A lot of these "ambiguous endings" boil down to fans not thinking happy endings are deep and just arguing that the characters have vivid hallucinations to explain living characters actually dying.
That said, I’ve heard an interpretation of Nope from the assumption that OJ’s survival is ambiguous where it would become a movie with strong and consistent theming… whereas in the alternative, it, uh… doesn’t and kinda sucked. So while I also read it as “OJ lived”, it left it a film I was enormously disappointed by… so I could get why people would wanna believe something else, on that one.
I mean I am sure the really real reason The Florida Project ends with phone footage is Disney would never let a movie crew film there without extensive permissions. He for sure was trying to keep that on the DL 😂
@@npckse8508 There is a part where he's tricked into thinking that he may be a replicant killing humans on the orders of other replicants, but it's really only ambiguous for, like, 1 chapter.
I also thought that Blade Runner 2049 solved the mystery once and for all. If Rachael is a replicant and their daughter is the only human/replicant offspring, Deckard has the be the human. Plus, do replicants age like humans? I assumed that they looked the same age during their entire existence.
10:55 “Holly Jones, played by Melissa Leo’s house” Surely the best performance by a domicile in movie history, or perhaps it’s more to do with grammar and inflection?
Its like when Harry Potter ended. Folks seemed genuinely upset that it was a happy ending. I am not sure what happened to us collectively, but it seems we no longer enjoy happy endings.
0:50 "Sure, the ending to Christopher Nolan's Inception is ambiguous". No, it isn't. Everything is explained in the first 30 minutes of the film. If you think the end is ambiguous, you simply did not either understand or paid attention. We don't care about whether or not we see the face of the kids, we don't care about whether or not the top stops spinning. His totem is his ring. He does not wear his ring, he is not in a dream. The spinning top is his wife's totem. It is stated clear as day. It's insane that so many people just can't understand that.
that no 10 pick on Dark Knight Rises get me. What part of that ending is AMBIGUOUS? Bruce survive, Robin will assume the Dark Knight mantle. And that's that.
I'm going to take a different stance on the ending of The Whale. Slightly different, anyway. It's not Charlie dying. It's Charlie thinking "oh, good, now I can die". The feet lifting off the ground signifies how it feels -- like so much weight has been taken off of his soul that he literally feels like he's floating. And the fact that he looks up to the white light, rather than just seeing it in front of him, is because he's not there yet, but he can see it clearly now. It's not worth thinking too hard about since, one way or another, reconciling with his daughter was the very last thing he did with his life. But the point isn't that he dies right at that very moment -- it's that this is the best he's felt in years and nobody can take that from him.
There are too many "cuts" of Blade Runner and I don't remember if the film I saw in 1982 had the unicorn dream-sequence, but I had taken the debate to be: can a human could become so detached from his feelings like Deckard is portrayed they might fail the Voight-Kampff test as well.
'Dog looks off into the distance because the character we think is dead is actually still alive' is such a trope by now, it feels like they put it into John Wick 4 deliberately. Whether to stoke the flames or give themselves a plausible 'he was alive all along' out for a fifth movie is where the real debate lies.
I always interpretated Charlie floating upwards and gazing up at the ceiling to be him finally dying, just as he finally managed to reconcile with his daughter.
The Inception ending was indirectly debunked by Michael Caine, when asking Nolan about whether he is in a dream or reality as he was confused, Nolan said 'if you're in it's real' so since he is in the final scenes, it's the real world.
I accepted that loki would find Keller at the end of prisoners but my only argument for it is if Keller actually bled out from his gunshot wound and what loki is hearing is just the wind blowing
I'm with Syd Mead on this one, Deckard is absolutely a replicant and almost every character knows it except him. It's my favourite movie of all time and it's just, better, more profound and more beautiful when you realise that he's a replicant. Although the real answer is that an element of ambiguity will always be key.
Even if that were true, which I don't believe to be the case, the sequel would make the whole thing invalid as Deckard clearly aged and lived well past the life expectancy of a replicant. Perhaps without the sequel and the 13 different cuts of the movie, it is more ambiguous, but then as mentioned, the author of the story, to me, is the tie breaker.
