Favorite Dad Movie Deaths

0:01 Voyage. Welcome to watch this tonight. I'm your host, Dan Bettimore. I'm a produced writer of film and television and now a podcast producer. And despite having every streaming service, I never know what to watch. So anytime I watch something good, I talk about it on this show. This way, you'll never have the same problem I do. 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, which will have been yesterday when this is released, 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 doing best dad movie deaths of recent years.

1:00 You know, these are the ones that came to mind when I thought about this. I'm sure as ones I'm forgetting. I'd actually love to know what your favorite dad and movie deaths are. To me. A great dad movie death is one where the character dies and their role as a father is a huge emphasis of how and why they die, like it's it's pertinent that they are a father. So here are my top three dad movie deaths. Number three is Kevin Costner. By the way, obviously spoilers. Number three is 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, and he's really serving up some dad stuff.

1:45 I think his personality just lends itself to that. He has a real grabby toss. He there's just a real dad quality about him. And a Man of Steel and what is you know, arguably the best part of the whole thing. I mean I didn't. I don't think I saw all the Man of Steel you know, with Henry Cavill stuff, But I definitely saw a Man of Steel. I definitely saw, you know, a decent amount of it, more than I maybe some of the other comic book movies of recent years. And this idea that Kevin Costner sacrifices his life to make sure that his adopted son keeps his secret and dies in that tornado and the way he with his hand and it's really underplayed, 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 idea behind relaunching it. Not all of it worked, but that I thought worked beautifully, and so yeah, that's my number three. Pick Number two is John Krasinski. At the end of the first A Quiet Place, I think that I may have gone home and said, I, you know, and by the way, I have a great relationship my dad. But I think I may have gone home and said, we all want John Krasinski to be our dad. What's great about it is that throughout the whole movie he's having conflict with the daughter that he ends up communicating with right before he dies, and because their relationship is so conflicted throughout the movie, when it finally pays off for the end, and he has

3:15 this really like dialed in John Krasinski intense look and he's looking at her and he's signing to her, and it's it's such a beautiful moment where he signs and he says you know that he loves you, I love you and all that kind of stuff, and it's it's just it really all lands it. It feels like, oh, it had 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 I love you, but the actress who plays the deaf daughter suggested that he should also sign I have always loved you, and that made Krazinski cry just when she suggested it, apparently, and the actress who plays his daughter said that in an interview with met T she said, at the end, when he signs I love you, I said, I think he needs to say I've always loved you because that covers a difficult period. Then when I suggested that, he cried, I don't you know.

4:12 It's that movie is so good. Krazinski is so good in it. Quiet Place Part two I thought was really good as well. It almost feels like there was such momentum off of that. 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 the table in front of him. So A Quiet Place was in twenty eighteen. After A Quiet Place, he does A Quiet Place par two, which again I thought was good. And then he's read Richards and Doctor Strange and the Multiverse 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 Quiet Place Day one that's in post, but he only produced it. He has a movie called Imaginary Friends that he acts, directs, to produce, and wrote that's coming up, so that movie is currently in post. Comedy drama family follows a young girl who goes through a difficult experience and then begins to see everyone's imaginary friends who've been left behind as their real life friends have grown up. So that's a pretty different kind of movie then the Quiet Place. Obviously it's interesting, you know, I don't know, I feel like there's there was opportunity for more. I you know, I like the Jack Ryan series on Amazon, but I think it's sort of like a programmer, right, It's not a sensational thing that's on the tip of everybody's tongue. And you know, I'm sure there's Imaginary Friends

5:46 movie will be good. But I feel like the promise that he showed with the two Quiet Place films, like if they were off of those two movies, if they were like John Krasinski is directing, Like let's say they make a third Dune Jaggers, he's doing Dune three, you wouldn't be that shocked at that time. As time has passed, I think that's sort of going away a little bit, so itterally see what happens. I think he's had a really like a fork in the road 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 might sort of temper off a little bit. And again it's it's not knocking him. I think it's incredible, but it's saying that, like that moment in time 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 hot moment there that I feel like maybe could have been taken advantage of a bit more, but you know, maybe it just did. Some time is real that 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 is basically most likely because I've just recently watched it, is Oscar Eyes in Dune. What makes it a good like Dad.

7:03 Death is that Oscar Isaac. It's established earlier in the movie. He's talking to Timothy Shaalomay, and Timothy Shaaloma basically says, Dad, what if I'm not the future of House of Treatise And Oscar Isaac says, a great man doesn't seek to lead, he's called to it. But if your answer is no, You'll still be the only thing I ever needed you to be, my son, which she just totally lets him off the hook basically, which is great, that's great dad stuff. 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's character. Apparently he did an interview with Yahoo where he said he was wearing a cock sock quote and so I have not read the original book. Apparently that's in the book like that with him being naked. He said, he has been so buttoned up and in control the whole movie, and suddenly he's just this vulnerable Christ like figure that's about to be sacrificed. I thought it was 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 screen you can see where he would kind of come to that conclusion, and he's going out defiant. Still he has the false tooth that when he bites down on it, it admits a poison.

8:15 And so it's like, even when he goes out, he's still strong, he's still fighting back. And I think that even though his son doesn't see him die, the sort of effect on the whole movie is that we know, and I think it sort of has a transposition, like we sort of know that his strength and his willingness continue to fight. We see that carried 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 Timothy Schamay's like, no, we're not doing that. You know, Dad brought us here. We're doing this. We're fighting back, and so that all is transferred in the rest of the movie. That is the show for today. Those are my three Dad movie deaths.

8:56 Favorite I guess for lack a bit of word, I'd love to know what yours are. You can always reach me at benmore down on Twitter. Watch this then on Instagram, watch This Night podcast on TikTok, or you can join our Facebook group. If you enjoy the show, please take twenty five seconds and leave us a five star rating and a review on Apple Podcasts. That is the best way to support the show. That is the podcast for today. Until next time, Bye bye