The Thomas Crown Affair - Final Scene
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
- My favourite scene! Beats the Chess scene hands down. Needless to say, I am still mesmerized by the whole film after all these years. Strongly recommended. P.S. Don't bother with the pathetic remake that they shoveled on us a few years ago. Go for the original ...
The musical score. The MC Queen smile. Fay's stunning beauty. The intimacy. The sixties smartly dressed people. The plot make this a classic. Steve was the King of Cool.
You summed that up beautifully
Well said
Excactley you've said it all, don't make em like this anymore, or Can't.!
Imo this and the Pierce Brosnan versions are both good. They just didn't ride off together in this one.
Oh those crystal blue eyes. He was and will always be the King of Cool,and one sexy man!!!
This never gets old....masterpiece
@EMS 76 You know thus movie is made in 68..and still memorable for its style and shiny actors
One of the greatest scenes in the history of American movies: the facial expressions, the music.
He added the last caper only to test her loyalty. Their love failed. They could not leave their lifestyle or beliefs. Faye's array of emotions. The heartbreak. Steve knew she would not join him. The Score, Editing, Costume Design and Cinematography made this film a Classic. Best Song WOYM sealed the deal.
They weren’t dating before
Sublime. Emotions captured vividly! Miss Vicki's wistful glance skyward whilst ceding the torn telegraph to her inevitable heartbreak. Her face a pallet of emotional anguish. Meanwhile, Tomy's face recasts from remorse to a simper; a man more in love with his liberty than with his paramour. Their romance ultimately doomed as each succumbs to their true nature. My dad loved this movie! An although it's a pleasure to watch and absorb on it's own merits, it's the memory of watching together with him that kindles warm memories. Here's to you Dad! We miss you!
Your dad must have been a very sensitive, perceptive man. You were lucky :-)
Did you notice that in this scene, Vicki Anderson is dressed in black and very little makeup unlike the rest of the movie when she would be dressed in high fashion outfits. Even her personality is subdued. Great job by Faye Dunaway to make her seem vulnerable and sympathetic. She would do it again in "Three Days of the Condor" and then turn right around 180 degrees in "Network".
Crown had reached a point where he decided that blowing himself up in his affair was what had to be done, and he had to run his own self out of town.
Agree completely - see my January 2023 comment above
Great movie its me when it comes to women
This was one of my mom's favorite movies. She passed away on October 10, 2015. she loved the way that Faye Dunaway looked in the chess scene & the first scene that she is in at the airport. The music was & still is awesome. she would watch it every time that is came on Turner Classic Movies. played the entire soundtrack for three hours after I found out that she had died. she was 73... watching this movie without her is never going to be the same
+Terry Cobb Sorry about your mom. Although I have never her I am sure she must have been special for liking this movie!
+Terry Cobb my Mum died today 8 years ago, and I love this movie - your Mum had great taste in actors - Steve is the greatest - the thing I love about the movie is the glider when the song is playing - but I reckon Dusty did a better version. You were lucky to have a good Mum - I sure was to have mine!
Steve was a god of bloke films and he rode a bike like it was stolen (the way you should ride). Steve lived it hard and fast - way to go. Your my inspiration Steve - love the way he laughs and laughs after the heist!!!
*****
we all gotta go sometime - just party while you can.
McQueen was one of my favorite actors including the movie "Bullit".
I love this scene! They don't make movies like this anymore.
Or quite simply Can't.!!
@@richardscally694 It seems so. Sad but true.
Have seen both "Affairs". This one is perfect, new one is pathetic.
@@paulusradomski So many films today are just Juvenile Tripe!! celebrated by idiots.
One of the greatest movie endings ever! McQueen is the king of cool.
@@gregorytspalding768 Got that load of crap off your chest you must feel a helluva lot better.
@@bill2953 you betcha, buddy boy.
Yes a Sensation. ❤️❤️🇩🇪🤩🤩🙃
Bill....Yes! Yes! Yes! Beautiful ending, beautiful director, perfect sound and music.
