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Fannish Friday: Best Endings
There's nothing better than a satisfying ending. Tell me about your favorites!
This will, presumably, be spoilerific, so enter the comments at your own risk. I'm keeping it vague in the post itself, but feel free to get into specifics in the comments if you wish.
My favorites?
+ Before Sunset. That two-line exchange at the end? Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.
+ The Third Man. That long, long shot at the end? Love it.
+ Benjamin January #4, Sold Down the River. As I was getting towards the end, I was thinking, "This is so well written but I don't know if I can love it because it's so depressing." And then the ending happened. Eucatastrophe, as Tolkien would say. T
+ Queen of Attolia. Best final line? Best final line.
+ Code Name Verity. I have never in my life cried as much over a story as I cried over that damn book.
+ The Bad and the Beautiful. An entire film about why these people should not do a thing, and the last seconds show why they get pulled back in. SO GOOD.
+ It's a Wonderful Life. Is it sappy? Yes. Do I care? No, I am too busy sobbing. Every. Single. Time.
+ The Untamed. Way to completely undermine the censors without doing anything technically wrong. That smile. We know.
+ KBS's White Christmas. I will say nothing further but the last shot of this is SO GOOD.
This will, presumably, be spoilerific, so enter the comments at your own risk. I'm keeping it vague in the post itself, but feel free to get into specifics in the comments if you wish.
My favorites?
+ Before Sunset. That two-line exchange at the end? Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.
+ The Third Man. That long, long shot at the end? Love it.
+ Benjamin January #4, Sold Down the River. As I was getting towards the end, I was thinking, "This is so well written but I don't know if I can love it because it's so depressing." And then the ending happened. Eucatastrophe, as Tolkien would say. T
+ Queen of Attolia. Best final line? Best final line.
+ Code Name Verity. I have never in my life cried as much over a story as I cried over that damn book.
+ The Bad and the Beautiful. An entire film about why these people should not do a thing, and the last seconds show why they get pulled back in. SO GOOD.
+ It's a Wonderful Life. Is it sappy? Yes. Do I care? No, I am too busy sobbing. Every. Single. Time.
+ The Untamed. Way to completely undermine the censors without doing anything technically wrong. That smile. We know.
+ KBS's White Christmas. I will say nothing further but the last shot of this is SO GOOD.
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I've been pondering this idly all weekend and here are some that I landed on, though I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch I previously thought about--
+ I know that it isn't really the ending of Jane Eyre, but the pre-epilogue image of Rochester leaning on Jane and them walking home together, mirroring when she helped him after Ye Olde Horse Crash when they first met, always really sticks in my heart.
+ I always feel a lil' sentimental pang at the end of Anne of Green Gables too.
+ Some novel endings that linger with me: Gone Girl, The Little Stranger, Fingersmith.
+ In terms of TV finales that I love both in general and in terms of their last moments: Gilmore Girls 7.22, Anne with an E, Succession, Grace and Frankie, (super throwback to) Six Feet Under.
+ I love the end of Austenland with the montage of everybody at the super cheesy Austenland theme park. So silly, so weird, so full of great visuals. Really ends this silly, weird, great movie on a high.
+ Bridget Jones's Diary's last scene and last dialogue exchange are just really forever wonderful.
+ The very end of the season one finale of Deadloch. I won't say any more than that. (I think I've left like this exact phrase in your comments here before. 😂 I just really like it, okay!)
+ I really like how Emma 2020 starts with her opening her eyes and ends with her closing her eyes; such pleasing symmetry!
+ I didn't even like that one movie with Idris Elba and Kate Winslet where they get stranded in the cold winter wilderness and have to survive together -- I remember finding it really disappointing because that premise and casting is amazing but in execution it was just meh -- but the very last moment is them running toward each other, and just before they embrace it cuts to black, and I've always found that so visually moving. That ending still sticks with me even though I can't remember anything else about the movie except disappointment! And as you can see, I'm not even bothering to look up the title, mwahaha. God. What is that movie even called? Hot People Stranded On A Snowy Mountain? Probably not.
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YES!
I love reading your answers!!! Thank you!!!