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7 alternate movie endings, that finally saw the light of day
Topic Started: Fri Jan 9, 2015 5:21 pm (104 Views)
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Director Cameron Crowe announced yesterday that the unseen original ending of Vanilla Sky, his 2001 cult classic starring Tom Cruise, will be included on the upcoming Blu-Ray edition. These days, when a studio scraps and replaces the ending of a film, the jettisoned footage is almost guaranteed to show up as a DVD or Blu-ray extra the following year.

But that wasn’t always so. In earlier eras of film, endings left on the cutting room floor were rarely found again. Film scholars are still searching (likely in vain) for the final reel of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) and Billy Wilder’s original ending to Double Indemnity (1944). Frank Capra shot between two and four different endings for Meet John Doe (1941). Stanley Kubrick cut a final scene from The Shining (1980) and a climactic pie fight from Dr Strangelove (1983), neither of which will probably ever see the light of day. But like Vanilla Sky, there are a few films from the ‘80s and ‘90s with alternate endings that went unseen for years before emerging on home video or bootleg. Below, watch 6 original endings that were cut from classic films.

see them here
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Not from the same period as these, but in The Lord Of The Rings dvd's (the appendices) it's mentioned that the theatrical version endings were a bit shorter than the extended cut dvd version. Must admit that we prefer the longer endings especially in the third film, as it neatly wraps-up the various storylines that had been established. It brings closure to the stories, which in some cases the characters follow new paths, leaving a possibility for continuation sequels !!

For instance in the movie Rambo: First Blood it shows Rambo dying, but in the actual ending Rambo survives for at least 3 more sequels. In the Bourne movies we see Bourne leap off a roof and into the river, and sure they could have ended the movie right there and leave it up in the air as to whether he lived or not, but it ends with him very much alive and kicking for the surface. And I understand that more Bourne movies have been planned !!

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the last time we see them they are rushing from a building with guns cocked and ready, but the picture freezes and we just hear a lot of gunfire. Sure we can assume that they're dead, but we don't know that for sure, by some fluke they may have survived. Killing-off major character(s) is fine if it's right for the storyline, but it also means that the franchise is effectively killed-off with them !!
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