20 sad films that have almost had happy endings

For some movies, Breaker is better.


For some movies, the public is already prepared for asad ending, as the film itself does not justify exactly an optimistic and inspiring conclusion. For example, take a movie likeLowering, in which the main characters fight against a series of creature attacks living in the caves they originally presented to explore - no matter how you look at it, there is no way that this end is well Want that those who are looking for for a flick plus upbeat.

But what happens if there was a way to give melancholy films happy forever? Believe it or not, some of the most scary and depressing films on flickers likeThis,Gift, and1408-cameThis closure Enter a positive note. Without further delay, we present the sad, dark and depressing flickers who have almost done with joy.

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Terminator 2

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It's hard to imagine a movie in theTerminator Franchise with a kind of happy conclusion - And yet, the second film has almost one. In the moviesend of peaceful alternation, Audiences are treated with a decade decades epilogue in the future in which a much older Sarah Connor (played byLinda Hamilton) Details, via Voiceover, how a Robot Apocalypse has never arrived and how everyone has lived happy forever.

But as this ideal end did not leave room for potential sequelae (and therefore money), the creators of the film decided to go with a lot of nonsense, the ambiguous end that so far has resulted in four other films . (Terminator 6is planned to be published in 2019.)

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1408

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If you saw1408For the first time either abroad or on FX, you saw it with its original and dark end. TypicalStephen KingFashion, the short adaptation of the story ends withJohn CusackMike character dying in the fire of the hotel he started and brings together with his dead daughter. However, if you saw the film while it was in theaters in the United States, you may remember having a slightly less dark end, in which Mike survives to fire, reconnect with his separate wife and tries to understand what the devil has moved to him in room 1408.

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This

It Movie {Happy Alternate Movie Ending}

By describing the movieThis, traumatizationadaptation to the cinema another work from Stephen King, it is difficult to use descriptors likeclearWherefunny-But it may be exactly how the fans have described that the film had directorAndy Muschietti chosen to include the alternative end.

In this more amateur version of theHorror Flick, We see that young Georgie reach the drain for his sailboat - but instead of being killed by Pennywise as in the film that did it in theaters, it simplyTake the boat from the clown hand, Thank you and share. Of course, it is doubtful that this satirical scene has ever been considered even for liberation, but it's nice to imagine a world in which the children of Derry, Maine lived happy forever.

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The wedding of my best friend

My Best Friend's Wedding
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Although the conclusionThe wedding of my best friend is not tragic, in itself, it's certainly not ideal forJulia Robert 'Julianne Potter, who ends alone, looking at his best friend and his former Fling Michael marries the daughter of his dreams. It was not always the case, however: in theoriginal version of the film, Potter meets a new interest of love at Michael's wedding and the film ends with both of them dancing at night. So, why the change of heart?

"They wanted [Potter] Dead," DirectorP.J. hoganRecountWeekly entertainment About the visceral reaction of the test public at the original end of the film. "They simply could not understand his motivations."

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Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove film {happy alternate movie endings}

In what is now considered one of theStanley Kubrick'smoreemblematic scenes, The political satire of 1964Dr. StrangeloveEnds with Major J. Kong overlapping a nuclear weapon and mounting atomic bombs blowing everywhere. However, Kubrick's original vision for the film was slightly less dark: although the world always ends, the original film ended with a tart fight in the war.

After special attention, the director decided that the pie combat scene was "a disaster of homeric proportions" "not compatible with the satirical tone of the rest of the film", and the dark nuclear end we know was born.

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The identity of Bourne

The Bourne Identity movie poster {happy alternate movie endings}

AlthoughMatt DamonJason Bourne brings together with the love of his life, Marie, in both versions ofThe identity of Bourne, the end of the end of the film ends a lot moreExtravagant embrace. In the end that did it on the big screen, Bourne wins Marie and both share a subtle of embrace; In the end that never done it in the film, Bourne and Marie distinguish the beach while the sun sets in a typical Hollywood manner.