Anime bonus round: I occasionally meet Cowboy Bebop fans that insist that the star that blinks out could have belonged to Vicious and Spike maybe survived. Like… bruh.
Blade Runner was a Replicant, Dekkard had the memories of Gaff. Because Gaff was The Last Blade Runner but after an injury to his leg he couldn't continue, so The Department bought a Replicant and put some of Gaffs memories in. Go Back and Watch the scene with Dekkard and Gaff watch how the mirror each other. Then watch the Scene with Dekkard and The Chief, the Chief doesn't trust Dekkard because hes a replicant. And specifically watch the scene with Dekkard, Gaff and the Chief. Everyone misses all the Sub Text in that movie.
The "John Wick is alive!" people, unfortunately, will probably end up being right in the end because the studio has already come out and said they want to continue with the franchise due to the massive box office. Nothing is allowed to end anymore: studios push for sequels and spinoffs for a known IP until it stops making money. John wick 4 was supposed to be the end of the character and Keanu Reaves said as such.
Lost me at, "the ending to Inception is ambiguous". I was expecting it to be on this list as its the all time champion of not actually ambiguous endings.
One famous ending which many consider ambiguous, but it’s not is the Cowboy Bebop one (the anime, not the disappointing TV show). I will not spoil it here, but despite what many say, it is painfully inequivocabile.
John is alive, the only way he can be truly free is for people to think he is dead. that and his wounds were no where near as bad as his previous ones were.
1) When John Wick 5 comes out, your John Wick 4 theory will be debunked. 2) The Blade Runner films leave Deckard's "species" ambiguous (one of Jared Leto's speeches almost explicitly calls this out). 3) Pretty sure everyone understands Butch and Sundance get killed. 4) Brendan Fraser took the ending of The Whale to mean Charlie would finally overcome his problem (I don't think this, but surprised you didn't call this out--it was in his Oscar speech).
We aren't getting a John Wick 5. Lionsgate wants to do it, but the director and Keanu don't. Plus Keanu says he will only do 5 if the director returns, but the director wants a break from John Wick to do other stuff. Keanu refuses to work with another director. Also, the director says the ONLY way the John Wick movies can end is if John Wick dies. How did 4 end? Yeah. There ya go. So if they revive him and go through all this work to bring him back, he'll just be killed off again. Might as well just keep him dead. Oh and then when John WIck 4 had test screenings, the audience were given two endings. One where he lives, and one where he dies. Everyone voted for the dies ending. So there ya go. John Wick is dead.
I feel like going from a cinematic camera to a cellphone camera would be less a story choice and more the restrictions places on filming in a Disney theme park. I've never seen the movie though so I don't know if there are more clues to point towards the dream, or if that sequence was actually filmed in disney
It was actually shot in Disneyland using an iPhone and a skeleton crew and was totally unauthorised hence the low fi realism of the scene. As for the ambiguity the director has stated it’s open to interpretation so WhatCulture are, actually, wrong but that’s certainly not a first …
You could have easily added two: 1) Yes, he's dreaming at the end of "Inception". People debate that it could be real because this time his kids aren't "cut off" as when he's imagined it before, but they are wearing the exact same clothes and are no older. 2) "Birdman" - Oh, this one bothers me. "What could it mean? Do you think he really flew?" No, you dummies. For one thing, no hospital has windows that open so that people can leap out to their deaths. More to the point, it is EXACTLY what the actor talked about earlier: a moment where someone in the split second before they die dreams a whole scenario where they miraculously live and everything is happy.
He is categorically not dreaming at the end 1) his totem is not the top, it's his wedding ring. The top was Mal's 2) showing the top at the end wasn't to call into question whether he was dreaming or not, but to show he stopped caring 3) Nolan told Michael Caine that if he's in the scene, it's real
Using a dream or hallucination as your twist is an extremely lazy (borderline pathetic) story trope and most talented writers stay well away from it. Sure, David Lynch gets away with it but that’s because most of his movies have that dream/nightmare feeling throughout. Otherwise, only a hack or a litteral child would think that it is s good idea to overturn everything the movie has set up in the final 10 min by saying ”TaDa! It was all a dream!!”. So, if the movie doesn’t clearly tell you that it is a dream or an hallucination it’s pretty safe to assume that it isn’t what’s happening on screen.
