You could almost view this alternate ending as an imagined dream of Chow’s, desperate to see the woman he loved one more time, in the unlikeliest of scenarios. It’s a sad scene, with nothing more to add for the pair, and questions unanswered. In this alternate and impossible ending, Chow bumps into her while in Angkor Wat. It’s never stated in the film if this affair was ever consummated, and their goodbye is unresolved and truly sad. Almost removed from the rest of the film, a heartbroken Chow goes to Angkor Wat to lay to rest the memories of his ephemeral affair with his neighbour Su Li-zhen. The ending of In The Mood for Love is beautiful, elegiac, and heartrending. It’s brutal, realistic and leaves you with questions – was this the IRA getting revenge, or the CIA tying up loose ends?īest Horror Movies on Netflix 43. However, in this alternate ending, she does show up, only to not enter the café and leave instead, before a van pulls up beside her and snatches her away. Deirdre (Natasha McElhone), the IRA girl Sam had begun to have feelings for and revealed his undercover CIA nature to in order for her to escape, is meant to show but doesn’t, leaving Sam to get in a car and leave. In the original ending of this underrated crime classic, Sam (Robert De Niro) and Vincent (Jean Reno) talk together in a café while the radio announces peace between Sinn Fein and the British Government. Read more: 12 Best Stephen King Movies 44. This has Mike dying during the destructive fire and hotel manager Olin being the one to hear the recording, before ghost Mike reunites with his ghost daughter. iTunes and FX network version, they use the original ending, swapped out for being too much of a downer. However, in the UK and Australian version, as well as the U.S. release, the film ends with Mike (John Cusack) successfully surviving the fire he started to destroy the haunted room 1408 and reconciling with his estranged wife, before they both hear a recording of their ghostly daughter talking to Mike in the hotel room.
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One of the most talked-about film endings on the internet, 1408 occupies a space in the movie world where it doesn’t seem to have an ‘official’ ending.
Read more – Hannibal Lecter: History of the Character 45. Director Ridley Scott has stated this is meant to show the symbolic corruption of the boy.
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When on the plane, and after the boy has asked for some of Lecter’s food (implied to be brain), the serial killer asks if the boy’s mother had ever warned him about strangers, before saying it doesn’t matter as she’s asleep, and he’s feeding the boy himself. Instead of cutting to the plane, we see Lecter walk casually to a van, as though this was all part of his plan, before waving to some mothers and their children and then driving off. Instead what we get is an uninterrupted ‘kiss’ between the two of them (with Lecter running his tongue over Starling’s lips) before escaping. One of the more creepier alternate endings, the ending of Hannibal doesn’t involve Clarice Starling handcuffing Lecter, and his extreme self-mutilation to escape. In one alternate ending, Tsotsi is shot in the shoulder by the police, but escapes in the ensuing mayhem, while in the other, he is shot in the chest and killed to the horror of witnesses. It’s a perfect ending to a film which shows both right and wrong in people, often in the same scene. TsotsiĪt the end of Gavin Hood’s brilliant Tsotsi, our eponymous lead ambiguously puts up his hands after surrendering the stolen baby and being surrounded by police. Read more: Best Movie Musicals of the 21st Century 47. In the Extended Cut, Salt escapes from the CIA and travels to Russia in order to blow up the sleeper agent training facility, and, seemingly murdering hundreds of children in the process… In the Director’s Cut, an earlier scene showing the US President getting knocked out is changed to show him being killed instead – and a final report hinting that the new US President is a sleeper agent. This 2010 Angelina Jolie action thriller is blessed with not just one, but two alternate endings, both explicitly setting up a sequel only hinted at in the original version, which has Peabody release Salt at the end of her film, in order for her to continue hunting down sleeper agents. Read more: Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 21st Century 48. In the alternate version, we don’t get the freeze-frame, and instead see our heroes cut down, and then their lifeless bodies, just a couple of wannabes… In the iconic original, Butch and Sundance decide to go out in a blaze of glory, and the film freeze-frames on them as they run into a certain hail of bullets. Here’s an example of less being definitely more.
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