He most certainly was, A One Off.
One of the most cinematic endings of all time! I used to spin this soundtrack non-stop. Great jazz score by Michel Legrand. The jet and that extraordinary piano riff is a perfect marriage of cinema and music.
100%
Stunning piece of magic
When cinema was still cinema! Plot, tempo, cinematography, music and acting all superlative. Movies today seem not to measure up!
I agree and everything really was on the BIG SCREEN .
This a real gem of a movie immortalised on celluloid.An iconic masterpiece of its time.
The Chess Scene has to be one of the greatest teases in cinema history
A great flick, and definitely my favorite of Steve McQueen’s.
McQueen and Dunaway are both in their absolute prime here.
Suspenseful story, slick scenes, creative camera work, excellent editing. Great ending.
“Left early. Please come with the money, or, you keep the car. All my love, Tommy.”
+see noevo Believe it or not, McQueen and Dunaway couldn't stand each other. In the dune buggy sequence, McQueen (who did his own driving scenes; he was an accomplished stunt and race car driver) deliberately went over dunes and at high speeds to scare Faye Dunaway.
@@angelodarden342 your ass
Sand Pebbles or Bullit
I saw this movie as a teenager when it was new, and it continued to grow on me in the following years - partly because the ultra-'60s ambience has become more fascinating as that time has receded further in the past. I have always liked the film a lot, although the plot really doesn't make sense if you pay attention to it. Regardless, this ending is emotionally powerful and to me works extremely well because you really can't be sure what's going to happen. When Faye is confronted by what's been done to her, the shock is conveyed so well by her collapse against the open car door, the loud jet streaking across the sky and the quick-cut zoom to her drained face. Her tearing up the telegram and tossing it to the wind is perhaps overly dramatic, but again, I think it works masterfully. She came into this situation supremely self-assured, striding through Logan Airport in Boston and dressed throughout in the most up-to-date outfits, and at the end that almost arrogant attitude has been crushed by the betrayal.
Nice song
You are a blooming know nothing! The plot makes a lot of sense! The guy is an adventurer. He has a lot of money and he's bored. He craves a major challenge. So, naturally, he creates a challenge to test himself! Go sit down and have 2 seats.
Michel LeGrand did an awesome job on music and 2or3 other movies also. Saw the movie n 68 at the drive in (when times were less complicated) then Marines 1971. Thanx for the memories Steve
One of the best endings ever, the music adds so much too.
I never tire of that film. Pure class. 💖✊👏👏💐
I must have seen it more times than any other film in my collection :-)
3:45 "Left early, please come with the money or you keep the car. All my love, Tommy." Masterpiece or what?😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
The coolest telegram ever sent! He played her beautifully :-)
She was outclassed by the master.
Perfect...
The only possible ending to my favourite film.
The crowning touch. Beautiful
That's the name of the ending song "The Crowning Touch".
Probably my favorite movie of all times. GREAT film score as well as great tension.
I love that final scene, when he flies away and invite her to join him..!!!
even since I watched it at age 17, my life has never been the same...
I just watched it and fell in Love with it. I keep playing that song "Windmills of your mind", and my life will also never be the same !!!!
Marmar c not just that, michel legrand’s score is to die for, so is the onscreen chemistry between Steve and Faye, the stunning wardrobe for Faye...
A sublime ending: suspense, emotion, music, the driver's POV, the fish-eye shot, editing (that double-zoom to Vicki's eyes), her broken 'your funer-al?' line and Tommy's laconic voiced-over telegram...
What is she feeling as she reads and tears up the message?
Maybe relief at first that Tommy has escaped her trap?
Then reality setting in when she looks down at the shreds in her hands?
Defiance when she looks skyward and tosses the shreds into the breeze?
Heartbreak as she face-palms ('What have I done?')?
How can anyone not be moved by her self-made predicament and its outcome?
The master escapee.
She blew it big time oh well the love of her life flew away ever to be seen again .
