Poll: I need help deciding the ending to a movie me and my friends are doing.

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Professor Idle

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clipse15 said:
Professor Idle said:
zHellas said:
You could show the Happy Ending, but have it then reveal to be just a hallucenatory vision of the Main Character in a seedy motel room as he is starting to feel the effects of cocaine overdose.

OR have the whole film turn out to be the hallucination of a filthy hobo.
That's actually really clever. The first suggestion that is. No-one likes a dream ending.
Isn't that basically the ending to the brother's bloom?
All I meant is it would be better if the sad ending came as more of a shock after the audience thought the protagonist was going to have a happy ending, as opposed to the whole story being fairly meaningless as it was all conjured up in the imagination of a hobo.
 

ICanBreakTheseCuffs

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how about one where the love interest stabs the protaganist in the stomach and reveals that see was working for someone who wants to kill the antagonist and can't have him getting in the way and the camera zooms in as the main chara. falls to the ground and we watch the love interest walk away as ambulances are heard in the distance and black.later you see the protagonist in the hospital talking about how he/she could have been betrayed and seemingly dies.

SEQUEL!
 
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Are you on a tight deadline? If not, why not try filming both endings, and screen them to see which one fits better with the movie overall. If there is a deadline, film the overdose ending. Personally, I've gotten tired of happy endings in movies.
 

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superbatranger said:
Are you on a tight deadline? If not, why not try filming both endings, and screen them to see which one fits better with the movie overall. If there is a deadline, film the overdose ending. Personally, I've gotten tired of happy endings in movies.
Deadline? We´re just a bunch of friends doing alittle movie together. Hell, we haven´t even started filming yet.
 
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awesomeClaw said:
superbatranger said:
Are you on a tight deadline? If not, why not try filming both endings, and screen them to see which one fits better with the movie overall. If there is a deadline, film the overdose ending. Personally, I've gotten tired of happy endings in movies.
Deadline? We´re just a bunch of friends doing alittle movie together. Hell, we haven´t even started filming yet.
Then why not film both endings?
 

awesomeClaw

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Good news guys, i can give you a little sneak peak at the beggining of the movie (In script form, ofcourse)

Act 1.

Sullivan is sitting at a table, loading his gun.
Sullivan(Monologue) ?Drug addictions are funny things. You convince yourself you don´t need that stuff. You´re independent. Yet you keep taking em`. In larger and larger doses, over and over again?But soon enough, you realize that you?re not taking the drug?the drug is taking you.?

Camera shows Sullivan in a room sitting in a chair surrounded with a 2 mob members (Flashback)
Sullivan:?Look, guys, I?m trying to kick the habit. I don´t want anything to do with these kind of things anymore, okay??
Mob member:?Except you know it´s not that easy. You can´t just leave the family. The family decides if it wants you to leave. You don´t have a say in this?


Sullivan:?Oh really? And what if a police rapport accidentally slips in to the police files disclosing all your drug rackets?? Sullivan looks aggressively at the member while speaking.
Mob member #2:?Then, our drug rackets reposition and no more harm is done than if you were to try to shoot us right now. And you would likely suffer a horrible ?Accident? involving a high fall.?

Sullivan looks down on the floor.
Mob member: ?But the kingpin´s decided he likes you. He´s going to give you a shot few others get. If you complete one last teeny weenie assignment, he´ll let you off the hook, Scott free. What do you say about that??
Sullivan:?That sounds fabulous. What´s the catch??


Mob member:?You?ll see. Meet us at the old shutdown school.?

Cut back to Sullivan loading his gun. He finishes loading it and cocks it. He then puts it in his pocket.


?My name is Sullivan. I?m the worst kind of scum on earth. I´m the kind of man who would sell his own grandchildren for a handful of coke. I´ve tried to kick the coke before... i have...It´s a lot harder than you might think. At first, you´re fine?but after a couple of hours?death would seem better than what you´re going through. What´s worse is?I?m an FBI agent. The sort of man who is supposed to be stopping drug dealers, not helping them avoid the cops. But this time, I?m really going to kick the coke. I´ve decided to stop helping the mob?nothing good could ever come out of those guys. This is it. One last assignment, then I?m done?no more coke, no more mobs?just me and my career, that´s all.?

While Sullivan is saying all this, he is also walking slowly to his apartment exit, putting on his Jacket and then leaving.


Camera cuts to black.


?Course´, that?s what I said last time??

What do you think?
 

I Max95

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i dont like to be depressed so i chose the happy ending
i never like stories where nobody wins
 

furry-ryuu-ken

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Make him defeat the bad guy, as he's kissing his love the bag guy gets up and shoots him then falls over dead, and have it end there to keep people intrested in the story.
 

Hansinkdu

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Coke is a major player in this huh? Will he succumb to his addiction or triumph over it... only the ending will tell. hehe
 

captain awesome 12

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Mr.Squishy said:
captain awesome 12 said:
He kills the antagonist, gets the girl, but overdoses on cocaine because he can't stand the memory of killing the guy.
Either go with this or have the protagonist killed off by the big bad, and then the chick kills him to avenge the protagonist.
Edit: Or have both the protagonist and the heroine die at the hands of the big bad's mafia goons, since he sounds like a real powerful kingpin.
Edit2:electric boogaloo: Have the kingpin kill the heroine, and blind with fury the protagonist charges him with an improvised sharp/pointy weapon. He manages to mortally wound the kingpin, but ends up dead himself due to gunshots. Yes yes, it's a "everyone dies" kind of ending, big whoop, wanna fight about it?

Agreed. I hate those "all good" endings. That ain't life! There has to be something that goes wrong, something bad that counteracts the good. Something to keep the audience guessing, but it also has to finish off the story too. Things have to be wrapped up but still have a bit of controversy. Kind of like the end of Inception.
 

Standby

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Always go for the 'sad' ending in my opinion.
In this case being the overdose, however if you feel that's too dark why not have the antagonist and protagonist die at the end (e.g the protagonist becomes mortally wounded in the final scene).
 

i don't know

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um I think it depends if you want the movie to be public or not, if it's for your class then the happy ending, if for the internet, the dark ending.