i'll never forget the ending...
as long a i live...
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Yes, because it goes on for 5 minutes and I wish the camera would have kept moving on through the credits.
I, too, will never forget this ending but not for the same reasons as most... the clouds, the scenery and the way the camera moves is so beautiful and the way everything truns to black and white. Simply stunning cinematography!
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"too, will never forget this ending but not for the same reasons as most... the clouds, the scenery and the way the camera moves is so beautiful and the way everything truns to black and white. Simply stunning cinematography!"
Same with me. :)
Another reason why I will nor forget this ending is, how Robert Blake is sitting dead on the highway what looks a bit silly for me. But it´s nevertheless a great movie.
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Electra Glide in Blue has one of the finest endings I have ever seen in a film. After all the agony and heroics that he puts himself through, in the end he gets shot simply for being a nice cop. I sat there with my jaw open for 5 minutes and just took in that wonderful shot of him sitting dead on that hellish highway. Great movie!
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Aah! so THIS is the movie i saw as a kid!! Ive never ever forgotten that ending and have many times wondered what this movie was, but didnt know or recall the name of it. I remember how he pulled over that van, got their ID card, and then realized that they drove off forgetting to get the card back, so he follows laughing and showing them the card they forgot - only to have the passenger turn a shotgun on him and shoot him off the bike. him sitting on the road, slumped over, and the credits rolling over while i was shocked over how unfair it was for him - i never forgot that. Been about 20 years now, i think.
I need to find this movie and see it again.
Too bad i dont live in the states where i could see it at that AICN event with Wright, Frost and co at the alamo drafthouse :(
I always imagined what happened next. At some point the guys in the van realized that Wintergreen was trying to give them their licence back... and he still has their license! They are so screwed.
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The interesting thing about that ending is at one point the image freezes and remains through the credits, but it's hard to tell when it stops because it feels like it's in perpetual motion.
I'd never seen this all the way through, but my gut feeling was that something would happen to this nice character.
Why ain't you at the garden party you heathen?
The imagery of him sitting up, slumped over, is very powerful. I translated this in two ways:
1: As an analogy of America leaving Vietnam, he looks like a military man, maybe a pilot, bloodied, giving up.
2: He is sitting in a buddhist style, he says earlier he believed in reincarnation, and his name is Wintergreen, which suggests rebirth.
I translated it in this way: He is refusing to show those people he's going to just lay down and die. He had to have been struggling to sit up and he did. I think the camera shows him even breathing twice before he dies. This shows he lived his life fighting for life and good and he died fighting for life, in this case his own. He never gave up until he had to.
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