Oh God, what a tremendous climax to a perfect film! The music is faultless throughout the entire film. Thank you so much! :-)
The tension that builds at 2:35 when the music starts is "hair standing up time"...the bell,the look on her face,car sounds,the tension music......Wow!
This film for me is a distillation of everything 1960’s.
Who else could just sit there, yet convey so much? Just one man - the King of Cool.
I wish I could be one hundredth that cool.
Faye Dunaway is stunning in this film
Those eyes .
Faye was impossibly beautiful
Damn right she was!
One of the greatest endings in a film - cool perfection............
Earlier in the film, we see him sat in his car on the beach. He suspected that Faye Dunaway would betray him to the Police so he jumped the gun and fled the country.
So does it make him a fugitive?
McQueen story. When they filmed this movie in Boston, I had a college friend who lived at Beverly Farms, a rich enclave just out outside Boston. McQueen had rented a mansion from one of the aristocratic Lodge family members when filming. One night my friend was at a beach party near the mansion, and , all of a sudden, Steve McQueen drives up on his motorcycle and hangs out with them for a short time. Great story.
Great Story.
My all time favorite actor and movie..
Seems like the cops really screwed up. Earlier in the film it shows they have Thomas under 24-hour surveillance. How is it they missed him slipping out to the airport for his getaway and hiring a messenger to drive his car to the cemetery? Well, it's still a great finish to a stylish movie.
They should never have refilmed this.
My sentiments exactly :-)
@@Canon1014XLS
Thanks for your reply
He later flies on to New Zealand. She meets him there. No extradition. Beautiful sea views. Many paintings on the walls. Much happiness for McQueen and Dunaway.
Best Scene, Best Actor, Amazing Movie.
A classy one of a kind well put together film, nothing beats the original and yes this is my favorite part of this classic film.
Catherine J Fusco..THAT SLY SMILE!! HE "KNEW" she'd come.....
This scene was done in the Cambridge Cemetery in Cambridge, MA. For the fun of it I went and found the spot.
It'd be great if someone blogged about this..
U lucky dog.! Getting to see the spot!! That would be awesome!!
This movie is as classic as your comment.
Did you check the dustbin? You know, just in case they forgot a bag?
For years I've thought about doing the same thing, but Boston is a very long way from where I live.
One of my all time favourites
Only recently learned this was the only film McQueen wore a 3 piece suit
The original ended the way it should have with Steve McQueen in the title role. That Thomas Crown, like McQueen was a loner. Pierce Brosnan's Tnomas Crown, you could tell, wanted an equal with love and romance. That is how Pierce comes across.
king of cool...long live the king
She realizes that while she thought she could use her sexuality to play and land him (and get the reward) he played her (and showed her REAL wealth and life style.) Hence come with me or stay with what the job (and reputation) offers.
Loved the characters and expressions. Steve was the coolest guy and Faye always the temptress.
Great, great film and I just love Steve Mcqueen. Saw it when it first came out and it's still a great film.
Virginia Stock 6d.
Yep, strongly agree with you my friend. You can not remake perfection. Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway....no other way baby!!! Yeah!!!!
A masterpiece !
Both the film and the final scene !
All my love, Khabir 😎
I would say this movie has the greatest sound tracks of all time, including West side story the best.
I agree. Superb scene, even better than the heist or the chess scene.
I remember watching the Midday movie in my school holidays on channel 9 or 10 in Sydney Australia as a child and being totally absorbed by this movie and crying at this scene and still do , such a brilliant movie, cast, and soundtrack, can’t get better then Steve and Faye, what a combo , wow
This scene, Steve McQueen in the jet plane receiving luxurious service in the Golden days of Jet Age of 1960’s What a great detail
Totally cool, totally classy. Two real movie stars at the very top of their game.
+Andrew Manzi I doubt McQueen had a thing for Dunaway - I think he was good with Natalie Wood.
One of The best 10 films I ever seen. The best with Steve McQueen without doubt.
