10 Famous Movie Endings That Were Total Accidents

[@TheRealRonMoses]

"Geezer of Blood" is an awesome band name.

[@hagerty1952]

Almost as funny as calling the Red Sox baseball field a "pitch."

[@Geezer-yf8hv]

Good news everybody!! I fully agree!!

[@oldsesalt8496]

The ending to the Graduate is brilliant. You can see the characters thinking "uh-oh, what did I just do?"

[@richardwhite3924]

The great comedian George Burns, in his one man show late in his life, used to joke that if you have a great beginning and a great ending to your stage act, nobody really cares about the middle. The same things applies to many movies.

[@sexobscura]

and most movies now don't even care about ANY part of the movie

[@captaingroot5812]

It’s actually not hard to believe that some amazing ending shots of films would be by accident.

[@helenlauer9545]

no, it's not hard to believe. but to see the endings and the circumstances leading to them is very entertaining, which is the point of the video. Duh.

[@wallyman292]

As for the Coen bros and the "seagull". . . That wasn't a seagull. That was a pelican, diving for a fish.

[@felixbelanger2659]

looks more like a ganet? And they dive exactly like that

[@wallyman292]

@@felixbelanger2659 Not familiar with ganets myself, so will take your word for it! I was just going by how it folded it wings when it went for the dive, which to me looked just like a pelican. ;)

[@sea_triscuit7980]

@@felixbelanger2659 looked more like a Boobie to me

[@TheAutisticEducator]

@@felixbelanger2659 Naaah...it's a brown Pelican.

[@TheAutisticEducator]

@@wallyman292 It's a Brown Pelican.

[@SamButler22]

Almost the ending of Trains Planes Automobiles, Steve Martin sat on the train was just him between takes thinking about his lines

[@stacys8729]

Kudos for all staying in character long enough to keeo the shot

[@A_Rose_From_Concrete]

It's crazy how that malfunctioning blood pump set the standard for bloody movies

[@sr71sr71]

And, iirc, it inspired anime and the over the top blood spurts that are commonly found in them.

[@davidbayliss4415]

There's also another Jesus film with an incredible accidental last shot - Jesus Christ Superstar. At the very end there is a shot of the sun setting on the horizon, and then out of nowhere a shepherd appears leading his flock of sheep - and so the last shot is the setting sun while a shepherd and his flock slowly walk in front of it along the horizon. That must've given the director goosebumps!

[@colleenross8752]

Well, Jesus is the Good Shepherd, so

[@ferociousgumby]

"CUE THE SHEEP!" - God

[@helenlauer9545]

@@colleenross8752 duh. that's Bayliss' point.

[@johnjim6793]

You should have included the final scene from Ingmar Bergman‘s „The Seventh Seal“. The „Dance of Death“ where you see the shadows of Max von Sydow and some of his companions lead into a far away place by the Black Reaper was totally improvised. The crew had already ended shooting that day and almost everybody, including the actors, had already packed their things and gone home, when unexpectedly the evening sun and the clouds produced a very mystical light that Bergman wanted to use. As no actors were left to shoot the scene, he decided to put technical crew members into costumes and had them filmed in a way that you could only see the shadows.

[@deeplyblue7299]

The last one with the light going off slowly was a very beautiful happy accident

[@amberlopez7477]

More of an ominous ending with the fading light.

[@deeplyblue7299]

@@amberlopez7477 What i meant was that the viewers got to see a very unique moment, one that elevated the film without the added "feeling" that cinematic film lighting techniques offer. It said more than words could say .

[@raypurchase801]

The script's original ending to Cameron's "Titanic" was that the vessel missed the iceberg and arrived safely in New York.

[@hydrolito]

Titanic sunk in 1912 and rescue ship the Carpathia was sunk during world war 1.

[@raypurchase801]

@@hydrolito Yes I know. Which is why a movie about Titanic missing the ice berg would be so great. The kind of alternative history which Tarantino does.

[@peterwinters8587]

@@hydrolito thanx einstein

[@kevinbergin9971]

@@peterwinters8587 To be fair, we all know the Titanic's end but I had not realized that The Carpathia sunk too.

