If you could change the ending of a film, which one would it be and how would the ending change?

Question

I would change the ending of the Shawshank Redemption to make it the same as the book, because in every other way, the film was the best adaptation of a book ever

Answer 1

Love Story - so that she does not die and they both live happy ever after.



Or Doctor Zhivago - so that Doctor Zhivago and Lara end up together - rather than him as an old man trying to attract her attraction and dying without her.



Shows that I am an old romantic - can't help it.

Answer 2

Personally I wouldn't change any ending to a movie I liked because I knew I would probably mess it up, and for a movie I don't like I wouldn't really care about changing in the first place, but I do think its an interesting question. However, I kind of want to know how you would change the end of Terminator 2. I thought that was perfection. When the Terminator said 'I know now why you cry, but it is something I could never do' I thought that is easily one of the highest points in cinema history. So, if you see this I am being truly honest I do want to know how you would have liked it to play out.

Answer 3

The Sixth Sense - Bruce Willis was really alive the whole time and all the people who'd tipped me off about the "amazing twist" would be wrong!



Either that or Titanic, I'd have just made that damn ship sink 2 hours 45 minutes earlier and gone to the pub.

Answer 4

I think it is hard to suggest an ending to a film, most of them happened for a good reason (unless it’s a poor film) and without it we most likely wouldn’t of gained the effect from the film that we would otherwise.



I personally would of liked to of seen Maximus live at the end of Gladiator, but I don’t think the movie would have been as powerful and no doubt lots of poor sequels would of came about, where as the film itself was just enough.

Answer 5

Jaws - the shark would eat everybody on the Orca, then swim back to Amity and eat the Mayor, Brody's moaning wife and his unattractive children and then eat a whole bunch of people who weren't in the film just for fun!!



It would then swim away and live happily ever after and eat, swim and make little sharks.

Answer 6

Return of the Jedi. And in the end, there will be a whole line of jedis (Mace Windu, Quigon Jinn, and the rest of those who were killed under the orders of Palpatine) welcoming Darth Vader. Not just Obi-Wan and Yoda.

Answer 7

my choices would be



The Italian Job (Original Version)

the bus wouldn't scid of the road and hang of the edge with the gold seemliy out of reach



The Jackal

Bruce Willis kills the Presidents wife and he gets away to Kill Richard Gere and his god awful Irish Accent



The Dirty Dozen

Jim Browns Character doesn't get killed at the end



Heat

Robert De Niro

Escapes at the end

Answer 8

Casablanca

the guy would get the girl and the Nazis would be defeated

and I'd make the film contain the line play it again Sam as everybody thinks Humphrey says it any ways

Answer 9

In "Legends of the Fall" when he gets back from his long journey, I would have Brad Pitt tell Julia Ormond what a mistake it was to have

left her and that he loved her beyond words ... then Julia would leave Aiden Quinn to be with Brad on the ranch for the rest of their lives ...

Answer 10

Wouldn't it be good to end a rubbish film at the beginning?



The English Patient's fate was sealed from early on, when we learn of the death of the heroine (flashback). Nonetheless it is sad, and a magic wand is needed.



I agree with Peten Deacon though, and wish oh wish that Brucie wasn't NO MORE at the end!!

Answer 11

I would change the ending to the film ghost with patrick swayzee,id make his girlfriend (demi moore)die at the end too so she can go off to heaven with him ,really sweet/sad film.

or... id change watership down and let all the bunnies live as that film makes me and my mates cry

Answer 12

The Lake House - to follow back the orig ending fr the orig movie

Answer 13

Let Joaquin Pheonix live in Return to Pardise.

Answer 14

Leon.

I would end it five minutes earlier so we don't see all the twee stuff with her planting the tree etc. Made me groan at an otherwise near perfect film.

Answer 15

The Care Bear Movie. I would introduce a nuclear holocaust at the end.

Answer 16

e.t when they take off on the bikes with e.t in the pinic basket thingy at the front a boeing 747 flies straight through them chopping em up into teenie tiny peices

Answer 17

the end of the 7th harry potter movie. voldmort escapes and more movies have to be made in order to bring the story to a proper close.

Answer 18

Boys don't cry : Teena brandon wouldnt get raped or murdered, everyone would just accept her who she was.

Boyz in the hood: Ricky wouldn't die

Pearl Harbour: Josh harrnett would die

Answer 19

Dirty Dancing

OK Its a great ending and everyone loves it BUT

Does she still go home from holiday without him?

Do they stay together, or was it just a holiday romance?

Answer 20

I would change the ending of any Hugh Grant movie to a scene where someone slaps the smirking supercilious twit silly.

Answer 21

scent of a woman , so he will be formula car driver



let me say to those who want 1 jack don't drown in titanic ( he freeze he don't drown )

2 girl don't die in lovestory

if that happen it wouldn't be a good movie it wouldn't have the lesson it will be like bollywood movies

Answer 22

First Blood (Rambo dies in the book so they wouldn't have been able to make the sequels)

Answer 23

Sophies choice...it was heart breaking but I guess life happened like that for many...x

Answer 24

The Titanic- The ship doesn't sink :p

Answer 25

Thelma and Louise - I hated it when they drove off the cliff. I didn't see that coming at all.

Answer 26

Do you get pleasure out of telling me i cant spell? Jus coz i use slang dnt mean i cant spell.. N if words come out wrong its usually cus im typing fast and i dnt realise.

Answer 27

The Matrix - so I could undersand what happened

Answer 28

Just married...Ashton Kutcher would leave that witch Britney Murphy and live happily ever after.....with me;-)

Answer 29

Million dollar baby........Swank would have lived and come back to beat the baddie.

Answer 30

i wud change the fourth coming movie of haharry potter's edition where he's killed in climax it seems

Answer 31

Any bond film...



Where he doesn't get the girl, and get's captured!!!

Answer 32

lord of the rings...gollum should have lived

Answer 33

never ending story..i would do it so it doesnt lie and actually doesnt end tehe

Answer 34

Titanic...Jack wouldn't drown