# Best closing scenes in movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 30, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917 "2015-06-30T23:21:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/1 "2015-06-30T23:21:20Z")
To complement the other thread on opening scenes. I’ll start with _The Usual Suspects_ ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/2 "2015-06-30T23:33:57Z")
Assuming you’re not counting the text/static shot at the end, I think the final scene in _Unforgiven_ is just about perfect. “Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.” ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/3 "2015-06-30T23:40:14Z")
Michael Clayton’s last scene, when Clooney basically levels Tilda Swinton, is one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/4 "2015-06-30T23:45:30Z")
The warehouse in _Raiders of the Lost Ark_. The door closing on John Wayne in _The Searchers_. The prison rehearsal in _The Producers_. ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/5 "2015-06-30T23:47:41Z")
The ending of Drive (2011) Ryan Gosling is sat in his car, with the wind blowing, injured, contemplating what to do, and the song A Real Hero (By College & Electric youth) quietly builds up momentum then reaches a crescendo, and he drives away. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/6 "2015-06-30T23:49:36Z")
Sulley’s smile in Boo’s bedroom - Monsters Inc ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/7 "2015-06-30T23:55:04Z")
**Planet of the Apes** - “you maniacs!” **The Third Man** - walking right past him **Big Night**. Secondo wordlessly makes an omelette for his brother Primo. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/8 "2015-06-30T23:55:09Z")
Pulp Fiction. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/9 "2015-06-30T23:56:12Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The warehouse in _Raiders of the Lost Ark_. \ Have a good laugh on me: the first time I saw Raiders, I totally whooshed on the ending. I thought the warehouse was full of bogus Arks, and they were trying to collect all the counterfeit ones that had been stolen over the years. And even though WE knew it was the real deal, the Powers That Be wouldn’t accept what Indy told them the Ark did, so it was consigned to the warehouse. I saw it at a drive-in theater, in the rain, with the windows up and the air was getting thin. The ending of _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_ was really good. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/10 "2015-06-30T23:56:21Z")
You know which one. With the song and the explosions and the cowboy hat (not in that order). ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/11 "2015-07-01T00:10:07Z")
“T’was beauty killed the beast.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/12 "2015-07-01T00:31:11Z")
“The truth is . . . I am Iron Man.” ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/13 "2015-07-01T00:35:27Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > “T’was beauty killed the beast.” Very good! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/14 "2015-07-01T00:40:50Z")
**Rocky**. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/15 "2015-07-01T02:30:59Z")
The usual answer is: Some Like It Hot > [@](#): > > Jerry: But you don’t understand, Osgood! Ohh… > > [Jerry finally gives up and pulls off his wig] > > Jerry: [normal voice] I’m a man! > > Osgood: [shrugs] Well, nobody’s perfect! > > [Jerry looks on with disbelief as Osgood continues smiling with indifference. Fade out] ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/16 "2015-07-01T02:57:16Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > The usual answer is: > > Some Like It Hot Yeah, that one is often cited as the funniest closing line, but I prefer **My Man Godfrey**. Best ever might be **Life of Brian**. ---
**Author:** ![Sasori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sasori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sasori)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/17 "2015-07-01T04:07:53Z")
_Kiss me deadly_ by Robert Aldrich. Mike Hammer’s frantic search for Velda while in the room next door hell breaks lose (she really, really _had_ to open that box, hm?) and the eerie, no, terrifying sounds when they finally get out just in time…only in this case, there is no just in time. Amazing camerawork in an astonishingly uncompromising example of a film noir that was considered “the greatest threat to american youth” by the Kefauver commission in 1955. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/18 "2015-07-01T04:57:07Z")
The original _ **The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3** _ (I’m not sure if they repeated the ending in the unnecessary remake cause I never saw that) by the way the drama finally hinged on something as insignificant as a sneeze. ---
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/19 "2015-07-01T05:10:12Z")
The Silence of the Lambs when Hannibal melts into the crowd and the camera just holds the shot and lets the credits roll long after he’s gone. 1408 - there were two endings for this, but the one where the main character survives. [Queen Christina.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEMPGlMyX2g) [Being There.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfMCeidJ8bg) [Only Yesterday.](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2pkpsf) ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917/20 "2015-07-01T05:20:01Z")
I didn’t like the movie but the twist at the end of Saw was pretty good [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-scenes-in-movies/723917.md?page=2)