Happy-end mania

[thestonesfan]

Originally posted by Karl Lenin
I would like to see a movie which moves towards a forced happy ending and then suddenly the bad guy kills the good guy. Like if Bruce Willis had won in The Jackal.

Watch Seven.

 

[Stapel]

I agree ambigious ends are the best. Or ends that, apart from being happy or not, are really reveiling the plot of the movie. Usual suspects comes to mind. It all became clear to me, during the off-titling. Nothing was said. Just this guy walking there. A brilliant plot.

Whe an ambigious ending is just there to allow a part two, it is not as good of course!

 

[Yaype]

What are movies? I think, more than anything, they are an escape from reality. Who wants to go into a movie theatre and watch two hours of somebody's every day life?

That said, if you want to escape the daily drudgery of the rat race, would you prefer that escape to be one you leave feeling happy or sad? I think that that is the most basic reason why most movies have happy endings.

 

[nonconformist]

Originally posted by Hakim


Not really, that was the last scene with him IIRC.

What I meant is that he is killed halfway through, but then he returns in a return to a previous scree, leaving the audience with the sensation that he survived. That is what the film studio thought; as long as Travolta was there at the end, his character was still alive.
The only way to place Pulp Fiction into order, is to sit down, and to think it out logically.