Soul-Crushing Movie Deaths That Gave You Trust Issues

Beth March, Little Women

This great media tragedy has been so deeply written into society that it even became a joke on the show Friends. The saddest part of Louisa May Alcott's novel (and in the recent Greta Gerwig film adaptation) is Beth dying from scarlet fever before she got to grow up. This character was so pure that people had no idea how to react when she died. 

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The More You Know

  • Fantasia (1940) was originally a short called The Sorcerers Apprentice, but Walt Disney overspent on the score and decided to make it feature length film rather than waste money.
  • The bridge blown up by Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was prematurely detonated by a Spanish Army Captain. Upon learning of his mistake the Captain ordered his troops to rebuild the bridge, only for it to suffer another explosion once complete.
  • Nestlé supplied 1,850 bars of real chocolate for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
  • Toto was paid more than some of the humans in 'The Wizard of Oz'
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.