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Highlander 2: The Quickening

Highlander 2 Movie Poster {Happy Alternate Movie Endings}

The real fans ofHighlander 2: The Quickeninghave probably already heard of the alternate of the movie "End of a fairy account" In this document, Connor and Louise back to the Planet Zeist after a beautiful and well-deserved victory for the earth, but not before kissing in front of a sky full of stars.

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Lowering

The Descent film {happy alternate movie endings}

In the international version of this horror movie, surviving remains Sarah escapes the cave where she is attacked by mysterious creatures than to wake up once in the cave, as she realizes that her escape was just a sick hallucination. The creators of this film felt that Sarah's disappearance was too dark for an American audience, however, and so the American version of the film featured Sarah escape successfully (and he does not hurt that this allowed it2 descent)

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Trails of glory

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It seems that Kubrick has a problem with the writing of an end and stick to it. Example: Originally, the anti-war filmTrails of gloryended with the three soldiers judged for cowardice to be released, but after a lot of stars objectionKirk Douglas, Kubrick and writerJim ThompsonModified the script for the soldiers to have been sentenced to death and executed.

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Easy Rider

Easy Rider Movie Poster {Happy Alternate Movie Ending}

AlthoughEasy Riderof Wyatt and Billy are only two bikers of casual with a boundless love for the road, they all have violent ends when they are killed and shotDuring their travels. However, according to screenwriterTerry Southern, This end was not well received by starsHopper Dennis, Who hoped that hippies bikers go to the end of the film safe and sound.

"I think for a minute [Hopper] was still hoping they would be somehow beating the system,"Paris Review. "Sailing at sunset with lots of loot and freedom. But of course, it was enough of the hip to realize, a minute later, that [their death] was more or less compulsory. »

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Gift

The Gift movie {happy alternate movie endings}

Throughout this psychological thriller, the public does not know who pity the revenge of adolescents victims of intimidation (Joel Edgerton) On his former despot, or the intimidator (Jason Bateman) Who, now grown, is about to receive the most cruel form of Karma. And, while the public can expect a kind of twisted end to this story, they are not prepared for the actual end, in which the character of Jason Bateman receives a DVD on his porch, showing his wife, played byRebecca Hall, Victim of sexual abuse by Edgerton's character months earlier.

Then, it is questioned whether his newborn son is really clean or the product of this sexual abuse. However, the original end, Edgerton instilled a little more hope in history: the public sees a flashback to the assault, but the character of Edgerton decides not to pass there even a mystery is still enough To convince the public that hemay still took place.

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Snape One: a story of Star Wars

Rogue One a Star Wars Story Movie Poster {Happy Alternate Movie Endings}

Despite theStars wars The franchise affinity for the suites, it does not seem to enjoy killing its main characters. Example: this tale 2016, featuringFelicite Jones andDiego LunaWhere, in the version you may know, directorGareth Edwards Feeling no remorse as he kills the heteroclite group of Heroes' Felicity Jones, one by one as they try to invade the Scarif planet. At the end of the film, the Etoile in orbit above Scarif where the two main characters still try to carry out their mission. When the Death Star gives a shot on the planet, he kills the two main characters.

In the original version, however, the two main characters, as well as the rest of the group, make the planet just to the notch of time, survive the mission. However, it is true, waiting for a happy ending of aStars wars Film at this point seems to be a stupid business.

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Fly

The Fly movie poster {happy alternate movie endings}

After an experience that went wrong, Scientist Seth Brundle, played byJeff Goldblum, Accidentally confuses with one of its subjects, a flight test. Like the man to fly, his girlfriend, Veronica dock that he turned, played byGeena Davis, Realizes that it is pregnant with a child who is sure to be part of the insects. The end of the Witnesses of the Film Quaife killing brownle and in the face of an uncertain future for her and the baby to the fly. In the alternative end, however, things seem a little less dark, with quaife kill brownle but realizing that it is pregnant with the child of his former lover, and not brownle. However, despite his desire to keep the end to more edifying, directorDavid Cronenberg knew that the public was not likely to buy a happy end after the death of Brundle, and so he chose to go for a step so happy forever.

