ccbaxter Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 What are your favorite movie endings and why do you like them? One of mine is Roman Holiday, for how much emotion is conveyed with so few spoken words. And another is The Apartment for Shirley MacLaine's great last line; it's a wonderful confession of love without sentimentality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 I love the ending of "The Big Sleep" as Bogie and Bacall sit there looking out the window waiting for the cops. The siren gets louder and louder; he watches her looking out the window, then she sees him looking at her...the music swells...great. "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" where Lizabeth Scott & Van Heflin are driving away from death and destruction in Iverstown. "Don't look back," says Heflin. "Don't ever look back. You remember what happened to Lot's wife." "Whose wife," says Scott. "Sam's wife," he says. "Sam's wife," repeats Lizabeth as they drive off with the projected back screen behind them. "Casablanca" shows Bogey and Claude Rains walking off into the foggy mist of a beautiful friendship while Norman Bates in "Psycho" stares wryly at the camera (a tad cross-eyed) while "Mam" tells us: "...I wouldn't even hurt a fly." Then there's the skeletal image softly superimposed over Norman's face as the car with poor Marion's body is being dredged up. Indulge me one more please...Norma Desmond ready and walking into her close-up deranged... demented...A STAR!!! I love fade-out Aaah the movies. You gotta love 'em!! Nice question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccbaxter Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 Those are great CineMaven. I have to add another one, Some Like it Hot...."Nobody's perfect!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCerini Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 How about: "Smithy........Paula" --Gus Cerini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garth Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Sunset Boulevard ending !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry_W Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Hannah and Her Sisters. -- Terry Wallace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visualfeast Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 I like the ending of MEMENTO...it ends where it started, and opens with the end...greagt film! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccbaxter Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 The wedding scene of The Best Years of Our Lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 I'm loving that ending, the music and Teresa Wright and Dana Andrews hooking up professing their love. The music swelling gets me. It'll be on Tuesday nite at eight (NY time) as will "All the King's Men" (at 10:00pm) with a fantastic performance by Mercedes McCambridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelluloidKid Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 The ending of "Breakfast at Tiffany's"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 The endings of "Cinema Paradiso" and "To Kill a Mockingbird". Cinema Paradiso ending speaks to the film lover in all of us. and "Mockingbird's" ending, never has the backlot felt more universal as when Miss Jean Louis Finch walks Mr. Arthur Radley home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virginia1995 Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I am such an Awful Truth fan, and that is my favorite ending. That or My Girl Friday. -virginia1995 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bargar Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Casablanca - My all time favorite movie. And..my favorite ending. Out of 3 different endings, this had to be the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skimpole Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Yellow Submarine Help! The Godfather I and II Casablanca Fanny and Alexander Chinatown Splash (the most romantic possible) A Man Escaped Angel Heart The Usual Suspects Ordet Se7en A very Long Engagement Andrei Rublev The Mirror The Shining A.I. Voyage in Italy The Vanishing (original version) Children of Paradise Notorious Bound Dead Man L'Argent The Spirit of the Beehive Stalker Some Like it Hot Jeanne Dielman, 2300 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Inner Space Magnolia Clue I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bio47 Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 MUNICH. That last shot said it all. When Geoffrey Rush and Eric Bana are having a disscussion of the senselessness of war and murder, Spielberg has them in front of a building but you do not know where and then he continues the conversation while pulling away the camera revealing The World Trade Center Towers. A stunning moment that made so much sense of how all this is so senseless. God bring them home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webestang Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 The Day the Earth Stood Still.....What an ultimatum...!!! The Italian Job..(No, not the crappy remake)..the bus in just hanging on that cliff... The Searchers....Great ending shot...!!!! Frenzy...."Why Mr. Rusk, you're not wearing your tie." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccbaxter Posted February 9, 2008 Author Share Posted February 9, 2008 Walter Matthau's reaction shot at the end of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three makes for a priceless ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 The Front, with Woody Allen, directed by Martin Ritt. I don't want to be a spoiler, so I'll just say that I love the ending.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 If you can hang out until midnight..."The Awful Truth" will be on. What a funny film. "Go on honey...truck it!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankGrimes Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 BEWARE: VISUAL SPOILERS AHEAD Here are four of my very favorite endings: Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccbaxter Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 Wow Frank, those stills are great. I haven't seen The Wild Bunch yet, but love all the others. Some great endings to some great films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Lovely, Frank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 I like my movie endings nice and dramatic, don't you? I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang- Helen: Jim, why haven't you come before? Jim: I couldn't, I was afraid to. Helen: But you could have written. It's been almost a year since you escaped. Jim: But I haven't escaped. They're still after me. They'll always be after me. I've had jobs but I can't keep them. Something happens. Someone turns up. I hide in rooms all day and travel by night. No friends. No rest. No peace. Helen: Oh, Jim! Jim: Keep moving. That's all that's left for me. Forgive me, Helen. I-I had to take a chance to see you tonight. Just to say good-bye. Helen (She hugs him with a look of intense suffering and pity on her face): Oh, Jim. It was all going to be so different.Jim: It is different. They've made it different....(A door slams) (He whispers) I've gotta go. Helen: I can't let you go like this! Jim: I've got to. Helen: Can't you tell me where you're going? (He shakes his head no and stares wildly at her.) Will you write? (He backs up and again shakes no.) Do you need any money? (He again shakes no.) But you must, Jim. How do you live? I steal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Oh fine. I guess I AM a sentimental weenie, because I thought of another weeper. Now, Voyager- "Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankGrimes Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Hi, CCBaxter -- Wow Frank, those stills are great. I haven't seen The Wild Bunch yet, but love all the others. Some great endings to some great films. The Wild Bunch is one of my favorite films and the ending is quite powerful and very emotional. It's a film about loyalty. Hey, Sentimental Weenie -- Lovely, Frank. Ohhh, why did you have to include the comma? Oh fine. I guess I AM a sentimental weenie, because I thought of another weeper. It surely looks to be the case. But that's okay, you exhibit fine taste most of the time. I've got two words for you: Orson Welles. That'll work. I haven't seen any of the films you chose, although How Green Was My Valley and Goodbye, Mr. Chips are getting close for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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