some people have grossly misinterpreted
these films and the conclusions they
came to welcome to watchmojo.com and
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the top 10 movie endings that don’t mean
what you think
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description for this list we’re looking
at film endings that are often
misinterpreted and/or misunderstood by
general moviegoers will be basing our
choices on a mix of the movies Fame and
the severity of the gap between the
perceived meaning of the ending and the
actual intended outcome no idea is
simple when you need to plant it in
somebody else’s mind number 10 rocky was
drawn don’t like me Rocky is a boxing
movie that’s not about boxing while the
famous training montage and climactic
fight are a lot of fun the movie was
always more interested in telling a
wholesome story about an underachiever
discovering his potential it’s telling
that the result of the fight is so
inconsequential
while many boom owned Rocky’s lost to
Apollo or criticized the movies lack of
focus regarding the outcome this lack of
focus is entirely the point
rocky and Adrian don’t care about the
outcome and neither should you
rocky went the distance and found love
along the way proving his own self-worth
and when you accomplish that who cares
what the judges have to say
well who the hell are you talking to me
the ending of taxi driver has been
discussed and debated for decades some
people believe that Travis died in the
brothel and that the final scene with
Betsy is some kind of death dream while
others believe that the Betsy scene
actually happened which it totally did I
read about in the papers Varya
but then there’s even further debate as
some interpret the ending is Travis
being cured and returning to normality
however that couldn’t be further from
the truth
by having Travis do a double-take into
the rearview mirror the movie is subtly
showing us that Travis has found
something else secure hinting that he’s
still dangerous and that he will
indefinitely continue his cycle of
violence
number eight shutter island’
so for the past two years you’ve had
somebody slipping me drugs in Boston is
that it no Boston here you’ve been here
for two years near the end of shutter
island’ we discovered that Teddy Daniels
is actually Andrew latest a mental
hospital patient who murdered his wife
while latest initially shows signs of
understanding his true identity the
doctors also declared that this has
happened before and that latest had
unfortunately regressed my name is
and I murdered my wife in the spring 52
this is seemingly proven when he refers
to Sheehan as Chuck it’s understandable
that some people interpret the ending as
latest simply regressing back into his
role as teddy
however latest is only pretending to be
teddy in order to get a lobotomy and end
his suffering as evident by his question
to Sheehan has refusing to answer to
teddy and she ends bewildered response
which would be worse don’t live is a
monster what a die is a good man number
seven get out by the way I I would have
voted for Obama for a third term if I
could best president my life to have
hands down
get out seems to have a pretty happy
ending rod arrives and rescues Chris and
the Armitage family are dead however
things aren’t as happy as they seem as
evident by Chris’s dejected stare for
one thing Chris is clearly aware that
there are far more members of the
Arbutus family still out there and who
knows how many kidnapped black people
are still wandering around his host the
ending could also be an ironic statement
on our modern culture the current racist
state of things is still most certainly
not handled contrary to what Rob thinks
and it looks as if Chris knows it the
Armitage azar still out there both
literally and figuratively
[Music]
number six whiplash there are no two
words in the English language more
harmful than good job
whiplash tells the story of an ambitious
jazz student and his abusive instructor
and it serves as a great fable about the
quest for perfection and while the
ending seems relatively happy we must
take a closer look at Andrew and his
relationship with Fletcher you’re done
by the end of the film Andrew is
completely ruined and has sacrificed his
entire life for drumming on top of that
the ending seems to hint that Andrew
wants Fletcher’s approval more than he
wants to be a successful drummer this
unhealthy quest for perfection and
approval will only lead to more
loneliness and tension who knows Andrew
could even wind up suicidal like Sean
Casey before long I’d rather die drunk
broke at 34 and have people at a dinner
table talk about me than live to be rich
and sober at 90 and nobody remember who
I was number five in Bruges great this
is hard out tonight I’m suicidal
we made choice to kill me Gordon gets
nicked almost Denham leaving a
character’s fate unanswered is often a
cheap storytelling tactic use for
unearned discussion or sequel bate and
while in Bruges does employ the often
frustrating ambiguous death trope it
uses it to complex and thematic effect
throughout the film Colin Farrell’s ray
is suicidal after accidentally killing a
child during the climax prey is shot by
his employer Harry and taken into an
ambulance while narrating about his wish
to stay alive and while we never learned
the outcome the actual catharsis comes
from ray wishing for life
as Ken suggested ray has earned his
Redemption and atoned for his sins and
that’s good enough for us that’s you
hurry the boy has the capacity to change
the boy has the capacity to do something
decent in his life number 4 Total Recall
why go to Mars as a tourist when you can
go as a playboy or a famous jock or a
secret agent how much is that the
ambiguity of total recalls ending has
made it one of the most debated endings
in science fiction cinema the ending
sees the reactor releasing air into the
Martian atmosphere and turning the sky
blue everything seems well unhappy but
there’s a reason why Quaid thinks about
the possibility of it being a dream
earlier in the movie
a lab tech mentions a blue sky on Mars
