Reimagining Hollywood classics – no happy endings allowed
Happy endings are over-rated. Sure, it's nice to walk out of a cinema with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. But isn't it much more fulfilling to stumble out of a cinema shaken to your very core, dumbstruck by the cavalcade of bleak events a film-maker has served up in the name of 'entertainment'? Right?
A bleak ending can so much more memorable than a happy one – and it's not hard to see where Jane Campion's coming from when she says she wishes she'd stuck with her plans to give The Piano a much more downbeat ending than the final version.
With that in mind, we took to Twitter to gather suggestions for other films that could be improved with a bleaker ending. Here's a handful – share yours in the comment thread below, or tweet us @guardianfilm with the hashtag #bleakerendings.
The Death Star doesn't blow up. Chewbacca eats all the Ewoks. #bleakerendings
— Guardian Film (@guardianfilm) July 8, 2013
Basically Roy Scheider just gets eaten #bleakerendings
— Guardian Film (@guardianfilm) July 8, 2013
"My God… it's full of pins" #bleakerendings
— Guardian Film (@guardianfilm) July 8, 2013
@guardianfilm 'Look, Daddy. Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings', *tree falls over, bells all smash* #bleakerendings
— Rob Barker (@robbarker1982) July 8, 2013
@guardianfilm Withnail doesn't have an umbrella #bleakerendings
— James Dawson (@JamesPDD) July 8, 2013
They do not let his daughter go. He does not find them, and he does not kill them #bleakerendings
— Daniel Archibald (@daarchibald) July 8, 2013
@guardianfilm Leaping from the inferno, Dumbo discovers he can't, in fact, fly. Crows refrain : "When I See An Elephant Die" #bleakerendings
— Matthew Thrift (@Matt_Cinephile) July 8, 2013
@guardianfilm After finding Nemo, his father loses him once more to drugs and organised crime. #bleakerendings
— Maryam Khan (@MaryamKahn) July 8, 2013
James Franco slips and gets his other arm stuck. Has to use his teeth this time. #bleakerendings
— M. Wood (@useforglue) July 8, 2013
There were never any replicants ever; Tyrell was just an excellent con man; Deckard has killed dozens of humans #Bleakerendings
— James Alex Davies (@_SnickerSnack) July 8, 2013
#bleakerendings R. Attenborough responds to nazi officers 'good luck' by blurting the coordinates of Blechley park, which is then bombed.
— Matthew John Allison (@MattJAllison1) July 8, 2013
Babe is delicious #Bleakerendings
— James Alex Davies (@_SnickerSnack) July 8, 2013
That Jeff Goldblum character sacrifices both kids to velociraptors and rides the T-Rex off the Island #bleakerendings
— Sérgio F. Oliveira (@sfoliveira) July 8, 2013
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2013/jul/08/does-your-favourite-film-bleaker-ending
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