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lucia-pacciola t1_j9ydqj9 wrote

Reply to comment by estine1979 in Any moments where movies kill off extras just so that the main characters can have the spotlight? by Extolord111

That makes sense, though, as the staff were closer to the source of the problem. The story we get is the story of the bystanders who weren't caught at ground zero and actually had a chance to escape.

I understand the OP to be asking about situations where there's a mixed group of actors - leads and supports - that narratively have equal chances of surviving. Like two soldiers in a trench. Grenade goes in the trench, who do you think eats it? It's always the supporting actor, never the lead.

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Extolord111 OP t1_j9zfa47 wrote

Yeah I'm talking something like that, just with extras that no one looks at. I also want to know about about moments where the extras just die and no one cares about them for the rest of the movie, like the Abydonian boys in Stargate, they just die and none of the main characters care. Yet when a side or main character dies, it's the biggest deal ever, like bro 10 of your friends just died. I see this killing extras thing a lot in military or sci-fi related movies.

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