and there are various other hints
littered throughout pointing to the
ending being a fabrication so did the
ending actually happen or was it all a
program dream there’s certainly enough
evidence to support the latter even if
many people will leave it to be the
former what if this is a dream
well then kiss me quick before you wake
up
number three Fight Club the first rule
of Fight Club is you do not talk about
my club Fight Club is arguably one of
the most misunderstood movies of all
time posters of Tyler Durden have
littered many a college dorm and Durin’s
philosophies are often hailed as some
sort of cure for the modern commercial
age only we’re not supposed to root for
Durden the ending in which the
building’s explode is not meant to be
cheered or viewed as some sort of moral
victory against the powerful elite but
an ominous sign of MIS aimed frustration
we’re not supposed to cheer for the
explosions because they serve as a
critique against the narrator’s unhinged
mental state as the narrator explains
this violence is a result of a very
strange time in his life you men have a
very strange time alright number two
Inception I need to get home that’s all
I care about right now why can’t you go
because they think I killed her
inception like in Bruges utilizes the
otherwise frustrating lack of closure
for thematic importance the ending sees
Cobb returning home to his children and
ignoring the totem the camera lingers on
the spinning top leaving many viewers to
debate whether Cobb was dreaming or not
and even ignoring the famous wedding
ring theory the idea of Cobb being in a
dreamer reality is not the point the
point is that Cobb chooses his own
reality by ignoring the totem it doesn’t
matter if the children are real or not
what matters is that Cobb has finally
found peace and acceptance number one a
Clockwork Orange I don’t care about the
dangerous father I just want to be good
the ending of a Clockwork Orange remains
controversial and misunderstood to this
day perhaps because people don’t like
the idea of inherent evil the ending
sees Alex shedding his tendencies
towards violence and sex being offered a
job by the minister and declaring that
he’s cured bleeding many viewers to
assume that he will continue his
law-abiding nature you see we are
looking after your interests we are
interested in and when you leave here
you will have nowhere else we shall see
to everything a good job on a good
salary what job and how much however
this final declaration from Alex is
laden with sarcasm he’s most certainly
not cured and will revert back to his
violent ways
[Music]
while Alex eventually matures in the
novel this is not the case for the film
which seems to be suggesting that evil
cannot be controlled my mind is a blank
and I’ll smash your face for you your
Blancos do you agree with our pics check
out these other great clips from
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these films and the conclusions they
came to welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 movie endings that don’t mean
what you think
hey trivia fans watch mojo is on the Q’s
live trivia app where your pop-culture
knowledge can earn you real money and
it’s supposed to buy me the watch mojo
lady winners in our first game took home
$200 each get the app on iOS or Android
to be notified when it’s game time you
can find the download link in the
description for this list we’re looking
at film endings that are often
misinterpreted and/or misunderstood by
general moviegoers will be basing our
choices on a mix of the movies Fame and
the severity of the gap between the
perceived meaning of the ending and the
actual intended outcome no idea is
simple when you need to plant it in
somebody else’s mind number 10 rocky was
drawn don’t like me Rocky is a boxing
movie that’s not about boxing while the
famous training montage and climactic
fight are a lot of fun the movie was
always more interested in telling a
wholesome story about an underachiever
discovering his potential it’s telling
that the result of the fight is so
inconsequential
while many boom owned Rocky’s lost to
Apollo or criticized the movies lack of
focus regarding the outcome this lack of
focus is entirely the point
rocky and Adrian don’t care about the
outcome and neither should you
rocky went the distance and found love
along the way proving his own self-worth
and when you accomplish that who cares
what the judges have to say
well who the hell are you talking to me
the ending of taxi driver has been
discussed and debated for decades some
people believe that Travis died in the
brothel and that the final scene with
Betsy is some kind of death dream while
others believe that the Betsy scene
actually happened which it totally did I
read about in the papers Varya
but then there’s even further debate as
some interpret the ending is Travis
being cured and returning to normality
however that couldn’t be further from
the truth
by having Travis do a double-take into
the rearview mirror the movie is subtly
showing us that Travis has found
something else secure hinting that he’s
still dangerous and that he will
indefinitely continue his cycle of
violence
number eight shutter island’
so for the past two years you’ve had
somebody slipping me drugs in Boston is
that it no Boston here you’ve been here
for two years near the end of shutter
island’ we discovered that Teddy Daniels
is actually Andrew latest a mental
hospital patient who murdered his wife
while latest initially shows signs of
understanding his true identity the
doctors also declared that this has
happened before and that latest had
unfortunately regressed my name is
and I murdered my wife in the spring 52
this is seemingly proven when he refers
to Sheehan as Chuck it’s understandable
that some people interpret the ending as
latest simply regressing back into his
role as teddy
however latest is only pretending to be
teddy in order to get a lobotomy and end
his suffering as evident by his question
to Sheehan has refusing to answer to
teddy and she ends bewildered response
which would be worse don’t live is a
