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

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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!!