The drone of the airliner’s engines as Kurt flies away.
As to whether or not Toad made it out of Vietnam alive, we can only speculate. Pvt Cacciato he wasn’t.
I agree, although I’m torn as to whether we’re supposed to think he’d always been in the picture, e.i. Grady’s line “You’ve always been the caretaker”.
Animal House: “Senator & Mrs. John Blutarsky, Washington, DC”.
Also, The Last Emperor could have had a great final scene: Puyi finds his old cricket cage hidden in the dragon throne, hands it to the little boy who opens it and a cricket emerges, little boy looks up and Puyi has vanished. However, they ruined it by tacking on the scene of the tour groups milling around the throne - a scene that seemed to be added just to pass on the date of Puyi’s death.
Actually, I thought that was great. Everything that had happened and now it is just a tourist attraction.
+1. Zihuatanejo. Hope.
I enjoyed the Family Guy parody of the final scene.
PETER’S NOTE: Do you remember the name of the town in Mexico I told you about?
CLEVELAND: thinks about it DAMMIT!
Cut to Peter in Zihuatenejo, working on his boat, looking up every few minutes hoping that Cleveland is coming.
+1
A stunning ending to a thought-provoking, highly underrated and under-watched movie…
Oooh, good one! I forgot about this one.
All that time wasted fueling rage . . . this movie teaches a complex and important lesson.
Schindler’s List - incredible sense of closure after after one of the most gut-wrenching movies ever. Bawling in my seat…
Lots of good ones mentioned already. I’ll list more…
The Matrix - Neo hangs up phone and flys up into the sky as Rage Against the Machine kicks in.
Good Will Hunting - “I gotta go see about a girl.”
I thought it was a good ending too. The tourists showed that Puyi and the Chinese Empire had faded into history.