15 Movies That Were Supposed to Have Unhappy Endings

Some individuals look down their noses at pleased endings. They dismiss them as pat, or formulaic, or saccharine. Personally? I like them, and I perceive why others do too. Life is sad sufficient — and each single life finally closes with the identical sad ending. So why not embrace pleased endings in fiction? Sometimes, that’s exactly what fantasies are for; to vicariously present us with the feelings we so hardly ever expertise in our day-to-day existence.

On the opposite hand, some filmmakers reject pleased endings for precisely that purpose. They don’t need to give viewers vicarious pleasure, and so they do need to seize the genuine taste of actuality. Sometimes one of the simplest ways to do that’s with a darkish, miserable, and in any other case sad ending to their story.

But what filmmakers need is just not all the time need audiences need — or, extra importantly, what studio executives suppose that audiences need. As a consequence, you wind up with motion pictures just like the 15 titles beneath: Films that have been initially conceived — and fairly often shot — with bleak conclusions in thoughts. Invariably, although, every of those motion pictures wound up rising from the manufacturing course of with a far rosier finale than their creators initially supposed.

This listing reveals these authentic endings that have been supposed to be a lot sadder and extra miserable — and, from the sound of it, would have labored loads higher consequently. It’s unlucky audiences didn’t get to see these movies as their administrators’ supposed, though in some instances the deleted footage has resurfaced years afterward house video. That is a type of pleased ending too, I assume, so perhaps these don’t simply exist in fiction in spite of everything.