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Chinese district

Chinatown movie poster {happy alternate movie endings}

Released in 1974, this movie featuringJack Nicholson andFAYE DUNAWAY Can win the most depressing price end of all time. Throughout the film, a series of destinies weave their way through the main life of the character, and they all come together at the end of the movie to create a really heartbreaking finish. On the one hand, the public discovers that Evelyn (played by Dunaway) indeed been sexually assaulted by his father, and that his daughter is the product of this aggression.

At the end, Evelyn is murdered by the police after trying to kill his father while his daughter is considered a prisoner. Then Jack Gittes (played by Nicholson) is the only one in the middle of the street after witnessing the death and removal of those he had sworn to protect. However,Robert Towne of Original scenario, the heroes came out victors, with metering gittes of the Father of Evelyn and the trio forging a path to a new life without plotting and tracing.

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The Godfather

The Godfather happy alternate movie endings
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DespiteThe sponsor of The remaining end of the most violent time, there is not a drop of blood to be considered the credits scroll on the screen. The end was done to be even softer when Michael Corleone (played byAl Pacino) Is at his wife (played byDiane KeatonAnd told him that he did not commit crimes. So, as she realizes the lie, the door is slammed on her face, and the public understands that it is only the beginning of the ravages of this family of the mafia. Although, as it is, directorFrancis Ford Coppola In fact pulled an alternative end, where the public sees his wife, Kay, lighting candles at the church and pray for the recovery of her husband the soul but now he does not sail.

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The thing

The Thing happy alternate movie endings
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In the end of this film, about foreign metamorphs attack an Antarctic research base, directorJohn Carpenter has the two main characters, played byKurt Russell andKeith David, the twohave a way for survival-Bien the movie cuts on the pair share a scotch bottle, make sure to freeze to death or kill the other suspicion on which is human and who is actually a metamorphous. However, the movie publisher,Todd Ramsay, Was so paranoid about this end who had made another shot, in which the character of Russell is saved and brought back to civilization, where he is definitely proved that he is human.

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The talented Mr. Ripley

The Talented Mr. Ripley happy alternate movie endings
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At the end of this film, murderous psychopath Tom Ripley, played byMatt Damon, Is on a boat with his male lover and a woman who knew him by another name, threatening to ruin his supposedly acquired new identity. Approaching dangerously to have one's secret life revealed to her lover, he decides to strangle her lover, stone, played byJack Davenport, in order tokeep one's secrets to himself.

However, in the new version byPatricia HighsmithThis scene never arises and Ripley is the place left with an infinite feeling of paranoia as to when its actions will finally be discovered. So, not exactly a happy end, but without bloodshed.

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Infiltrators

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While the original Chinese version of this film,Infernal, Ended on a clearly happier note, directorMartin Scorcese Decided to add a more bloody touch to a movie already full of them.

In the Chinese version, the lead, represented byANDY LAU, Manages to escape the detection of those who pursue his criminal acts, and escapes the sunset, while in the American version, the same character, interpreted by Matt Damon, is able to escape the detection, but continues Always on the same criminal path, possibly leading to his assassination at the end of the film.

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Freddy

A Nightmare on Elm Street happy alternate movie endings
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Apparently, the idea of ​​this thriller was inspired by real events, where the victims perished while they suffer from nightmares. And, if the directorWes Craven Would have gotten his way, the film would simply have finished with the main character, Nancy, come back to his normal life after being terrified by Freddy Kruger. Instead, the producers of the film wanted the promise of another film of the series, so they allowed Kruger to have a last fear before closing the curtain on the film.

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Intrusion

The Astronaut's Wife happy alternate movie endings
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As for the original end goes, a destiny much more interesting the main characters arrives, played byJohnny Depp andCharlize Theron. In the version you may have watched, the character of Depp from a space mission went wrong, and his wife, Theron, begins to notice that something is wrong with him. After discovering that an extraterrestrial host controlled, the film ends with the host of Depp's corpse (she was forced to kill him) jumping to the Body of Theron; The audience sees her in supervising her family without a mistrust while going to school. However, in the end of a slightly more optimistic alternative, after killing her husband, theron begins to see that her birth baby can contain the extraterrestrial host.

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