Wouldn't the definition of ambiguous mean that any movie that people think is ambiguous is? If people are interpreting it more than one way, whether they are correct or not, then it fits the bill. Also I must be the only person in the world who doesn't care a flying flip if Deckard is a replicant or not. It's been a million years since I saw the movie but he was the least interesting being in it, human or otherwise.
That is the question though. Just because I personally find a thing ambiguous doesn't mean that it is. I mean my view of reality doesn't distort it for the rest of the world. So it does bring up an interesting question of when does a thing become ambiguous? Especially if it isn't universally viewed as such.
@@HeroToxikoYes. In the book he's human. But in the film he's a replicant. In the book he's going through a divorce and has a "Replicant" pet sheep on the roof of his apartment block. Replicants are called Androids or "Andys", not Skin Jobs or replicants. He's just a Policeman who moonlights as a bounty hunter, there are no such things as "Blade Runners" in the book. Basically, the book and the film have virtually nothing to do with each other, and trying to use the book to prop up arguments against the film's writer and director is as ridiculous as it is pointless. 🤷♂️
Yeah I've seen people say it was a metaphorical death of Randy the ram character dying and not actually him. I mean I don't buy that but I've heard a few argue it.
I think the point of the ending is that randy in that moment was ready to die, he'd stopped caring and just wanted to be in that moment, be randy the ram in all his glory one last time so the film ends where it does because nothing matters beyond that moment
I have to disagree with Bladerunner. Kind of an odd choice since Scott has confirmed it was always his intent He was a Replicant. Part of what made it vague was the studio recutting the film. If you've seen the director's cuts it is clearer. Ridley did drop hints all through the film and he;s not known for that kind of teasing bait and switch.
I never found it "obvious" that Blake was going to become the new Batman specifically in TDKR; after Batman has been gone for months, if Blake just showed up dressed as Batman people would obviously know its a new "impostor". I think Nolan wanted to imply that Blake was going to simply follow in his vigilante footsteps. Especially after the city acknowledged that Batman "died" to save them all.
Deckard is pretty clearly a replicant, but the point of the movie is that it doesn't matter. This is confirmed in the sequel. Replicants have so closely mimicked humanity that any difference is a quibble. The whole movie is about humanity's fear that they are going to be replaced. It doesn't matter. Replicants have so closely mimicked humanity that they are one and the same. (Given this conclusion, it may seem hypocritical to say that he's "clearly a replicant". The point is that the movie is meaningless if he isn't.)
I was pretty sure deckard was a replicant…just by what I’d heard of a lot of people in involved. I just googled it and it does say that “Scott“ stated in multiple interviews that he was a replicant
So if Scott says that Deckard was actually Jesus, would that make it true? It wasn't shot or acted as if Deckard was a replicant, and it would also screw up the logic of the movie completely. Scott just started to like the idea of Deckard being a replicant somewhere down the line. And then kept reediting the film and putting out new versions.
I’d LIKE if the ending of John Wick 4 actually had him dying and then we follow a different assassin or something, but with the 5th movie being made they either revive him/change the end of 4 so he faked his death or it’ll be a prequel, something I hate when movies do 😢
I really just don’t agree with the first one. Alfred at one point said that he dreamed about the exact scenario that later happened. That alone makes the ending ambiguous. Personally I do think Bruce survived but I don’t buy the whole Robin taking over the Dark Knight mantle. If Bruce is still alive there’s no way his morals would allow anyone else take over for him if he’s still capable of fighting crime. Then again there’s not a real lot that’s accurately depicted in the trilogy anyway.
The "entertainment" we are served today such as a movie do not or can not exist. If there is money to be made there are sequels or TV series or stand alone character origins or a prequel even if the story behind the movie was written with a clear beginning and end. We have too much say in it all.
