27 Chad Feldheimer – Burn After Reading (2008) – 44 points
(2 of 14 lists. Highest ranking - #2 Space)
26 Paul Allen – American Psycho (2000) – 45 points
(2 of 14 lists. Highest ranking - #3 Anais.whatever)
Two that were on my runner-up, but didn't make the cut (I'm starting to fear that most of my list simply won't get in this time around).
Chad's was almost heartbreaking, he was among the only friendly and genuinely helpful people in the movie. Of course, that just made the film that much blacker, and overall I love it for that. Plus, this death was a great crowd bit when I saw it in theaters. People were just totally blindsided by it; one moment they were laughing at his discovery, and a split second later gasping at the gore.
And Paul Allen's is such an endlessly re-watchable scene (maybe not as much as the business card scene, but close). Funny, grisly, and bizarre, it works perfectly for the movie. It, like the rest of the film, is considerably less gory than the book (that book is... wow. Seriously, it's something else in terms of the red stuff), but I'm OK with that. Lets them play up the crazy an satire angles. Good scene that's essentially a meme now (seriously, go to the youtube video for Hip to be Square. It's just pages and pages of "Try getting a table at Dorsia now you son of a bitch!"*)
*Inside joke: Upon watching the scene in The Dark Knight where Bruce meets Rachel and Harvey in the restaurant (and proceeded to mention how he owned it), my friends and I smiled: he finally made it to Dorsia.