Twist Ending — Page 3

The "twist ending" thread has gone too long without me posting in it. That ends today. Time to nib this problem in the extremity. Finally a post by the twist in this thread.












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Denouement

What a twist!

BloodnoseThePirate said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Warbler said:

Originally posted by: ricarleite

Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV

Originally posted by: ricarleite
No way. It would have been brilliant, not... creepy and boring like Spielberg's.

HAVE YOU SEEN 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY ??? THAT ENDING WAS RATHER BORING.

Boring?!?! That movie is a masterpiece!! I've seen it several times, and it was never boring at all!

I wouldn't say that the ending is boring, but it is an ending that I can't get. It's too convuluted for me.

Dave travels in his pod to the giant floating monolith, which is actually a stargate, and gets transported a million light years to some interstellar zoo. There in the zoo the aliens observe him, watching him age through the years, before transforming him into some kind of elevated space god.

Of course, I had to skim through the actual book to get the actual meaning behind the ending.

 Wow, I never would have gotten that from the film. But it was entertaining.

That's the great thing about 2001, that's only one interpretation of the ending.  And just because it's in the book doesn't mean it's any more true.  Kubrick and Clarke wrote the book and movie at the same time, and IMHO Kubrick was the one with the genius.  Not to rob Clarke of any glory, I'm just saying Kubrick could have and did have other things in mind than an "alien zoo".  Although I do like that interpretation (I just like others more).

Oh yeah, ummm, no spoilers! :p

ricarleite said:

Oh yeah, Frailty! Underrated movie.

Quoted For Truth!  Who would have thought Paxton + McConaughey = brilliance?  The universe works in mysterious ways...

RedFive said:

BloodnoseThePirate said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Warbler said:

Originally posted by: ricarleite

Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV

Originally posted by: ricarleite
No way. It would have been brilliant, not... creepy and boring like Spielberg's.

HAVE YOU SEEN 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY ??? THAT ENDING WAS RATHER BORING.

Boring?!?! That movie is a masterpiece!! I've seen it several times, and it was never boring at all!

I wouldn't say that the ending is boring, but it is an ending that I can't get. It's too convuluted for me.

Dave travels in his pod to the giant floating monolith, which is actually a stargate, and gets transported a million light years to some interstellar zoo. There in the zoo the aliens observe him, watching him age through the years, before transforming him into some kind of elevated space god.

Of course, I had to skim through the actual book to get the actual meaning behind the ending.

 Wow, I never would have gotten that from the film. But it was entertaining.

That's the great thing about 2001, that's only one interpretation of the ending.  And just because it's in the book doesn't mean it's any more true.  Kubrick and Clarke wrote the book and movie at the same time, and IMHO Kubrick was the one with the genius.  Not to rob Clarke of any glory, I'm just saying Kubrick could have and did have other things in mind than an "alien zoo".  

It wasn't really an alien zoo. It was sort of like an alien lab or something run on automation, carefully constructed from monitored television transmissions, and designed to make him feel at ease before it got to work turning him into the star-child

But all that's on the surface.  The whole movie can be seen as an allegory for humans self-destructive behavior - that our tools we create end up destroying us (hence the famous cut from the bone to the nuclear hub in space, not to mention HAL).  I've always preferred the more metaphorical explanation, or even a religious one.  People forget that Kubrick was very religious.  Here's one explanation:

Dave (along with all humans) want to find out the answers to things, that's why they do everything they do.  They see something they can't explain (monolith [religion/god/nature]) and they do everything they can to find out what it is, or what is all means.  They even go to the edges of the solar system to find the answers, and still get none.  It isn't until he dies, and is in the presence of god, that all is revealed to him in the form of the Star Child.  I'm not religious by any means, but again, it's just one of many, many interpretations. 

If you really want some crazy interpretations, watch it on shrooms - it was like seeing it for the first time!

FFFFFFffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..........

Doesn't pretty much every horror, suspense, or mystery film (and Scooby Doo episode) have a twist?

Isn't the question more along the lines of: Which twists really caught you off guard?

Erm.... Spoilers?