There was nothing ambiguous about inceptions ending whatsoever. I never even knew it was a debated topic until I discovered youtube videos years after it came out. The top started to stop spinning before it cut out.....like, BLATANTLY....end of story. I loved that film and watched it inumerable times and not once did it ever appear anything else. Again It is blantantly obvious to anyone who has 20 20 vision. Ive heard all the theories and if you believe any of the more logically sound ones, im not saying you're an idiot, you just have really shit eyesight.
John Wick is dead. Just let him be dead. The character had 4 fantastic movies, he completed his story, let him rest now. He got so absolutely demolished in the 4th movie, and was barely hanging on a thread when the duel ended. And instead of rushing him into the hospital, they let him sit down and just slowly bleed. Yeah he is dead. Let that man be reunited with his wife on the other side, instead of bringing him back for another go around. Basically the only thing stopping him from being dead, is the greedy studio. Had this film made less money, they authors could have called it an ending there.
As long as you watch the version of the movie with the origami unicorn, it's obvious that Deckard is a replicant. There would be no way for the other character to know about the unicorn unless Deckard's memories were implanted.
If I remember correctly the origami unicorn is in most versions. the unicorn dream sequence is not. So without the dream sequence, there is much less support that Deckard might be a a replicant.
@@magnusbergqvist2123 I couldn't remember i it was the origami unicorn or the dream unicorn that wasn't in some versions. :) But yeah, if you have both unicorns, he's pretty obviously a replicant.
That's because, Nexus 1 through 6 model replicants were genetically coded to have a very short lifespan, just like they couldn't have babies either. Rachel and Rick were prototype Nexus 7s. "More human than human". 🤷♂️
@@jamesianhutchison1165 Really, so they age like normal people and become infirm? All in one generation? Nah. It was shot one way and then recut into other ways.
This is what happens when people, who don't really pay attention or want a movie to end like they think they should, spend too much time "researching" on the interwebs.
For John Wick there's actually more evidence he lives. Remember the doctor who fixes John up in the first film. Where did he ask John to shoot him because the wounds were convincing but not mortal?
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A lot of these "ambiguous endings" boil down to fans not thinking happy endings are deep and just arguing that the characters have vivid hallucinations to explain living characters actually dying.
“But what if it was all just a story that someone imagined?”
Yeah, of course it could be. That’s how *fiction works*.
That said, I’ve heard an interpretation of Nope from the assumption that OJ’s survival is ambiguous where it would become a movie with strong and consistent theming… whereas in the alternative, it, uh… doesn’t and kinda sucked.
So while I also read it as “OJ lived”, it left it a film I was enormously disappointed by… so I could get why people would wanna believe something else, on that one.
The point about Bruce faking his death could've been supported by the fact Lucius discovered the autopilot on the Bat Plane was fixed.
@@olliesmith2890Ok, i didn't remember that part. But that's no reason to call me a bugger 😕
@@olliesmith2890 I know. I was kidding.
Questioning if Butch and Sundance died at the end is like asking if Lincoln really died after being shot at ford theatre.
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Butch like, Billy the kid may have survived to old age, but there is reasonable doubt about it.
@@rvhill69 Actually the knowledge I have about Butch and Sundance only come from this movie so it might not be accurate at all.
I mean I am sure the really real reason The Florida Project ends with phone footage is Disney would never let a movie crew film there without extensive permissions. He for sure was trying to keep that on the DL 😂
The funny part about bladerunner is deckard being human in the book and just a dirtbag going through a divorce, on top of his bladerunning.
This. Its not enough to tell a good story with a decent ending. Nope got to inject mystique that simply wasn't there during the time of filming.
@@npckse8508 There is a part where he's tricked into thinking that he may be a replicant killing humans on the orders of other replicants, but it's really only ambiguous for, like, 1 chapter.
I also thought that Blade Runner 2049 solved the mystery once and for all. If Rachael is a replicant and their daughter is the only human/replicant offspring, Deckard has the be the human. Plus, do replicants age like humans? I assumed that they looked the same age during their entire existence.
10:55 “Holly Jones, played by Melissa Leo’s house”
Surely the best performance by a domicile in movie history, or perhaps it’s more to do with grammar and inflection?
So if viewers don't like the events of the film, they just say it was a hallucination?