[@hydrolito]

Ship sank in 1912 and they were looking for sunken ship at beginning and end of movie.

[@harryschaefer8563]

The cross through the door handles was a brilliant idea!

[@BruceHurley]

The cross was also symbolic. They were turning their backs on convention, including the church.

[@MrQdiddy85]

The English pronunciation of "Geyser" is now one of my favorite words

[@helenlauer9545]

i can't hear 'geezer' without thinking it's slang for 'old man'. Even here.

[@colmlambe4068]

I remember finding out the ending of the original Anaconda movie were the the snake is on fire aprently was by accident but it looked great so the director kept it. If I remember correctly I heard about it being an accident in the commentary of the movie.

[@killingragethrowback]

It's the Rock. He's genuinely one of the funniest improvisers alive. Of course he adlibbed that.

[@pascal1947]

Pffffft 86 year curse !! Come back when your team has gone 108 years without a World Series title.

[@QuanticChaos1000]

1:40 is a pelican not a seagull, it's diving for fish.

[@edwardofgreene]

The genius here is the directors recognizing what they had when the accidents happened. Instead of being stubborn to the original vision they saw the potential in the unintended shot.

[@Th8rgoddess]

This list just goes to show that the best artists know they can't control everything and are willing to go with the random things that can happen.

[@davideaston6944]

That was an really good list - thanks!

[@filiphobl6092]

Too cold for steam loco? Made me laugh. You dont simply turn steam engine ON/OFF...

[@Toketree]

Pretty sure the rock and tyrese don’t like eachother IRL he was waiting to hit ‘em with that 😂

[@petejones879]

I can't believe there is a film called Barton Fink

[@markadams7046]

It's a very good visual movie. There's a scene where John Goodman's character is running down the hall of a burning hotel in a burning rage that just blows me away.

[@kenbrown2808]

there is no "switching the engine off" on a steam locomotive. they still have components like the brake air pressure pump that run even when they are stopped.

[@himoffthequakeroatbox4320]

TIL the laws of thermodynamics are just guidelines.

[@angelaj9595]

That's not a seagull dying. It's a pelican. That's how pelicans dive for food. You can even see it pop back up afterwards. It's fine. How did no-one involved in the making of this video know that?

[@brianarbenz1329]

It was an accident. So you can add this video to the list. :)

[@himoffthequakeroatbox4320]

@@brianarbenz1329 Self referential. Very meta.

[@MarcGallagherMusic]

Why the reupload

[@zebeart8808]

Great video

[@nareanmano]

Wasnt this video already made

[@Cyphyxia]

I think its a reupload

[@ferociousgumby]

@@Cyphyxia They're hoping nobody notices, though it's all over the comments. Do they think we're fools? Do they think we will think that's a dead seagull, that baseball is played on a PITCH, or that geyser is pronounced GEEZER?

[@Joemama55122]

The bird was diving for fish

[@michaelgallagher3640]

Not a seagull, pelican.

[@Pedone_Rosso]

What a list: solid proof that it takes talent to recognize lucky mistakes. Thanks for your videos!

[@zanethomas6865]

Last Temptation of Christ is a great ending. At that exact moment, Willem Dafoe playing Jesus was supposed to die as he closes his eyes after proclaiming "It is accomplished." Call it divine intervention.

[@scorpiosbluff1470]

A pelican going after food...is apparently dead?

[@mosheshulman8305]

You left out the comment Humphrey Bogart says at the end of Casablanca. It classic.

[@MrDogfish83]

Was it an accident tho? I don't think ad-libs count (the guy spitting out his drink counts because it was an accident stemming from an ad-lib)

[@TheBeelzboss]

In that second movie, that wasn't a seagul and it was hunting a fish... But yeah, cool background shot.

[@jjHunsecker]

Good list. Don't forget the "rain is crying a single tear" in "In Cold Blood" (1967).

[@peterwinters8587]

not an an ending

[@helenlauer9545]

god what a movie that was. And such hue and cry at the time. Such a trend setter. As much as Psycho. Even more, maybe. I'm not a film studies expert so I dunno.

[@Cyphyxia]

Im sure this is a reupload

[@ferociousgumby]

All I see these days are retreads, rehashes, remixes, and other messes we've seen dozens of times already.

