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The World Of Men Will Fall, And All Will Come To Darkness: The Sean Bean Death Reel

By Harry Hanrahan | Posted Under Videos | Comments (64)

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Everyone knows that Sean Bean is, in fact, the balls. In addition to being Boromir, Ned Stark, and 006, the man has had unnumerable classic roles, yet has flown mostly under the radar for much of his career. But if you need a tough but good looking dude to glower menacingly and hurt people, either for the angels or the devils, then Sean Bean is your man.

The downside is that, well, he dies a lot. A LOT. It’s like he entered the extra lives code and is determined to use every single last damn one of them. And thus, the wickedly brilliant Harry Hanrahan has given us this most precious of gifts — an entire video dedicated to nothing but Sean Bean death scenes. It should go without saying that spoilers abound, so beware — it’s basically an entire video of spoilers. But it is so worth your while. Trust me on this. And by the end, you will have re-lived some true classics, not to mention some total heartbreakers. So now, we present to you, courtesy of our resident video genius Mr. Hanrahan, the Sean Bean Death Reel.

Please to enjoy, and give Harry your thanks. —TK


Here is a complete list of films listed in the video (again, spoilers):

00:07 - Don’t Say a Word (2001)

00:24 - Equilibrium (2002)

00:33 - Outlaw (2007)

00:39 - Airborne (1998)

00:43 - Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)

00:51 - Essex Boys (2000)

00:57 - Ca$h (2010)

01:02 - Patriot Games (1992)

01:14 - Black Death (2010)

01:28 - Henry VIII (2003)

01:39 - GT

01:45 - The Island (2005)

01:58 - Clarissa (1991)

02:03 - Caravaggio (1986)

02:08 - War Requiem (1989)

02:20 - The Field (1990)

02:41 - Lorna Doone (1990)

02:47 - Scarlett (1994)

02:56 - Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

03:14 - Goldeneye (1995)

03:30 - The Hitcher (2007)


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    Comments

    I watched Black Death recently and this was the thought that came across my mind. I have yet to see a film of him where he doesn't die.

    Posted by: Matt at July 14, 2011 12:08 PM

    • ::pours tankard of ale on cobblestones::

    Brilliantly done as always, hh!

    Posted by: branded at July 14, 2011 12:13 PM

    You scared the shit out of me with that graphic. And I don't even dig him like that.

    Posted by: Meander at July 14, 2011 12:15 PM

    The cows, oh my god.

    Posted by: Whalen at July 14, 2011 12:16 PM

    Y'know, he didn't die in Ronin, which is somewhat odd considering the tone of that movie...

    Posted by: D-Day at July 14, 2011 12:16 PM

    Now I need to go rewatch some episodes of Sharpe, where SeanBaby is guaranteed to not only live, but TRIUMPH in every single one.

    Posted by: cheryl at July 14, 2011 12:19 PM

    Jeez guys, you scared me there for a second.

    Posted by: Blake Shrapnel at July 14, 2011 12:25 PM

    Sweeeet...

    Posted by: superasente at July 14, 2011 12:26 PM

    Since this whole video is a spoiler it should go without saying but just in case: SPOILER WARNING

    I remember a Pajiban on Facebook saying they were depressed about Ned Stark dying in GoT so they were going to watch Black Death to get a Sean Bean fix. That must have been an awful disappointment.

    Posted by: Paultera at July 14, 2011 12:28 PM

    Death-by-horses-ripping-you-apart --- is there a special name for that? I actually had to stop eating my lunch while I watched this.

    Posted by: Stinky at July 14, 2011 12:29 PM

    Stinky, It's called quartering.

    Posted by: Paultera at July 14, 2011 12:31 PM

    I'm so embarrassed. It's been a while since I've had to think about quartering.

    Posted by: Stinky at July 14, 2011 12:36 PM

    Wow, he always dies horrifically too. Here's hoping his next character has a heart attack in the middle of the night.

    Posted by: Angeleno Ewok at July 14, 2011 12:41 PM

    ::slow clap::

    Bravo.