Yup, pretty much. Dorothy went back to Oz over and over again, whenever she wanted to😉
Its like when Harry Potter ended. Folks seemed genuinely upset that it was a happy ending. I am not sure what happened to us collectively, but it seems we no longer enjoy happy endings.
0:50 "Sure, the ending to Christopher Nolan's Inception is ambiguous".
No, it isn't. Everything is explained in the first 30 minutes of the film. If you think the end is ambiguous, you simply did not either understand or paid attention. We don't care about whether or not we see the face of the kids, we don't care about whether or not the top stops spinning. His totem is his ring. He does not wear his ring, he is not in a dream. The spinning top is his wife's totem. It is stated clear as day.
It's insane that so many people just can't understand that.
that no 10 pick on Dark Knight Rises get me.
What part of that ending is AMBIGUOUS? Bruce survive, Robin will assume the Dark Knight mantle. And that's that.
I think they switched to phone filming at the end of Florida Project because filming in Disneyland is not permitted.
I'm going to take a different stance on the ending of The Whale.
Slightly different, anyway. It's not Charlie dying. It's Charlie thinking "oh, good, now I can die". The feet lifting off the ground signifies how it feels -- like so much weight has been taken off of his soul that he literally feels like he's floating. And the fact that he looks up to the white light, rather than just seeing it in front of him, is because he's not there yet, but he can see it clearly now.
It's not worth thinking too hard about since, one way or another, reconciling with his daughter was the very last thing he did with his life. But the point isn't that he dies right at that very moment -- it's that this is the best he's felt in years and nobody can take that from him.
Who actually thought the storm was a shared hallucination in Take Shelter? Absolutely nobody
There are too many "cuts" of Blade Runner and I don't remember if the film I saw in 1982 had the unicorn dream-sequence, but I had taken the debate to be: can a human could become so detached from his feelings like Deckard is portrayed they might fail the Voight-Kampff test as well.
'Dog looks off into the distance because the character we think is dead is actually still alive' is such a trope by now, it feels like they put it into John Wick 4 deliberately. Whether to stoke the flames or give themselves a plausible 'he was alive all along' out for a fifth movie is where the real debate lies.
They have already announced the fifth movie.
I always interpretated Charlie floating upwards and gazing up at the ceiling to be him finally dying, just as he finally managed to reconcile with his daughter.
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The Inception ending was indirectly debunked by Michael Caine, when asking Nolan about whether he is in a dream or reality as he was confused, Nolan said 'if you're in it's real' so since he is in the final scenes, it's the real world.
THANK YOU, Blade Runner would make little sense if Deckard was a replicant. Wasn't then, isn't now.
Exactly! If he was one, why would they make him so inefficient? Why would they have him constantly getting his arse kicked by the other replicants?
That's 100% the type of stuff that i mean. The screenwriter, actor, and original story all portrayed him as a human. @@lindlekindle
Sorry, O.J. is gone. It is improbable that he would have survived to begin with. Then you see him with the sign before him, "Out Yonder".
I accepted that loki would find Keller at the end of prisoners but my only argument for it is if Keller actually bled out from his gunshot wound and what loki is hearing is just the wind blowing
I'm with Syd Mead on this one, Deckard is absolutely a replicant and almost every character knows it except him. It's my favourite movie of all time and it's just, better, more profound and more beautiful when you realise that he's a replicant. Although the real answer is that an element of ambiguity will always be key.
Even if that were true, which I don't believe to be the case, the sequel would make the whole thing invalid as Deckard clearly aged and lived well past the life expectancy of a replicant. Perhaps without the sequel and the 13 different cuts of the movie, it is more ambiguous, but then as mentioned, the author of the story, to me, is the tie breaker.
@@npckse8508 The sequel is gorgeous, masterfully well made and unimpeachably superb. But completely unnecessary.
Anime bonus round: I occasionally meet Cowboy Bebop fans that insist that the star that blinks out could have belonged to Vicious and Spike maybe survived.
Like… bruh.