[@Sunprism]

I Love Barton Fink, It's definitely in my top 3 for Coen Brothers movies, Feel like it gets unjustly overlooked. LOOK UPON ME, I WILL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND!

[@alexius23]

Fever Pitch was originally a British film centered around Soccer.

[@tamaj152]

In Barton Fink, that is not a seagull. It is a pelican fishing. That's how they do it, locate a fish, fly way high, and smash down into the sea.

[@pandaeyes42]

BARTON FINK!!! BARTON FINK!!!

[@hydrolito]

Other videos Gannets (type of white bird) dropping into water to get fish. They do it just like that.

[@cabe3231]

The charge in "1917" is hilariously bad. The first soldier George Mackay collides with never gets back up again. He's a murderer! 🤭

[@MrDogfish83]

Maybe the soldier realized if he just laid there he might survive the ordeal "I uh thought I got shot"

[@InLohmansTerms]

She said GEEZER!

[@Robert-Peterson]

Considering the fact that - out the approximately eleventy-billion stories humanity has written throughout its history - there are only about six good endings, it makes perfect sense that a good ending happened purely by accident.

[@jiveturkey8728]

Seagull was hunting for fish. Wow, really thought it just died? lmao

[@DNRDROID]

The extra in 1917 falls down like he's dead while the star never breaks his stride... weird the extra just gave up.

[@hughsnyder8422]

I read somewhere that the extra had an actual injury from that.

[@jetfan925]

I think this is a reupload.

[@martinkuliza]

1"40 that seagul is not dead, we see that all the time at Bondi Beach, You can clearly see it's wing span outstretched and then as it approaches the water surface it's wings clip in to 90 degrees' it's swooping in on a fish, they do this all the time, they hover then they just launch into the water when they see a fish, it's certainly not dead although when you see the bird flying across the sky SEEMS RATHER LARGE FOR SEAGUL, I'D SAY A PELICAN OR SOMETHING, given the bill and the puffiness of the stomach

[@VaultHunterKiriko]

Geezer of blood I can't breathe🤣🤣🤣

[@ferociousgumby]

Simon Whistler also says "geezer", though he pronounces everything wrong.

[@humbleevidenceaccepter7712]

A baseball _pitch?_

[@fergusclarken8437]

pitch fever in underrated

[@paulthomson2288]

Why would any numb skull think a bird diving for fish would be dead? The pelican is also clearly not dead as it surfaces.

[@dawg8195]

It's a baseball field, not a pitch. We know that's what it's called in soccer.

[@jeremyswalley8625]

#8 reminds me of Quentin Tarantino

[@renshiwu305]

"Saint Louie's Cardinals."

[@tlswilso]

That was no seagull.

[@MoviePerson280]

The Last Temptation of Christ’s ending was great I thought

[@rjperkins365]

Geezer instead of geyser. You guys spawned the language

[@user-mg5mv2tn8q]

Geyser is actually a word borrowed from Icelandic.

[@rjperkins365]

@@user-mg5mv2tn8q If you look at it that way then no word's English. German, French, Latin, it was made from quite few.

[@ferociousgumby]

Geezer, geyzer! Seagull, sigh-gull! Let's call the whole thing stupid.

[@ferociousgumby]

A geezer of blood?

[@pjteves1]

WTF?? Pitch?? In baseball it’s called “the field!!”

[@cutebutevil7387]

I kinda understand not knowing the difference between seagulls and any of the actual sea birds who behave like that, but who on earth believed someone trained a seagull to dive into the sea for a film? 😕

[@brianarbenz1329]

It was Jonathan Livingston's brother, who vowed to equal his brother's accomplishment. Sibling rivalries are like that!

[@cutebutevil7387]

@@brianarbenz1329 sibling rivalries will train a non-predatory land bird to go out to sea and teach it to hunt? 😕

[@MrDogfish83]

Yeah, though it counts as an accident to make the list, but what you said is so true.

[@brianarbenz7206]

@@cutebutevil7387 Evidently so!

[@stranraerwal]

why does the off-speaker scream her texts in one breath through the whole shebang?

[@TheAutisticEducator]

Brown Pelican, not Seagull!

