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[Image] DEATH (REPRESENTED) [Days of Heaven] Bill, Abby and Linda flee the city after Bill injures and possibly kills the factory foreman. The Farmer dies slowly after being stabbed by Bill. Bill is shot by the police and dies quickly. [The Thin Red Line] Unsurprisingly in a war film, many people are shown dying, including: All twelve of McCron's squad die, causing McCron to go insane; Dale shoots a Japanese prisoner of war in the back; Witt dies after luring the Japanese away from his company. Notable slow deaths include: Witt's mother, who dies calmly in Witt's flashback; Tella, who is disemboweled and to whom Welsh delivers morphine after Tella's medic is shot dead; Bead, who dies with Fife and Staros at his side; Keck, who dies after pulling the wrong pin on the grenade; possibly the wounded Coombs, whom Witt floats downriver near the end of the film. [Badlands] 
A total of eight people positively (or probably) die in this film (nine if you count Kit himself, whom Holly tells us is eventually electrocuted): Holly's dad, three bounty hunters, Cato, the two teenagers, and the person sent by helicopter to capture Kit (Kit fires at him and we see him fall). Notable are slow deaths: the dying fish Holly throws into the watermelon patch is still breathing; after Holly's dad shoots her dog, its chest still moves, implying that the dog did not die quickly; Holly's dad does not die instantaneously; Cato dies slowly and "existentially" (he doesn't pray, he doesn't show emotion--death doesn't seem to matter much to him. It's as if he's entered a realm where he's beyond caring as his looking at himself without expression in a mirror graphically portrays.).
Similarities in Malick's Films, Part I
Badlands