Not your favourite movies - your favourite movie
endings. Twist endings, endings with famous quotes... post your favourite movie endings here. (Needless to say, if you haven't seen the movies there will be spoilers!)
I can think of a couple that I really like. One is the end of
Casablanca, where Rick has just shot Strasser and it seems as if he's about to be arrested... then Renault says "Round up the usual suspects", and tells Rick about the Free French forces in Brazzaville that he can escape to while Renault looks the other way. Renault's my favourite character in Casablanca - I like how fascinatingly morally-grey he is.
Another favourite of mine is the ending to the Monty Python movie
The Meaning of Life, where it comes back to the restaurant at the end and Gaston the waiter takes the camera on a long walk as the credits roll, before putting forth his own philosophy of "Try and make everyone happy everywhere you go"... then getting defensive and losing his temper, and shouting "Fuck off! Don't come following me!" before storming away as the end of the Galaxy Song fades in. Even though
The Meaning of Life is my least favourite Python film of the three, I think it has the best ending.
(OOC: You get the idea. Alternate endings to movies. Be creative - or, if you know of any ideas that actually got rejected during the making of the movie, maybe you can write that.
About the ones I wrote: the
Casablanca one was because the main flaw of the film, as I saw it, was that Renault does so complete a Heel Face Turn at the end for no good reason - I thought a better & more realistic ending would be for Renault to help Rick but not give up his cushy job as Prefect of Police, because it's not in his nature. And the one of
The Meaning of Life - that actually was considered as an ending but rejected. Someone edited it together and put it on YouTube (link is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQwk08TxdQ0) and I think it's much much better than the ending we got - plus the whole long-walk-following-the-waiter actually works really well when it's got credits rolling over it.)