monster what a die is a good man number
seven get out by the way I I would have
voted for Obama for a third term if I
could best president my life to have
hands down
get out seems to have a pretty happy
ending rod arrives and rescues Chris and
the Armitage family are dead however
things aren’t as happy as they seem as
evident by Chris’s dejected stare for
one thing Chris is clearly aware that
there are far more members of the
Arbutus family still out there and who
knows how many kidnapped black people
are still wandering around his host the
ending could also be an ironic statement
on our modern culture the current racist
state of things is still most certainly
not handled contrary to what Rob thinks
and it looks as if Chris knows it the
Armitage azar still out there both
literally and figuratively
[Music]
number six whiplash there are no two
words in the English language more
harmful than good job
whiplash tells the story of an ambitious
jazz student and his abusive instructor
and it serves as a great fable about the
quest for perfection and while the
ending seems relatively happy we must
take a closer look at Andrew and his
relationship with Fletcher you’re done
by the end of the film Andrew is
completely ruined and has sacrificed his
entire life for drumming on top of that
the ending seems to hint that Andrew
wants Fletcher’s approval more than he
wants to be a successful drummer this
unhealthy quest for perfection and
approval will only lead to more
loneliness and tension who knows Andrew
could even wind up suicidal like Sean
Casey before long I’d rather die drunk
broke at 34 and have people at a dinner
table talk about me than live to be rich
and sober at 90 and nobody remember who
I was number five in Bruges great this
is hard out tonight I’m suicidal
we made choice to kill me Gordon gets
nicked almost Denham leaving a
character’s fate unanswered is often a
cheap storytelling tactic use for
unearned discussion or sequel bate and
while in Bruges does employ the often
frustrating ambiguous death trope it
uses it to complex and thematic effect
throughout the film Colin Farrell’s ray
is suicidal after accidentally killing a
child during the climax prey is shot by
his employer Harry and taken into an
ambulance while narrating about his wish
to stay alive and while we never learned
the outcome the actual catharsis comes
from ray wishing for life
as Ken suggested ray has earned his
Redemption and atoned for his sins and
that’s good enough for us that’s you
hurry the boy has the capacity to change
the boy has the capacity to do something
decent in his life number 4 Total Recall
why go to Mars as a tourist when you can
go as a playboy or a famous jock or a
secret agent how much is that the
ambiguity of total recalls ending has
made it one of the most debated endings
in science fiction cinema the ending
sees the reactor releasing air into the
Martian atmosphere and turning the sky
blue everything seems well unhappy but
there’s a reason why Quaid thinks about
the possibility of it being a dream
earlier in the movie
a lab tech mentions a blue sky on Mars
and there are various other hints
littered throughout pointing to the
ending being a fabrication so did the
ending actually happen or was it all a
program dream there’s certainly enough
evidence to support the latter even if
many people will leave it to be the
former what if this is a dream
well then kiss me quick before you wake
up
number three Fight Club the first rule
of Fight Club is you do not talk about
my club Fight Club is arguably one of
the most misunderstood movies of all
time posters of Tyler Durden have
littered many a college dorm and Durin’s
philosophies are often hailed as some
sort of cure for the modern commercial
age only we’re not supposed to root for
Durden the ending in which the
building’s explode is not meant to be
cheered or viewed as some sort of moral
victory against the powerful elite but
an ominous sign of MIS aimed frustration
we’re not supposed to cheer for the
explosions because they serve as a
critique against the narrator’s unhinged
mental state as the narrator explains
this violence is a result of a very
strange time in his life you men have a
very strange time alright number two
Inception I need to get home that’s all
I care about right now why can’t you go
because they think I killed her
inception like in Bruges utilizes the
otherwise frustrating lack of closure
for thematic importance the ending sees
Cobb returning home to his children and
ignoring the totem the camera lingers on
the spinning top leaving many viewers to
debate whether Cobb was dreaming or not
and even ignoring the famous wedding
ring theory the idea of Cobb being in a
dreamer reality is not the point the
point is that Cobb chooses his own
reality by ignoring the totem it doesn’t
matter if the children are real or not
what matters is that Cobb has finally
found peace and acceptance number one a
Clockwork Orange I don’t care about the
dangerous father I just want to be good
the ending of a Clockwork Orange remains
controversial and misunderstood to this
day perhaps because people don’t like
the idea of inherent evil the ending
sees Alex shedding his tendencies
towards violence and sex being offered a
job by the minister and declaring that
he’s cured bleeding many viewers to
assume that he will continue his
law-abiding nature you see we are
looking after your interests we are
interested in and when you leave here
you will have nowhere else we shall see
to everything a good job on a good
salary what job and how much however
this final declaration from Alex is
laden with sarcasm he’s most certainly
not cured and will revert back to his
violent ways
[Music]
while Alex eventually matures in the
novel this is not the case for the film
which seems to be suggesting that evil
cannot be controlled my mind is a blank
and I’ll smash your face for you your
Blancos do you agree with our pics check
out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and
ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos
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