Blade Runner was a Replicant, Dekkard had the memories of Gaff. Because Gaff was The Last Blade Runner but after an injury to his leg he couldn't continue, so The Department bought a Replicant and put some of Gaffs memories in. Go Back and Watch the scene with Dekkard and Gaff watch how the mirror each other. Then watch the Scene with Dekkard and The Chief, the Chief doesn't trust Dekkard because hes a replicant. And specifically watch the scene with Dekkard, Gaff and the Chief. Everyone misses all the Sub Text in that movie.
The "John Wick is alive!" people, unfortunately, will probably end up being right in the end because the studio has already come out and said they want to continue with the franchise due to the massive box office. Nothing is allowed to end anymore: studios push for sequels and spinoffs for a known IP until it stops making money. John wick 4 was supposed to be the end of the character and Keanu Reaves said as such.
Lost me at, "the ending to Inception is ambiguous". I was expecting it to be on this list as its the all time champion of not actually ambiguous endings.
One famous ending which many consider ambiguous, but it’s not is the Cowboy Bebop one (the anime, not the disappointing TV show). I will not spoil it here, but despite what many say, it is painfully inequivocabile.
Prisoners is a great film.
If John is dead then Part 5 can't be a carry-on but a news story or how he became John Wick we'll see
Enemy with Jake gyllenhaal is a great ambi ending
John is alive, the only way he can be truly free is for people to think he is dead. that and his wounds were no where near as bad as his previous ones were.
His wounds were worse in this one.
I think the ending of The Lobster has been debated..but I’m not on social media (beyond this, obvi) so I’m not sure!
1) When John Wick 5 comes out, your John Wick 4 theory will be debunked. 2) The Blade Runner films leave Deckard's "species" ambiguous (one of Jared Leto's speeches almost explicitly calls this out). 3) Pretty sure everyone understands Butch and Sundance get killed. 4) Brendan Fraser took the ending of The Whale to mean Charlie would finally overcome his problem (I don't think this, but surprised you didn't call this out--it was in his Oscar speech).
We aren't getting a John Wick 5. Lionsgate wants to do it, but the director and Keanu don't. Plus Keanu says he will only do 5 if the director returns, but the director wants a break from John Wick to do other stuff. Keanu refuses to work with another director. Also, the director says the ONLY way the John Wick movies can end is if John Wick dies. How did 4 end? Yeah. There ya go. So if they revive him and go through all this work to bring him back, he'll just be killed off again. Might as well just keep him dead. Oh and then when John WIck 4 had test screenings, the audience were given two endings. One where he lives, and one where he dies. Everyone voted for the dies ending. So there ya go. John Wick is dead.
@@projectpat8807 Uh huh. We'll see.
I feel like going from a cinematic camera to a cellphone camera would be less a story choice and more the restrictions places on filming in a Disney theme park. I've never seen the movie though so I don't know if there are more clues to point towards the dream, or if that sequence was actually filmed in disney
It was actually shot in Disneyland using an iPhone and a skeleton crew and was totally unauthorised hence the low fi realism of the scene. As for the ambiguity the director has stated it’s open to interpretation so WhatCulture are, actually, wrong but that’s certainly not a first …
@@SAMTYLER1974 Lol are the wrong? I seldom see a director that doesn't jump at the chance to imply that their ending is open to interpretation.
You could have easily added two:
1) Yes, he's dreaming at the end of "Inception". People debate that it could be real because this time his kids aren't "cut off" as when he's imagined it before, but they are wearing the exact same clothes and are no older.
2) "Birdman" - Oh, this one bothers me. "What could it mean? Do you think he really flew?" No, you dummies. For one thing, no hospital has windows that open so that people can leap out to their deaths. More to the point, it is EXACTLY what the actor talked about earlier: a moment where someone in the split second before they die dreams a whole scenario where they miraculously live and everything is happy.
He is categorically not dreaming at the end
1) his totem is not the top, it's his wedding ring. The top was Mal's
2) showing the top at the end wasn't to call into question whether he was dreaming or not, but to show he stopped caring
3) Nolan told Michael Caine that if he's in the scene, it's real
@@baileyboo808 4) The kids ARE older.
Nobody is really dead until your movie bombs LOL !!
Uh, She said Deckhard huh huh...
This is a video I can really get behind.