    Posted by: DeistBrawler at July 14, 2011 12:48 PM

    Sean Bean has about three or four ex-wives who are probably watching this with glee. I love the guy but everything I've read suggest that he doesn't really understand the word "commitment".

    Also, thanks for letting us know the order they appeared in because I swore after the first time I would NEVER EVER watch that scene from The Field EVER AGAIN.

    Posted by: PaddyDog at July 14, 2011 12:53 PM

    My parents always enjoyed the phrase, "I'll split you from your guggle to your zatch". They were much better parents than this implies.

    Posted by: Mrs. Julien at July 14, 2011 1:13 PM

    Holy crap. When I watched "Black Death" a couple weeks ago I couldn't help but think, "Damn, dude dies a LOT. Like maybe more than Michael Biehn and Bill Paxton." I think I was right. I think he has died more than them. I wonder if he holds a record. That's a lot of death scenes.

    Posted by: lubeg at July 14, 2011 1:17 PM

    Omigod I totally forgot he was in Equilibrium! And I've watched that movie many times because it's a favorite of my oldest son.

    Posted by: Az at July 14, 2011 1:19 PM

    HH - I salute you!

    Posted by: FyreHaar at July 14, 2011 1:39 PM

    Aw, now I just want to give Sean Bean a big hug and tell him it'll all be all right.

    Also, I totally would love to know his reaction to this video.

    Posted by: tamatha at July 14, 2011 1:45 PM

    He suffered a fate worse than death in Ronin, they made him not the balls.

    Posted by: csb at July 14, 2011 2:27 PM

    Sean Bean gets got alot. I wonder if every movie script where a pretty cool character dies gets sent directly to him. I want to be his agent.

    Posted by: Dingle Berry at July 14, 2011 2:29 PM

    I'd love to see a movie where Sean Bean gets top billing, but they actually kill him off before the opening credits and don't even do flashbacks. Just for funzies.

    Posted by: BWeaves at July 14, 2011 3:17 PM

    Yeah I had a moment of panic there too until I saw Harry Hanrahan's name up there. But thanks for the pretty header picture, mmm.

    Posted by: Anne At Large at July 14, 2011 3:19 PM

    I recently got into an argument with my mother, after I pointed out that Sean Bean dies in practically every film he's in. Her response was that more often than not, he's the bad guy and got his comeuppance.

    I honestly didn't care much for Bean until he was Ned Stark on GoT (because I have unresolved Daddy issues), but I think I'll make a point to watch/re-watch more of his films. A few of those I recognized and said "no shit, I guess he was in that!" but then there were others that completely threw me. I sure hope he didn't beat the crazy into those cows, because death by stampede is just no way to go.

    Posted by: beet salad at July 14, 2011 3:34 PM

    I've been cast in 5 plays in the last two years. I've died in all of them. But never, ever, as cool as Sean Bean does.

    Posted by: julie-liz at July 14, 2011 3:36 PM

    Saw every damn one. The best was The Essex Boys cuz Jason Locke really needed a shot gun blast to the face.

    On the Compleat Sean Bean site there is a header called Death By Cow which lists all of the grotesque ways he meets his maker. This was so much better. Thank you HH.

    Nothing is sexier than a Bean corpse.

    btw....Bean's character in the Hitcher quartered Sophie Bush's boyfriend so I suppose he deserved having his arms ripped out of his sockets.

    Posted by: kirbyjay at July 14, 2011 3:46 PM

    Ummm, could that actually happen? The quartering thing. Your arms and legs would actually detach from YOUR BODY???

    That was really unpleasant to watch. For serious. I need to google pandas sneezing.

    Posted by: kilmo at July 14, 2011 4:24 PM

    Thanks for perpetually taking one for your given team,Sean!

    Posted by: Revenant Shadow at July 14, 2011 4:40 PM

    kilmo:

    Not only can it happen, but forensic historical pathologists believe that before it happens, one might actually survive the ripping of ones arms from the body for several minutes and die a slow death of excruciating pain. Of course usually, the quartering was preceding by being partially disemboweled and then dragged through the streets by horses so if you just had the quartering, they were going easy on you.

