
It might be a little hard to remember but in the years after My So-Called Life and his post-Oscar win method actor recent heyday, there seemed to be almost a tradition in American cinema of Jared Leto dying or getting beat up — often brutally — in pretty much every film he appeared in.
Recommended VideosThankfully, Twitter user @raccooneyedgirl has put together an impressive thread that chronicles many of Leto’s most impressive horrible deaths and beatings that have graced the silver screen.
THREAD OF MOVIE SCENES WHERE JARED LETO DIES OR GETS SERIOUSLY INJURED 🧵 pic.twitter.com/EZVIEnPNtr
— raccy 🦝🧩 (@raccooneyedgirl) April 25, 2022She starts out with an absolute classic, Leto’s death by axe at the hands of serial killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. The oft-memed scene is practically unforgettable — and what a soundtrack!
Thin Red Line (1998)
Gunshot pic.twitter.com/LDf2UH5xDU
She then moves on to some bonafide sleepers. Here we see a pair of Leto’s death by gunshot scenes; an acrobatic murder exit in Panic Room and a fairly standard death by sniper fire in Terence Malick’s WWII meditation, The Thin Red Line.
jared leto in fight club isn’t real. he cant hurt you.
jared leto in fight club: pic.twitter.com/kyz2VMCCwy
Here are the results of the next scene in the thread, the near-operatic beating Leto receives at the hands of Ed Norton (or is it?) in Fight Club. The classics, unlike Leto’s characters, never die.
Lonely Hearts (2006)
Electric chair pic.twitter.com/L0hcrPJxxR
We then move into some more obscure territory again. Leto, as Alexander the Great’s lover, Hephaestion, passes away in the arms of Colin Farrell’s Alexander in Alexander. We then witness a particularly gruesome execution via electric chair in the under-the-radar Lonely Hearts.
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Loses his arm and dies from heroin overdose off screen pic.twitter.com/QP4TXmc6PP
Lastly, we see Leto die in a hail of gunfire comparable to Willem Dafoe’s death scene in Platoon in the Nic Cage arms-trafficking thriller Lord of War. Then, we see what is arguably Leto’s most moving death scene, his tragic heroin overdose in Darren Aronofsky’s gutting Requiem For a Dream.
Kudos to @raccooneyedgirl for keeping the traditions of great cinema alive!
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