[@larryk731]

Just a nitpick Baseball field not pitch

[@mattias5157]

Who believes a seagull diving for a fish drops dead? How urban/uncunning do you have to be to believe such a thing?

[@Iansco1]

Seriously? Did Tyrese try to out promo one of 10 guys from WWE who was not given a script?!

[@petematthews9346]

Not a seagull but a pelican diving on its prey

[@dave9242]

Reading is not this channels strong suit. They make pronunciation mistakes every video.

[@thomaspappalardo7589]

It’s pronounced “guy-zer,” not “gee-zer.”

[@brianarbenz1329]

There once was a bird seeking lunch, Called a dying gull on Simon’s hunch. ‘Twas a pelican in fact, Causing viewers to act, With comments creating a crunch.

[@maggiesue4825]

Uh, your ignorance is showing. That was NOT a seagull. It was diving for fish, so consequently was NOT dead.

[@HumorousLife]

Correction: In Barton Fink, the seabird is a pelican fishing (successfully), not a seagull that dives and dies.

[@DavidGowers]

The seagull at the end of Barton Fink isn't a seagull and it isn't dead, it's a seagull seagulling for seagull

[@ferociousgumby]

It's a ganet, or a gannet, or a garnet, or a gamut, or a damn it.

[@DavidGowers]

@@ferociousgumby ooh is that what people are talking about when they say "run the gannet of..."

[@shereebrolaski1791]

I hate the way you said St. Louis it’s Lou is not loui

[@markadams7046]

Actually, the proper French pronunciation is Loo-ee and not Loo-is, and since the city was founded by the French and is named for a French saint, her pronunciation is actually the correct pronunciation. A similar incident happened with Arnold Schwarzenegger in his pronunciation of "California." Most people in America and California say it Cal-if-forn-ya where Schwarzenegger said it Cal-ee-forn-ee-a. Schwarzenegger actually pronounces it more properly to the words original Spanish. A book I read called "The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way" states that locals tend to mispronounce the names of the very cities that they live in as a result of a lazy tongue from having said the word so often. It's much like how the people from Australia will often just say "stralia" and not even pronunce the "au" part or at the very least make it hardly audible.

[@shereebrolaski1791]

@@markadams7046 we say Australia no one’s says stralia. I know because I used to live there. I guess all the radio stations and ads are incorrect saying St. Louis correctly

[@markadams7046]

@@shereebrolaski1791Really? Maybe you should watch the movie Crocodile Dundee and listen to Paul Hogan. You probably think you pronounce the "Au," but even if you do it is hardly audible. All the adds say St. Louis as Modern Americans say it, but like I said, it's a town founded by the French named for a Frenchman and thus, the proper pronunciation is the French pronunciation like the lady in the video pronounced it.

[@Geezer-yf8hv]

Unless you are Bugs Bunny. I live in Louisville, and it is called Looey-ville, although us natives say “Loo-ah-vull”. You can call it Loonyville, but you will always get a cringed correction if you call it “Lewisville”

[@earthknight60]

That's a pelican in Barton Fink, not a seagull. You can clearly see the beak shape and size. That abrupt falling out of the sky maneuver is how certain pelican species catch fish. It's their version of a dive. You can see it tuck its wings and elongate its body just before impact.

[@jamesremington8056]

It wasn't a seagull. It was a pelican. That's how they fish.

[@PhilMoskowitz]

Modernity.

[@Lord.Kiltridge]

That was not a seagull and it was not dead. In the previous shot the audience can see that it is a pelican, and it perfectly normal for a pelican to dive into the water to catch fish.

[@alphabasic1759]

Learn to pronounce geyser

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

I don't think that's a seagull at the end of Barton Fink. It looks--and acts--like a pelican dive-bombing for a fish. And it doesn't look the least bit dead. It's floating in a normal position in the last split-second after hitting the water. Typical pelican stuff.

[@Highley1958]

The bird in Barton Fink is not a seagull. It is a pelikan. And it isn't "falling". It is diving. That is how it catches fish.

[@davidevans3175]

It wasn't a seagull it was a pelican and it was diving for fish. Very common here in So Cal.

