# Favorite final scenes/shots of movies
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** movies
**Created:** [August 13, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940 "2020-08-13T00:23:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/1 "2020-08-13T00:23:03Z")
Apocalypse Now. “The horror.”
Five Easy Pieces. Nicholson gets in the truck and we watch it slowly pull away
Prince of the City. The last shot of Ciello.
1. The Star Child.
Cutter’s Way. A gunshot, then cut to black.
Cuckoo’s Nest. Chief running away.
I’ll think of more, but enough to start.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/2 "2020-08-13T00:28:58Z")
One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach: all the damn vampires.
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### Author:  [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/3 "2020-08-13T00:47:32Z")
Queen Christina - that long, enigmatic closeup
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### Author:  [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/4 "2020-08-13T00:52:52Z")
The Player. The end of the movie in the movie, with Julia Roberts, and the real end. “Traffic was a bitch!”
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/5 "2020-08-13T00:58:36Z")
_Sweet Smell of Success_
Susie walking boldly into the morning sun, escaping J.J.'s grasp forever.
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/6 "2020-08-13T01:25:24Z")
“Round up the usual suspects…”
“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
…
(Interesting article [here](https://www.scpr.org/blogs/offramp/2013/07/01/14145/casablanca-a-beautiful-relationship-that-starts-at/#:~:text=The%20very%20end%2C%20when%20Claude,done%20and%20Bogart%20recorded%20it.): “Bogart says a line that wasn’t even in the original screenplay; Hal Wallis supposedly came up with it after filming was done and Bogart recorded it”.)
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### Author:  [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/7 "2020-08-13T02:14:59Z")
You’ll never forget the end of On The Beach.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/8 "2020-08-13T02:17:50Z")
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Fuego!
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### Author:  [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/9 "2020-08-13T02:42:34Z")
You maniacs! You blew it up! God damn you all to hell!
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### Author:  [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/10 "2020-08-13T02:45:03Z")
Or Kiss Me Deadly.
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### Author:  [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/11 "2020-08-13T03:59:37Z")
The breakfast scene in [Big Night](https://youtu.be/v7kOyt9dPB4).
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### Author:  [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/12 "2020-08-13T04:03:32Z")
_The Usual Suspects_ - ‘And like that … he’s gone’
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/13 "2020-08-13T04:13:10Z")
The Long Good Friday. A wordless scene where you watch a whole gamut of emotions play over Bob Hoskins’ face as he realises how screwed he is.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/14 "2020-08-13T04:34:01Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Fuego!
This gets you off the hook for liking the remake of _Night of the Living Dead_
You were dead to me, Lazarus.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/15 "2020-08-13T08:25:52Z")
The final shot of The Third Man. Those who have seen it will know what I’m talking about.
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### Author:  [@its\_the\_daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/its_the_daddy)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/16 "2020-08-13T08:48:19Z")
“Hang on a minute lads, I’ve got a great idea…”
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZCaSyid4m0)
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/17 "2020-08-13T11:37:19Z")
_City Lights_
Heartbreakingly beautiful.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJKfmsuvGHg)
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/18 "2020-08-13T11:55:59Z")
Being There - Chance walks on water.
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### Author:  [@BeagleJesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeagleJesus)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/19 "2020-08-13T12:14:32Z")
Fight Club
“You met me at a very strange time in my life” as buildings fall and _Where Is My Mind_ plays in the background
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### Author:  [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-final-scenes-shots-of-movies/917940/20 "2020-08-13T12:25:19Z")
The end of The Thing. Who is a Thing? One of them? Neither? Both? The ending conversation works for all permutations. Yeah, alright, carpenter has said what he meant. But it’s still fun to think about the others.
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