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Spoiler alert: Carrie’s No. 1!
Is it E.T. leaving in a spaceship or Butch and Sundance going down in a hail of bullets? The London Times has come up with its list of the top 20 movie endings of all time. The critics’ favorite actually isn’t E.T. or Butch and Sundance … but the ending of Carrie.
1) Carrie, Brian De Palma, 1976 “At the end of this Stephen King adaptation, Carrie (Sissy Spacek), who begins the film doused in the blood of her first period, has ended it drenched in the blood of pigs at a high-school prom. Unfortunately for her classmates, Carrie’s womanhood brought with it telekinetic powers, which she then uses to wipe out most of them - and herself - in a blaze of purifying flame. Sue (Amy Irving), one of the few survivors, visits Carrie’s freshly dug grave. She lays flowers. Carrie’s arm thrusts out of the soil and grabs her. A million stomachs leap. Sue wakes up. It was just a nightmare, but one that will never end.”
2) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 3) Casablanca 4) E.T. 5) Chinatown 6) Breakfast at Tiffany’s 7) Some Like It Hot 8) The Italian Job 9) The Usual Suspects 10) The Sixth Sense
Incidentally, readers had their own ideas when it comes to favorite movie endings. Many thought it a crime that the newspaper failed to mention Silence of the Lambs or Halloween.
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