# Final film shot
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 21, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764 "2020-01-21T19:38:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/41 "2020-01-22T05:47:17Z")
The one that I and others swear they’ve seen, but there’s no evidence of it on any current release. At the end of Vanishing Point (1971) the car is shown driving through the desert obscured by the heat waves, then suddenly disappears! Speculation is that’s it the Mandela Effect because of the photographer disappearing at the end of Blow-Up (another great ending shot), but I swear I saw it!
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### Author:  [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/42 "2020-01-22T06:01:49Z")
From the handful of Western movies in my collection:
_Repulsion_ - The zoom into the photo of Carol and the look she’s giving her father.
\*Rollerball \*- The freeze frame of Jonathan E.
_Two Lane Blacktop_ - The slow motion shot of The Driver and film getting caught in the projector and melting. Kids nowadays wouldn’t get it. Same with the film breaking in the projector in Gremlins, that I seem to recall they replaced in some of the video releases.
_The Andromeda Strain_ (1971) - The rapidly increasing zoom in to the virus, then flashing 601
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### Author:  [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/43 "2020-01-22T06:51:16Z")
_Gallipoli_. From the whistle, to the charge, to close up of running without a rifle, to the final shot. Freeze frame. Roll credits.
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### Author:  [@steepone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steepone)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/44 "2020-01-22T06:55:55Z")
not a movie but the final shot of Blackadder Goes Forth, when the men go over the top from the trenches then it fades to the fields of poppies is one I’ll remember for a long time, specially as it came quite unexpectedly in what was up to then completely a comedy
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/45 "2020-01-22T07:01:57Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#):
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> Not exactly Hitchcock [_NBN_] at his most subtle 😉
Great poster/post combo! 🙂
Another funny one, at the end of _Frenzy_, as we hear “Mr. Rusk…You’re not wearing your tie”, a large trunk - containing a likely dead body - slams to the floor as the final image.
> [@lingyi](#):
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> _Repulsion_ - The zoom into the photo of Carol and the look she’s giving her father.
Yeah [that kid’s face](https://youtu.be/z3SsgSqjOuo?t=6209) always gave me the willies.
Chief running off (and disappearing into) the early morning darkness in _One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest_. Also really like that saw melody in the Indigenous music score.
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### Author:  [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/46 "2020-01-22T07:12:20Z")
When I first saw the movie in the 80’s, I thought Carol’s stare was to show the insanity that would come later. It was only when I rewatched the movie when it was released on Blu-Ray I realize it was madness, but not the insanity kind!
Not a final scene, but Carol slashing at the landlord, then stopping and continuing freaks me out even now. OMG, the look in her eyes!. I watched \*Repulsion \*during the time when I was into gore films, but this scene bugged more me than anything else.
Edit: I really encourage everyone to watch the full movie, especially on the gorgeous Blu-Ray so I’ll just leave the look as, when you step on a bug and it’s still moving no matter how many times you think you’ve positively squished it! That look! :eek:
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/47 "2020-01-22T07:46:09Z")
At the end of the _The Terror_ ('63), Jack Nicholson’s kissing resulted in a [molten-beyond-recognition face!:eek:](https://youtu.be/kZbNEakwXVQ?t=4714)
I like the shot of JN looking like he’s about to gag.😛
[Homer] mmmmmm ca-ra-melllllllll… [/Homer]
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### Author:  [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/48 "2020-01-22T07:51:55Z")
The final couple of minutes from “[The Long Good Friday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdRkhzDmxvY)” Zero words, tons of dialogue.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/49 "2020-01-22T13:10:36Z")
> [@dorvann](#):
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> The final shot of _Psycho_ with Norman Bates sitting in the chair with a voiceover by “MOTHER” about how she wouldn’t hurt a fly signifying her personality as taking over Norman while it fades to Marion Crane’s car being pulled from the swamp.
And for just a few quick frames, there is a skull superimposed over his face…
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### Author:  [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/50 "2020-01-22T13:47:13Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> Freeze-frame at the end of _Thelma and Louise._
Roger Ebert downgraded the film from four stars to three and a half due solely to this shot not being held long enough before cutting to the credits.
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### Author:  [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/51 "2020-01-22T13:55:13Z")
The end of “Silence of the Lambs,” with Hannibal slowly walking behind his “old friend for dinner…”
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” - Donald Sutherland’s scream.
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### Author:  [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/52 "2020-01-22T16:10:34Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#):
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> … “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” - Donald Sutherland’s scream.
Came on this morning to mention this one. I keep forgetting Veronica Cartwright is in that movie. Her characters have been through some wringers, especially at the hands/claws of aliens: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUXHB5U-Vl4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUXHB5U-Vl4)
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/53 "2020-01-22T16:22:38Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#):
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> “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” - Donald Sutherland’s scream.
Heh - always wondered if that was borrowed from the [scream](https://youtu.be/5T2BiSAaNYM?t=165) in _The Tenant_.
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### Author:  [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/54 "2020-01-22T16:32:03Z")
“No!!! What happens next???” - my reaction the first time I saw _The Birds_ as the car slowly drives away and “The End” shows up.
Actually it doesn’t say “The End” - it just … ends.
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### Author:  [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/55 "2020-01-22T16:42:50Z")
Can’t remember the exact final frame, but the last shot of _Brazil_ works pretty well.
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### Author:  [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/56 "2020-01-22T16:59:43Z")
The last shot of Cop Hater (based on the first 87th Precinct novel). The killer is taken off to be processed, and the cops just continue going their more mundane tasks - answering phones, doing paperwork, etc - as the credits roll. It’s like the movie never really starts or ends, we just kind of sit in while they work on one case.
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### Author:  [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/57 "2020-01-22T17:07:33Z")
The original “The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3”: Walter Matthau saying “gesundheit!”
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### Author:  [@BeagleJesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeagleJesus)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/58 "2020-01-22T17:52:23Z")
I loved the end of Edge of Tomorrow when Tom Cruise approaches Emily Blunt to explain the time loop for the last time, then he just pauses and chuckles.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_rpyhMRVJc)
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### Author:  [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/59 "2020-01-22T18:14:21Z")
Norma Desmond’s close-up at the end of Sunset Boulevard
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### Author:  [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-film-shot/846764/60 "2020-01-22T18:28:58Z")
“Silencio.”
\*\*Mulholland Dr.
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