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But then the film proceeds to a one-year-later epilogue that suggests Andy actually managed to fake his death and has simply assumed his Alter-Ego Acting persona full time. It's clearer in the screenplay, but this is eventually revealed to be part of a Video Will he left behind for his Cheerful Funeral.

Downplayed and played with in Man on the Moon, in that the Biopic is introduced by its own dead subject, Andy Kaufman (as played by Jim Carrey), in a Deliberately Monochrome prologue.

However, the shootout turns out to be a Fantasy Sequence, and O does survive. This seems to bear out in the final shootout when Ben, Chon, and O choose to overdose on morphine to die together after Ben is fatally wounded O's narration even gives a Call-Back to her original statement.

The film is narrated by O, who states that just because she's the narrator doesn't mean she survives to the end. The opening of Monsieur Verdoux, overlooking the Villain Protagonist's grave, features narration.Abe's narration continues up to the point where he intends to kill Jill the attempt goes wrong, he dies instead, and his narration ceases. Irrational Man is narrated by its two main characters, Abe and Jill, following the different points of view.Shallow Grave is narrated by David, who is the only one of the three main characters to die in the film.In this 1950 noir, the hero dies from a slow poison, but not before he finds his murderer and tells the story to the police. The audience doesn't find out the trope is in play until the very end though. Played with in Reversal of Fortune Sunny Von Bulow isn't dead, but she's in a coma.Subverted as it turns out he's revived after being shot through the heart, and the other two protagonists are killed instead. that he's going to die, and we see it happen. Toorop states at the beginning of Babylon A.D.John Hobbes' (Denzel Washington) opening monologue, where he states that he's "going to tell you about a time almost died", seems to point to the battle between him and Azazel in the climax, only to reveal the voiceover is Azazel in the body of a cat repeating the opening line. Both Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson's characters from The Bucket List.Considering his ghost emerges from his body shortly later, it avoids the "no explanation given" part.

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Brazilian movie Redentor opens with the protagonist lying among rubble as he narrates - though you don't know he's dead until the narrative eventually reaches that scene.Also subverted: Ace Rothstein is shown dying in a car bomb at the start of the film, but it is later discovered that he escaped with his life.Nicky Santoro narrates much of the film - not aware that his character is going to get whacked - and the second his character does, the narration gags violently and ends - leaving the audience wondering just who the hell he was talking to. It's intentionally not left very clear whether the main character lives or dies, last we see him his is in critical condition begging in narration to live, while everything goes black. Sunset Boulevard actually starts with Joe Gillis' ( William Holden) death he tells us his story in Flashback.

The narrator of the film American Beauty, who comes right out and tells us that we're going to see him die at some point.