This movie was Amazing
I cheated :( this was just on TCM and I was in too much suspense to wait for the ending. Although o kept tellin hubby he's getting away, he's too smart.. I was still scared for him. So here I am. Thank you for the upload! I'm so happy right now!!
She traded one unique love affair for a professionnal reward. Was it worth it ? she did her job and acted moraly well and yet we can see her heart self destruct painfully on her face in this final scene. It seems she lost the "game " of life.
She lost it alright, with a capital L!
She was honest. She saved her own soul at the end. He is the LUCIFER of the film. Get it? His whole game with her is "Give up ALL your honesty, morality and reputation if you want to be with me". He wants her to be irredeemable like him. But she isn't, it was all an act with her.
She definitely didn't act "morally" when she kidnapped Irwin's son for ransom, to lure him into confessing.
@@hebneh No she didn't. But that is what makes the end so surprising. We were all expecting her to go criminal for him since she has been shown to be consistently on the edge. But when it matters most, she is honest and moral.
@@kerrytakashi12 Shes a sociopath that got beat by another sociopath in her own game.
They won't allow this ending today, even the 90’s version whimped out....how strange to still be cutting edge in story telling all these years later xxxxx
I like both versions of this movie but this one is better and I absolutely love this ending.
powerfull scene, maybe best of times
I saw this Film in Manchester,England,UK, when first released in UK, late 1960s. I so impressed with this Movie at that time I took a friend along following evening to see movie again. I once read somewhere Jimmy Carter, ex-president, of U.S.A. this was his favourite Hollywood Movie.
Anyway,Peace to all.
Great movie.
The re-make is fine. It's stylish and the actors are wonderful with a lot of chemistry, but it lacks one thing. The powerful ending of the original. Crown testing Vicky knowing she would fail. Neither could change who they were or their natures. McQueen and Faye at their best. The emotions that play across her face at the end are perfect.
Old school and think no other version beats this one or this classic scene.... Beautiful movie, music, actors, etc... why must hollywood remake perfection? Why argue about what moves yo-u? I love movies period and critics and high minded people can debate til the end of the world, ☮️✌️🌴. This is beautiful 🥰👌
Gran!
Gran!
Película!
No tiene igual!
Cine de verdad!
Well said Canon I know you said it 9 years ago but it is still true and always will be....This is 60's class at it's best.
Thank you :-)
I know that I really want those Persol Sunglasses he wears and the house that he and Thomas Banacek had at " 85 ,Mount Vernon Street , Beacon Hill, Boston". Yes the house was also used in the Banacek TV series !
The creators of the Banacek TV series copied a number of elements from the Thomas Crown movie
Been through some tough times Joe
RJW JC
Thankyou 🙏
Original was awesome because crown gets away with the crime not once but twice! Lol
I thinks that makes movie awesome they show sometimes the bad guy dont get caught
Great final scene, great resolution to the plot. 10 x better than the remake for this reason alone.
one of my all time favourites.
+Ram Mohan Same here
checkmate
The bell rings 14 times in this scene...presumably it's supposed to be marking 12:00 noon, but they added two more chimes for the sake of the tension, presumably.
I saw this a few days ago for the very first time. Absolutely loved the ending.
With all due respect to you, the scenes are just totally different and can't really be compared for greatness. This final scene was terrific, very memorable to me more than the chess scene.
This scene is one of the main elements (including the wonderful music) that the original is much better than the remake! "The perfect crime and they never gonna get me..."
Absolutely fabulous
I think they're both heartbroken, he's smiling through the tears.
I remember it from my childhood, but I had always in my mind's eye saw her crying into her hand while the scraps of paper fluttered away...
I agree. The film makes the case that they are both corrupted. But ultimately she was more honest than she thought she was and he was more awful than he expected. He won but he isn't laughing like he was in the beginning. He broke his own heart.
There are no tears in his eyes.
