Your Favorite Tragic Ending/Your Favorite Happy Ending?
Your Favorite Tragic Ending/Your Favorite Happy Ending?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1Your Favorite Tragic Ending/Your Favorite Happy Ending?
Posted: 1/18/08 at 2:18pmI have no idea how to answer this question meself but what do ye guys think?
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#2re: Your Favorite Tragic Ending/Your Favorite Happy Ending?
Posted: 1/18/08 at 2:19pmI think yopu should stop posting intil the therapy kicks in.
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mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#2re: Your Favorite Tragic Ending/Your Favorite Happy Ending?
Posted: 1/18/08 at 2:23pm
"Ghost World"
The ending is ambiguous, could be tragic or joyous depending on your interpretation.
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"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
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blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#3re: Your Favorite Tragic Ending/Your Favorite Happy Ending?
Posted: 1/18/08 at 2:30pm
In a movie? That's tough.
Tragic/sad...probably The Purple Rose of Cairo or Imitation of Life.
Happy...The Color Purple and Frequency come to mind. Frequency may not be one of the all-time greats, but that "wish fulfillment" really got to me. The ending of both of these movies had me feeling uplifted while bawling like a baby!
#4re: Your Favorite Tragic Ending/Your Favorite Happy Ending?
Posted: 1/18/08 at 2:31pmMy favorite tragic ending was in the original The Vanishing.
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#5re: Your Favorite Tragic Ending/Your Favorite Happy Ending?
Posted: 1/18/08 at 3:09pm
you are both Cruel......the choice is yours (and I certainly hope you get the help you REALLY need and have the happy ending)
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#6re: Your Favorite Tragic Ending/Your Favorite Happy Ending?
Posted: 1/18/08 at 4:16pmBoth... Forrest Gump. I think I cry harder each time I watch the ending than I ever do in the rest of my life put together, but... in a good way.
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worrell4077
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#7re: Your Favorite Tragic Ending/Your Favorite Happy Ending?
Posted: 1/18/08 at 8:26pm
I don't know if it would be tragic but the ending of Dead Poets Society is one that gets me crying.
Another tragic would be Sweeney Todd.
Happy endings would be Ghostbusters, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, The Producers, Young Frankenstein and alot of other movies.
Oh I forgot the happy ending at the ends of Batman and Robin and Epic Movie... yeah I was happy that they both ended.
AudreyTwoTwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/06
#8re: Your Favorite Tragic Ending/Your Favorite Happy Ending?
Posted: 1/18/08 at 9:19pm
Tragic Ending: Sweeney Todd
Happy Ending: Enchanted. Why? James Marsden gets Idina Menzel! :)
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nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#9re: Your Favorite Tragic Ending/Your Favorite Happy Ending?
Posted: 1/18/08 at 9:50pm
Tragic: Missing
Happy: Moonstruck
Yawper
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/13/04
#10re: Your Favorite Tragic Ending/Your Favorite Happy Ending?
Posted: 1/19/08 at 5:07am
tragic: Au Revoir Les Enfants
happy: Good Will Hunting
#11re: Your Favorite Tragic Ending/Your Favorite Happy Ending?
Posted: 1/19/08 at 7:18am
In what? Literature, media? Since you didn't give specifics...
BOOK: "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult It ensnares me every freaking time...because...well, BECAUSE. I can't say why w/o ruining it. (but the movie will be wretched, esp since Dakota Fanning and her sister are in it when they're not the right ages...Dakota could play the younger sister, but not the older one...)
MOVIE: Hmm...so many. I'm going to just say the movie with the biggest impact at the end that I saw in the past few months. And, it's really lame, but it really got me. *blush* I rented Disney's "Meet the Robinsons" (I think that was the exact title...?) and at the very end, they have this quote come up from Disney itself. And one line--those who saw it know which line---omg, it made the move SLAM into me and become really good when before that, it had just been average. I'm such a sap. ^^;;;
TV: Actually, this is a TV show from Japan, but last year, I watched a weekly show called "Nodame Cantabile" and the end of it was so incredibly poignant because it brought everything back to the beginning. Plus, it was ending, so I was all emotional. FUJI just re-aired the series at the beginning of this month as a marathon, so I spent two days watching it all over and it was still such a good ending. Too many TV shows end badly or on a stereotypical note...
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