise And Oscar Isaac says, a great
man doesn't seek to lead, he'scalled to it. But if your answer
is no, You'll still be theonly thing I ever needed you to be,
my son, which she just totallylets him off the hook basically,

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which is great, that's great dadstuff. And then when he does die,
he goes out like a boss.He is completely naked. He's sitting
there in front of Skelln scars Guard'scharacter. Apparently he did an interview with
Yahoo where he said he was wearinga cock sock quote and so I have
not read the original book. Apparentlythat's in the book like that with him

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being naked. He said, hehas been so buttoned up and in control
the whole movie, and suddenly he'sjust this vulnerable Christ like figure that's about
to be sacrificed. I thought itwas shot so beautifully, which that speaks
to the way it's framed, right, is sort of in repose and the
way it looks like on the screenyou can see where he would kind of
come to that conclusion, and he'sgoing out defiant. Still he has the

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false tooth that when he bites downon it, it admits a poison.
And so it's like, even whenhe goes out, he's still strong,
he's still fighting back. And Ithink that even though his son doesn't see
him die, the sort of effecton the whole movie is that we know,
and I think it sort of hasa transposition, like we sort of
know that his strength and his willingnesscontinue to fight. We see that carried

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forward in the spirit of his son. So like at the end of the
movie, Becca Ferguson basically says,hey, we can run off, we
can leave the planet, and TimothySchamay's like, no, we're not doing
that. You know, Dad broughtus here. We're doing this. We're
fighting back, and so that allis transferred in the rest of the movie.
That is the show for today.Those are my three Dad movie deaths.

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Favorite I guess for lack a bitof word, I'd love to know
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