What are your 3 favourite plot twists? If you’re the first person to mention it, please include a spoiler box describing the twist, no open spoilers please.
I’d say
To be fair, regarding your number 2
we don’t actually know if Keyser Soze even exists
But as double-cross/misdirections go, it is pretty darn good.
One of my favourites is “The Others” where Nicole Kidman and her family are terrorised by hauntings.
when actually it is her and her family that are the ghosts but she doesn’t realise it
Borden has a twin brother
Tyler Durden is the Narrator’s alter ego
It’s all in the killer’s mind
The Sixth Sense. Do I even have to post the twist? I think everyone knows it by now.
From the TV show Hu$tle, the episode “The Lesson”
The show is about scamming an African warlord with some fake currency. There’s also a second subplot about scamming a greedy banker. The two scams dovetail into a double twist when we learn they were actually scamming a new member of their own crew
OP, did you know all three of your spoilers showed up on the preview (when we mouse over thread titles in Cafe Society list… I always do that to see if I should open it).
Wonder if the Neo-Dope (powered by Discourse) will do that?
My favorite? I was going to say No Way Out, but reread the OP and realized it could be a book as well. Then I’d say Ender’s Game… …when he discovers that it’s his childhood friends that he’s leading into battle.
For books, I’ll go with the twist in Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The killer is the book’s narrator, who is helping Poirot investigate
Been awhile since I read the book, but isn’t another aspect of the plot twist of Ender’s Game…
…Ender thought he was playing yet another battle simulation (or, game) but it was actually the real battle against the aliens
Another plot twist from the literary world: An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge: [spoiler]A man is being hung by Union soldiers from a bridge. But the noose snaps and he falls into the river! His senses sharpened, he evades gunfire, swims to safety, and makes an arduous 30 mile journey back home. Except…
…he actually just hallucinated the whole thing in the moment between being dropped and the noose snapping his neck.
I remember reading that story in school and going “woahhhh”.[/spoiler]
Can’t believe this hasn’t been mentioned yet: Citizen Kane
Rosebud is the sled
Watchmen
“Dan, I’m not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I’d explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”
Damon Knight story (and The Twilight Zone episode) “To Serve Man.” “It’s a cookbook!”
Harlan Ellison story “Croatoan.” Not sure how to explain it. Easier just to read the story.
Steve Martin movie The Man With Two Brains. [spoiler]Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: You. You’re the elevator killer. Merv Griffin.
Merv Griffin: Yeah.
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: Why?
Merv Griffin: I don’t know. I’ve always just loved to kill. I really enjoyed it. But then I got famous, and - it’s just too hard for me. And so many witnesses. I mean, everybody recognized me. I couldn’t even lurk anymore. I’d hear, “Who’s that lurking over there? Isn’t that Merv Griffin?” So I came to Europe to kill. And it’s really worked out very well for me. [/spoiler]
And nobody has yet mentioned The Empire Strikes Back?
I am your fatherWell, it was a mind-blowing twist at the time! :)
So I think it is more than that. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think that:
Nearly all of his battle simulations were real battles leading to the final confrontation, which he wins and they tell him was real.
Am I right? I know my mind was blown when I read the book. I am glad I managed to stay spoiler free until I read it(around 2008 or so).
I See You. I See You (2019) - IMDb
Mysterious things are happening in the house because they don’t realize they have “phrogs,” i.e. two people who decided to sneak in and live, quietly, in their attic for awhile.
and
Unbeknownst to the other, one of the phrogs begged to go along because he wanted revenge on the father of the family.
and
The father, who is a policeman, is the bad guy.
I don’t.
I think my favorite is the first Saw.
I will also say The Visit.
and that movie has a nice property where it was filmed which is unrelated but still something I will remember.
Bruce Willis dies at the beginning of the movie. The kid is the only one who can see him, because he sees dead people.
I liked the twists (there was more than one) in No Way Out.
The Sixth Sense was released in China under a different title:
“He’s a Ghost!”