    Posted by: PaddyDog at July 14, 2011 4:47 PM

    What movie is the song from?

    Posted by: Ian at July 14, 2011 5:13 PM

    I won't watch this for fear of being spoiler for something, but I just have to say I completely agree. Sean Bean is the balls.

    Posted by: Figgy at July 14, 2011 5:23 PM

    Posted by: Duvall at July 14, 2011 5:29 PM

    Whats the music? or should I know this?

    Posted by: e at July 14, 2011 7:07 PM

    @Paddydog
    Thanks for the info... I think.

    Seriously it's pandas sneezing and puppies for the rest of the night.

    Posted by: kilmo at July 14, 2011 7:29 PM

    The man bleeds good. As mentioned up yonder, the only thing I've seen him in where he doesn't die is Ronin, but he does get slapped around some. Watching the video I was reminded of a really old Dennis Miller joke, where as a child he's watching a movie with his Dad:

    Dennis: "Dad? Why did they kill that man?"

    Father: "'Cause he was a slack jawed fuckin' rat, son. And all rats must suck the pipe."

    Posted by: Groundloop at July 14, 2011 8:13 PM

    You can't say he has a dead end job... Oh wait :)

    Posted by: Snoopy at July 14, 2011 8:36 PM

    Did he die in National Treasure? I think he just went to jail, but the stupid took over my brain during that movie and I was partially traumatized by Nicolas Cage's ridiculous hair.

    He did not die in Anna Karenina. However, it was a terrible adaptation that could only have been improved by the erroneous addition of Vronsky's death.

    I think he also made it out alive in Flight Plan.

    So there's those.

    Posted by: Wednesday at July 14, 2011 9:02 PM

    He didn't die in the horrible, horrible Silent Hill.

    Posted by: JMS at July 14, 2011 10:46 PM

    The music is from the 'Dead Island' Videogame trailer released in February this year.

    Composed by Giles Lamb.

    Thanks for the comments guys, glad you all enjoyed it!

    Posted by: hh at July 14, 2011 11:02 PM

    Great minds! In last month's issue of Geek Speak Magazine, and likewise precipitated by GoT, we ran a piece called The Many Deaths of Sean Bean. I wish I'd had access to this awesome montage then -- I would at least have been able to save myself the pain of Caravaggio, War Requiem and-- ye gods! -- Airborne.

    Awesome stuff.

    Posted by: RachelHyland at July 14, 2011 11:25 PM

    And here I thought Christopher Walken held the record.

    Posted by: stryker1121 at July 14, 2011 11:49 PM

    I finished "Game of Thrones" last night, and all I could think at the end of the penultimate episode was, "Poor Sean Bean. Always the 006, never the 007." ("Always the Boromir, never the Aragorn," would also suffice.)

    Posted by: RobP at July 15, 2011 9:02 AM

    Maybe that's why he keeps dying: He's so damn good at it

    Posted by: Dekar at July 15, 2011 10:25 AM

    You've forgotten the "Death Race 2". It makes 22 deaths of Sean Bean.

    Posted by: Alex at July 15, 2011 12:37 PM

    He also survives in Troy, closing the film out with some narration, no less. The guy who plays Lord Commander Mormont from Game of Thrones is also in Troy, and if I remember correctly I think Bean is the one who actually kills him. To know for sure I'd have to watch it again, and we know that isn't going to happen.

    Posted by: Poopers at July 15, 2011 6:48 PM

    He didn't die in "Stormy Monday"...which is one of my faves...ahhh...Sting...Tommy Lee Jones and Melaine Griffith when she was a kitten...

    Posted by: Lala11_7 at July 15, 2011 8:28 PM

    Sean Bean is awesome! Damn you Game of Thrones for taking him away so soon! *shakes fist*

    Posted by: CyndiChainsaw at July 15, 2011 10:55 PM

    He didn't die in Lady Chatterley either. He hotly sailed off into the sunset with Lady Jane.
    (Connie)

    Sharpe not only triumphed in all of the Sharpe's but he also triumphantly triumphed in Sharpe's Triumph.