Using a dream or hallucination as your twist is an extremely lazy (borderline pathetic) story trope and most talented writers stay well away from it. Sure, David Lynch gets away with it but that’s because most of his movies have that dream/nightmare feeling throughout. Otherwise, only a hack or a litteral child would think that it is s good idea to overturn everything the movie has set up in the final 10 min by saying ”TaDa! It was all a dream!!”. So, if the movie doesn’t clearly tell you that it is a dream or an hallucination it’s pretty safe to assume that it isn’t what’s happening on screen.
Wouldn't the definition of ambiguous mean that any movie that people think is ambiguous is? If people are interpreting it more than one way, whether they are correct or not, then it fits the bill. Also I must be the only person in the world who doesn't care a flying flip if Deckard is a replicant or not. It's been a million years since I saw the movie but he was the least interesting being in it, human or otherwise.
That is the question though. Just because I personally find a thing ambiguous doesn't mean that it is. I mean my view of reality doesn't distort it for the rest of the world. So it does bring up an interesting question of when does a thing become ambiguous? Especially if it isn't universally viewed as such.
But… the first Robin took the Batman mantle…
John Carpenter’s The Thing is oddly missing
I think this is another internet incubated theory that really nobody ever cared about or considered but seems to have gained traction online.
Atleast 8 of these aren't ambigious at all
Blade Runner: Final Cut makes it pretty clear that Deckard was a replicant.
@@BlackHatCinephile a story that retconned the original? That never happens.
@@BlackHatCinephile neither was Rachel. Look, Ridley Scott himself said on numerous occasions that Deckard was a Replicant.
in the book he's a human so..
@@HeroToxikoYes. In the book he's human. But in the film he's a replicant. In the book he's going through a divorce and has a "Replicant" pet sheep on the roof of his apartment block. Replicants are called Androids or "Andys", not Skin Jobs or replicants. He's just a Policeman who moonlights as a bounty hunter, there are no such things as "Blade Runners" in the book. Basically, the book and the film have virtually nothing to do with each other, and trying to use the book to prop up arguments against the film's writer and director is as ridiculous as it is pointless. 🤷♂️
I would just like to add another Aronofsky film, The Wrestler. Pretty sure Randys heart blew out on landing but ive seen argument against it.
Yeah I've seen people say it was a metaphorical death of Randy the ram character dying and not actually him.
I mean I don't buy that but I've heard a few argue it.
I think the point of the ending is that randy in that moment was ready to die, he'd stopped caring and just wanted to be in that moment, be randy the ram in all his glory one last time so the film ends where it does because nothing matters beyond that moment
I have to disagree with Bladerunner. Kind of an odd choice since Scott has confirmed it was always his intent He was a Replicant. Part of what made it vague was the studio recutting the film. If you've seen the director's cuts it is clearer. Ridley did drop hints all through the film and he;s not known for that kind of teasing bait and switch.
They're already trying to figure out how they're going to walk John Wick's death back.... 🤣
I never found it "obvious" that Blake was going to become the new Batman specifically in TDKR; after Batman has been gone for months, if Blake just showed up dressed as Batman people would obviously know its a new "impostor". I think Nolan wanted to imply that Blake was going to simply follow in his vigilante footsteps. Especially after the city acknowledged that Batman "died" to save them all.
Ambiguous endings >>> Happy endings
Deckard is pretty clearly a replicant, but the point of the movie is that it doesn't matter. This is confirmed in the sequel.
Replicants have so closely mimicked humanity that any difference is a quibble. The whole movie is about humanity's fear that they are going to be replaced. It doesn't matter. Replicants have so closely mimicked humanity that they are one and the same.
(Given this conclusion, it may seem hypocritical to say that he's "clearly a replicant". The point is that the movie is meaningless if he isn't.)
Couldn't even get through this whole video. For half of the movies mentioned I can't even understand what you are saying the ending actually was.
The Florida Project is so freaking good.
Whale ending the funniest thing I’ve ever seen man
'Take Shelter' awesome film!!
