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Why does evil never prevail in them? Do happy endings give people satisfaction even when they're highly improbable? Shouldn't there be a balance as to how films usually end? It feels like 90% of the stuff I watch nowadays has to have an extremely "positive" climax and it's monotonous for me.
Thoughts?
Welcome to Hollywood. :3
life sucks
people dont want to be reminded of this when watching movies
It does sometimes.
Anyone ever watch/read Goosebumps?
It's a Wonderful Life?
though ive found that only Horror's seem to let the badguys win, or atleast let them survive for another day/movie.
goosebumps was classic lol used to watch that all the time as a kid.
yeahOriginally Posted by Coral_Sex
when i was like 10
Huh?
While I don't know if you'd count it as "Evil" winning, plenty of movies have not happy endings... whether it's the girl and guy not getting together or people dying or what have you.
I'd say watch more movies.
Just saying
No good movie (story) has a discernable good vs evil, its just too cliche'.
So that could be your answer.
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The term you're looking for is the "hollywood ending", but when I looked it up on wikipedia all I got was the movie of the same name
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Ending
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Foreign films seem to break this "happy ending cycle" but even their cinema is prevalent with cliche storylines followed by even more cliche endings. For this very reason, some of my favourites at the moment are Gaspar Noe's films. His work seems to break this monotony in a unique way.The term you're looking for is the "hollywood ending", but when I looked it up on wikipedia all I got was the movie of the same name
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Ending
This is subjective. I've watched plenty of films that weren't cliche at all but did follow a noticeable pattern of isolating the "good" events from the "bad" ones.
Last edited by Vein; 02-04-2010 at 06:05 AM.
i liked in the descent where noone survived.
but then the Americans changed it so she did
"When I see your face, I wanna be in the human race. You're beautiful it's true, I want to be beautiful like you."
I dunno man, like 40% of the movies in my DVD collection have "unhappy" endings in one way or another.
But if youre truly into the whole "good vs evil" taken to a whole new level, then go watch Ichi the Killer.
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i meant hon :[
lol =\
Incoming psychology nerdgasm.
Because "happy" endings are psychologically satisfying to the vast majority of people, whether or not they even realize it. Movies are predominately produced with the intent to make money. Thus being the case, they want what will appeal to the largest number of potential viewers. There are also some movies/playwrights that have no clear "good or bad" premise, like Pulp Fiction or Fight Club just to give a few examples, and that is what makes them such good stories. But to your average directly-to-flim movies, it's all about the dollah dollah bill.
That is some high end stuff.
People like happy stuff?
You just blew my mind.
And you seriously need to contact the media with your expose on how capitalists like money, the population need to know such information.
High end stuff. For someone with a 17% smaller brain, naturally.
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