@@EuSeiT yes there are of course boys don't cry
@@kerrytakashi12 not corrupted whatever that may mean, they both are playing their games seriously, both like each other. He does say about his motive for the crime early on, he is playing the system and he knows enough about it too. She is playing for the system and she will get him, her smile at the end is because she is grateful she did not. "you did say it was your funeral" Her tears because they were in love but in the middle in the sauna scene where they try to set up a deal and escape from it, her inflexible compatriot puts pay to that. She is inflexible in a way too as she is not going to wuss out of doing her job, oh no sir, and neither him my goodness they are perfect match. She beats him at the chess game, staged though it was but that CHECK and his reaction to that, the reckoning, she is totally on his level, his woman. No he doesn't cry, it is generally the female who does that, but his look is not quite so self assured at the end, he is facing the loss like her. I still think they should have worked out the chess game with an advisor and actually put a whole real game in their but hell you can't have everything....
THERE* blast it!
This is far superior to the remake.................
This ending made the whole padded-feeling movie entirely worth it. He utterly screws her sideways. She is utterly humiliated and doesn't get Steve McQueen, her career is over and she'll never work in insurance recovery again, and she'll be lucky to avoid prison for her illegal behavior towards Erwin's family.
@@RobespierreThePoof I was gonna say just watched it and didn't get the ending, sorry. That he has just ruined her is the only conclusion although she looks weirdly happy about it..? "Bring the money or you can keep the car"...she can't bltake him the money and he knows it, and the car gift is irrelevant, so he's saying she's only worth anything to him if she now becomes a criminal.
Or someone pls explain what I've missed...
Yup McQueen was cool and Faye in the chess scene...but still prefer the Brosnan/Russo version 🙂
He is a narcissist that fell in love. And since it makes him feel powerless, he had to destroy her to be top dog. The thing is, if she ran to him and became a criminal with him...she wouldn't be the person he loved and he would just drop her. But if she takes the fall and comes out with honor, she can be that fantasy figure on a pedestal that he loves from afar.
She may even be liable for the kidnapping scam she pulled off.
@@DMalltheway she shreded the piece of paper to pieces so that she wont be accused of bieng accomplice.
@@claugusandres582 the detective that hired her can rat her out
Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, REAL MOVIE STARS. Not these Nobody's that are celebrated today. Who? No Me Neither.!!
I own the movie on DVD and watch it once a year. Windmills of My Mind works beautiful in the film...now I wonder if she kept the car? Lol
Well, gentlemen, it seems that you all miss what is a truly remarkable film. Don't worry, better luck next time ...
Played her like a fiddle.
Exactly :-)
What a Cool Dude
The epitome of cool. There has never been and there will never be a cooler guy ...
@@Canon1014XLS You're right. Rod Serling's from same era and real cool. But Steve Mcqueen,coolest guy ever . Got Bullet, Great Escape out ready to watch tonight . Might have to be a double bill.
The ultimate fake out ending. I’ll bet there wasn’t even money in those bags the bagman left in the trash.
No, there was money. There are some quick shots of the second bank robbery just before this scene, so money was actually stolen.
Perfect.... absolutely perfect.... I love it
Prefer this ending to the ending in the remake.
must have been wonderful to live in USA and drive a big station wagon like that!
And they call DeNiro a movie star.
Classic
I totally agree with the comment that the ending of this movie is the best ever?
One of the best endings ever!
MGTOW!
steves shades
This is a fantasy movie dude.
lovexsqualor yeah we all know that, no need whatsoever to tell us. So what's your point in doing so?
Ive always thought about that!!!! He really knew that he couldn't trust her and never allowed himself to fall into the love trap. He knew that doing her job was all she cared about..and she would do anything to betray him and be the winner. Its definitely the mgtow film.
Much better ending than the remake
Il y a de moins en moins des personnes comme cela. Des Véritables.❤
CLASSIC ‼️
This would be cool to see on the big screen at the theaters. They should bring it out at the theaters in 2028. Great film.
Uno dei più' grandi finali della storia del cinema.
E in fondo uno dei più' amari.
Perche' perdono entrambi.
Certo, sulla bilancia, lei più' di lui.
Capolavoro assoluto di un' eta' dell',' oro per il cinema americano.