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Midweek Movie Mouth-off: what movie ending would be ruined if the camera kept rolling?

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Warning: Spoilers for a few movies ahead (one of which is almost 50 years old so I’m not sure if it counts)

I read an interesting little factoid about the ending of the movie The Graduate recently. If you’ve never seen the movie, here’s the TL;DR: guy is seduced by an older married woman and proceeds to fall in love with the woman’s daughter. After the family is torn apart by the affair, he eventually gate-crashes the daughter’s wedding to stop her from marrying someone else. The two of them run off together in to the sunset, boarding a bus that is going to take them far away.

After the camera focuses on the elated couple, the shot carries on, and they both look at each other, then away from each other, with growing uncertainty and unease as the reality of what they’ve done sets in. The ambiguity of the ending is melancholy and brilliant, and also a total accident because the director forgot to yell CUT and end the scene. At least, in this situation, keeping the camera rolling for that extra little bit made the movie what it was.

In some cases though, I’m sure it work the other way. There are plenty of movies which already had the perfect ending, and if the camera kept rolling for an extra minute or two, the whole movie would have been ruined. Take for example Inception (again, spoilers ahead). Does the top keep spinning, or doesn’t it? Honestly, if we knew the answer it would completely negate the experience. Much like the main character, we aren’t meant to know. We should be happy with the ending that was given, not the ending that was real.

So what movie do you think had a great ending that would be ruined if the cameras kept rolling?

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Last Updated: August 31, 2016

12 Comments

  1. konfab

    August 31, 2016 at 11:17

    Every Stanley Kubrick film.

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    • Tracy Benson

      August 31, 2016 at 13:02

      How so?

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      • konfab

        August 31, 2016 at 13:11

        To give an easy example:
        Eyes wide shut:

        The film **conveniently** leaves out the part where Bill’s daughter walks away with two old men who were previously discussing a teddy bear.

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        • Tracy Benson

          August 31, 2016 at 16:02

          Damn. Never seen Eyes Wide Shut. Should have heeded my own spoiler warnings!

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          • konfab

            August 31, 2016 at 16:07

            Sowi 🙁

  2. Kervyn Cloete

    August 31, 2016 at 11:41

    Every action movie in the 1980’s/1980’s. The story would keep playing out showing the hero having to stand trial for the ludicrous amounts of property damage the caused as well as possibly facing manslaughter charges because normal civilians aren’t legally allowed to just kill people even if they were bad guys

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    • Tracy Benson

      August 31, 2016 at 13:02

      Good point!

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  3. Andre116

    August 31, 2016 at 13:21

    Titanic…when the reporter asks Rose why she didn’t just move a up bit on the door to make more space.

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    • Tracy Benson

      August 31, 2016 at 16:02

      Haha, I read somewhere that although there was enough space for both of them, it wouldn’t have stayed buoyant if they were both on the door, the surface area was too small to stay floating with both of them on it.

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      • Sandelk

        August 31, 2016 at 16:41

        The irony is the movie actually shows this, because both initially tried to get on, but it was unstable… No, I haven’t watched Titanic too much, its just a part of the movie that always made sense to me.

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  4. Filmmaker

    September 29, 2016 at 13:02

    Django Unchained – He and Helder (?) would have met other, meaner, slavers who would’ve tortured them to death.
    The Switch – Wally and Kassie would get married and then get a divorce the following week.

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