I was pretty sure deckard was a replicant…just by what I’d heard of a lot of people in involved. I just googled it and it does say that “Scott“ stated in multiple interviews that he was a replicant
So if Scott says that Deckard was actually Jesus, would that make it true? It wasn't shot or acted as if Deckard was a replicant, and it would also screw up the logic of the movie completely. Scott just started to like the idea of Deckard being a replicant somewhere down the line. And then kept reediting the film and putting out new versions.
I’d LIKE if the ending of John Wick 4 actually had him dying and then we follow a different assassin or something, but with the 5th movie being made they either revive him/change the end of 4 so he faked his death or it’ll be a prequel, something I hate when movies do 😢
I really just don’t agree with the first one. Alfred at one point said that he dreamed about the exact scenario that later happened. That alone makes the ending ambiguous. Personally I do think Bruce survived but I don’t buy the whole Robin taking over the Dark Knight mantle. If Bruce is still alive there’s no way his morals would allow anyone else take over for him if he’s still capable of fighting crime. Then again there’s not a real lot that’s accurately depicted in the trilogy anyway.
The "entertainment" we are served today such as a movie do not or can not exist. If there is money to be made there are sequels or TV series or stand alone character origins or a prequel even if the story behind the movie was written with a clear beginning and end. We have too much say in it all.
Your further speculations about the endings do not in any way equate to facts!
There was nothing ambiguous about inceptions ending whatsoever. I never even knew it was a debated topic until I discovered youtube videos years after it came out. The top started to stop spinning before it cut out.....like, BLATANTLY....end of story. I loved that film and watched it inumerable times and not once did it ever appear anything else. Again It is blantantly obvious to anyone who has 20 20 vision. Ive heard all the theories and if you believe any of the more logically sound ones, im not saying you're an idiot, you just have really shit eyesight.
John Wick is dead. Just let him be dead. The character had 4 fantastic movies, he completed his story, let him rest now. He got so absolutely demolished in the 4th movie, and was barely hanging on a thread when the duel ended. And instead of rushing him into the hospital, they let him sit down and just slowly bleed. Yeah he is dead. Let that man be reunited with his wife on the other side, instead of bringing him back for another go around. Basically the only thing stopping him from being dead, is the greedy studio. Had this film made less money, they authors could have called it an ending there.
As long as you watch the version of the movie with the origami unicorn, it's obvious that Deckard is a replicant. There would be no way for the other character to know about the unicorn unless Deckard's memories were implanted.
If I remember correctly the origami unicorn is in most versions. the unicorn dream sequence is not. So without the dream sequence, there is much less support that Deckard might be a a replicant.
@@magnusbergqvist2123 I couldn't remember i it was the origami unicorn or the dream unicorn that wasn't in some versions. :) But yeah, if you have both unicorns, he's pretty obviously a replicant.
You are wrong.
Pwill himself?
Replicants don't age, so, obviously not a replicant.
That's because, Nexus 1 through 6 model replicants were genetically coded to have a very short lifespan, just like they couldn't have babies either. Rachel and Rick were prototype Nexus 7s. "More human than human". 🤷♂️
@@jamesianhutchison1165 Really, so they age like normal people and become infirm? All in one generation? Nah. It was shot one way and then recut into other ways.
Couldn't make it to the ending of Florida Project
This is what happens when people, who don't really pay attention or want a movie to end like they think they should, spend too much time "researching" on the interwebs.
This videos gonna be really silly when John Wick 5 releases. But since this video is basically baiting arguments, whatever.
The original ending to John Wick 4 did show the dog looking over at him but it was changed.
Inception
For John Wick there's actually more evidence he lives. Remember the doctor who fixes John up in the first film. Where did he ask John to shoot him because the wounds were convincing but not mortal?
Early gang
Gang gang!
Zero hour gang
No John wick ain't dead
You can't film at Disney world, which was why they used a handheld camera. They were guerilla filmmaking.
This is so snobbish and definitely a matter of opinion in some of these points. You're literally arguing with the director of the movie with #5. 😂
It's just fans crying so they push the "dream" or "hallucination" ideas. Those are just your basic white man ending ideas FFS!
The Batman DIED. End of Story.
10 reasons to make another crappie list. I think this channel need a brake