[@edwardsharpe6234]

Yes not exactly a seagull committing suicide

[@magpiefrogfrom2556]

I'm pretty sure that was a penguin, but i'm often wrong. 😀

[@Brett2nd]

Quite obviously an emu going skin diving.

[@therealJamieJoy]

Absolutely without a doubt it was an eagle diving for octopus.

[@farwoodfarm9296]

Agreed super common here in NC too.

[@jzxwannabe2685]

1- not a seagull. Clearly a pelican. 2- they dive into the water when they observe fish from above.

[@rattman7103]

pelican not seagull

[@johnpinson5904]

Don't forget about the ending of Harold and Maude where Harold drives his car over the CA beach cliffs only to have the camera run out of film with the car in mid-air during the single take shot. With the car wrecked, they elected to leave the shot with the car hanging in mid-air on freeze frame before then cutting to show the car resting on the rocks by the shore below as if it was some sort of cinematic genius to not show the entire sequence of the car going over the cliff.

[@AlmostReady504]

Forgot about that haven't seen that movie in years

[@gerrodmendham461]

Is that what happened in Thelma & Louise too? lol

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

I didn't know that! Thanks.

[@61yorgos]

No animal died during the filming of Burton Fink. That bird was hungry.

[@davedoerffer9896]

its not dead its looking for lunch it was trying to catch a fish!

[@RoninXDarknight]

Also it's clearly a pelican but you know, semantics XD

[@owie4070]

"Apparently dead" 🤣

[@srldwg]

@@RoninXDarknight Thank you! Semantics. Exactly! The point was that the bird was accidentally in the shot, it made the scene more ironic so they kept it in.

[@micaelaiphys]

1917 definitely counts. It happened in the last shot…well, I guess it also took place in the first shot - hell it’s present in “the” shot. Yep. Definitely counts!

[@kevinbergin9971]

Since the target market for these videos tends to be younger I was prepared to add I'm a Fugitive from a Chain Gang in the credits. Thanks for remembering it.

[@horrorchick793]

Just a stupid afterthought, but I think it's so funny and cute that the British pronounce the word Geyser as "Gee-zer". lol That made my day! :)

[@peterbellwood5412]

What gets me is when you guys describe someone as 'spunky' or as being 'full of spunk' . That means something VERY different to us Brits 😱

[@horrorchick793]

@@peterbellwood5412 LMAO!!! I know what that means to Brits, and so yeah, I bet that has GOT to be so weird!! HAHA!! I'm with you, brother. How about what you guys call cigarettes? If you said that here, somebody would smack you down, that term means something very disrespectful to us. Language is a funny thing. Let's keep going, this is fun!!

[@brianarbenz1329]

That’s cause them British ain’t learned English goodly like us ‘Mercuns!

[@hydrolito]

@@brianarbenz1329 Mercuns is that what aliens from Mercury are called?

[@williamskatespeare9461]

Pretty sure the bird at the end of Barton Fink is a pelican.

[@ferociousgumby]

Pretty sure this comment has appeared eleventy-seven times.

[@williamskatespeare9461]

@@ferociousgumby Pretty sure this comment has appeared eleventy-seven times on comments similar to mine.😆

[@ferociousgumby]

Willem Dafoe was a most underrated Jesus.

[@mikevaleriano9557]

amy! long time no hear!

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

I swear there was more movie after most of these "endings."

[@martyschriver]

A geezer of blood, eh? 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

[@52flyingbicycles]

2:07 kudos to that actor for seeing all his squibs go off and quickly realizing “a shit play dead!” instead of disrupting the shot.

[@zachboyd6601]

Reservoir Dogs is conspicuously missing

[@stevetheduck1425]

The Sanjuro blood spurt was controlled by a bottle of carbonated 'fizzy' water shooting through a small reservoir of dark dye. The entire bottle was used instead of a small amount with the rest running out after the actor fell. Accidental, but, contrasted with the horrified reactions of the men in the background, this event served to fit with Sanjuro's educating them with the reality of what the Samurai way entails, a theme that runs through the story, and after the humour of the preceding film, is a startling shock and a reality beat to end the film on.

[@lindaportuguesinha6065]

the seagull dive, didnt die.