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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 usually only come up with movies, it seems, but here goes:
- the first Pirates of the Caribbean; happy endings all around and that final shot of Jack Sparrow with that score is perfection. Come to think of it, the reveal of Barbossa being alive at the end of part 2 was just as great!
- Knives Out. Martha staring at the asshole family from the balcony of the house she now owns - *chefs kiss*
- Inception. The spinning top. Hard cut to black. Cinema in an uproar.
- Iron Man. Perfect casting meets awesome ending with "I am Iron Man", kick-starting the biggest franchise in the world.
- Barbenheimer. Both movies have a great ending, one leaving us with a super funny line, the other giving us a lot of food for thought.
- Life of Brian. Always look on the bright side of life.
- The Truman Show. One last bow.
A book ending: Life of Pi. I was on the edge of my seat throughtout the second part of this book, and the coda in the end is a true gut punch but also explains so well what people get out of religion.
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