    He didn't die in Extremely Dangerous either. He seldom dies when he's a good guy, he's just usually a bad guy.

    Posted by: kirbyjay at July 16, 2011 7:38 AM

    I just read that he's playing the father in one of the Snow White movies... so the streak continues, I guess...

    Posted by: Leroy Grey at July 16, 2011 11:24 AM

    People actually disliked the video. How the fuck can you go wrong on 1.) an hh video, 2.) a video comprised of nothing but death scenes? Sean Bean death scenes, no less.

    Also, reiterating: the cows. omg.

    Posted by: duckandcover at July 16, 2011 11:37 AM

    Oh, HH, you are a genius. This was EPIC.

    Is Sean Bean the deadest guy in Hollywood? That's a lotta deaths.

    Posted by: Jelinas at July 17, 2011 2:57 AM

    Is Sean Bean the deadest guy in Hollywood? That's a lotta deaths.

    Posted by: Jelinas at July 17, 2011 2:57 AM

    I'm pretty sure Mel Gibson has him beat by a hair.

    Posted by: Uriah Creep at July 17, 2011 6:14 AM

    Nothing you say will convince me that Bean didn't do the Death By Cows thing just to fuck with us.

    Posted by: ScienceGeek at July 17, 2011 6:52 AM

    Sidebar: the Rettendon murders. Three movies about this event in a decade? [Essex Boys (2000), Rise of The Footsoldier (2007), and Bonded By Blood (2010)].

    Maybe our friends across the pond can fill me in: what's the draw of this story? Morbid fascination, given the brutality of the murders? Were the victims particularly compelling, or the circumstances? I hadn't heard of either the movies or the murders, so I'm wondering about the (pop-?)cultural impact.

    Posted by: Salieri2 at July 17, 2011 9:19 AM

    Good lord Sean Bean is an attractive man. I feel the need for a Sean movie marathon - will ffwd the dying bits - seen them all here. Can still remember seeing him for the first time in the Bond movie and my friend and I turned to each other in the cinema and said "who the hell is that!!". I have lusted after him ever since. Good work Harry.

    Posted by: Caz at July 17, 2011 10:00 AM

    It should be noted that he always dies hotly. Because the man is hot shit.

    Posted by: Ginger at July 17, 2011 7:03 PM

    He also dies in Death Race 2 and Age of Heroes - although his death in the latter isn't actually seen, but it is implied that he doesn't survive. That's 23 then.

    Posted by: lepsaxon at July 18, 2011 12:32 PM

    I guess that rules him out of taking over the Diehard franchise!!

    Posted by: Cunny Funt at July 18, 2011 1:25 PM

    Today...

    Today was a good day...

    A good day..

    *dies*

    Posted by: Uncommoner at July 19, 2011 2:24 AM

    Dunno if someone mentioned it, but in the list you missed Game of Thrones. 01:39-01:44


    But the video is awesome! :)
    Poor guy!

    Posted by: verbst at July 19, 2011 3:19 PM

    FYI: Getting ripped apart by horses is NOT called "quartering". It's called "dismemberment". Quartering is what happened to William Wallace in Braveheart. The correct term was "Drawn, Hanged and Quartered".

    It went something like this: the condemned was drawn to the execution site in a cart, so the townspeople could spit on him and pelt him with vegetables. He would then be hanged, but not for long enough to actually kill him. While hanging, he would be castrated (or "emasculated" as it was called) in front of the crowd, and then let down from the gallows, where he would be placed on a block, disemboweled, and chopped up into four pieces with an axe or a sword (hence "quartering").

    In the case of William Wallace, the four pieces of his body were taken to the four corners of England and prominently displayed for everyone to see. And his head was put on a pike on the Tower of London. But his balls? No one knows what happened to those...

    Posted by: Walter at July 19, 2011 10:22 PM

    It's been pointed out that Sean Bean also didn't die in Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief (he was Zeus), as well as in Troy and National Treasure.

    Great video!

    Posted by: Steve at July 29, 2011 4:40 PM

    Didn't he die in Lara Croft, Tomb Raider?

    Posted by: Ten at July 30, 2011 11:54 AM