Sean Bean dies on screen a lot, but it might not be as much as Kenny from South Park. I mean really, that kid seems to die every other episode or so. Maybe not that much, but it’s still a lot. When you look at the list of movie deaths and the actors that have gone through the most though Sean Bean is about fourth on the list. The only ones ahead of him are John Hurt, who’s first, Bela Lugosi, and Vincent Price. Now, since those top three have passed away, Hurt passed on just last year from pancreatic cancer, Bean is number one on the chart. You might not feel that this is a legacy he wants to leave behind but let’s look at a few of his characters and then wonder just why he had to die.
In Goldeneye he was the villain and we all know that in a Bond film the villain almost has to die since to leave them alive is just way too much trouble. But to let him fall from a platform and then drop an entire metal structure on him seems kind of like overkill. But hey, he betrayed his country and his friend so really he kind of had it coming.
One of his greatest deaths was when he played the role of Boromir. Don’t deny it, this heroic effort at saving Merry and Pippin was something that made him something of a legend no matter that he didn’t make it out of the first movie. To let Boromir live might have been a little too dangerous and besides, Tolkien obviously had plans for his demise long ago. But taking that many arrows to the torso and still fighting on like an animal right up until the end was an awesome death.
In Don’t Say A Word he dies in a very messed up way as he’s quite literally buried alive. The flashback of a train coming at him is the effect of remembering how he killed the father of the girl who knew where to find the priceless gem he was after. The man had been a part of his crew but had doublecrossed him and as a result Bean’s character threw him off of a subway platform and let the train have its way with him. This killing was somewhat justified as he’d also kidnapped the daughter of the man that was working with the girl in a nearby psychiatric ward and had thus become involved with the whole mess.
One of the saddest and most recent deaths was that of Ned Stark on Game of the Thrones. The guy was attempting to depose a family on the grounds that they weren’t the legitimate rulers of Westeros due to a little thing call inbreeding that no one knew about. In other words the would be king, Joffrey, shouldn’t have been allowed to sit upon the Iron Throne for even a single day, let alone the time he spent as one of the Seven Kingdoms’ most brutal rulers.
When it comes to dying in his roles Sean Bean has got that act almost perfected.
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