Movie endings where the bad guys win – Good always triumphs. That’s the mantra of movies since the beginning of cinema; no matter how bad things are, in the end, the good guys win out. It may be hard, they may see a lot of loss and tragedy but Hollywood prefers a feel-good ending, especially in the current blockbuster age.
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Movies are meant to be an escape from real life where we see good people lose so much so it makes sense that filmmakers want to reward them with stuff to feel good with and thus why we get so many happy endings.
But sometimes, they go the other way. In several movies, the writer or director decides to be daring enough to have the villain win the day after all. In most cases, it’s the killer or crook managing to escape but it can go further. It can be the bad guy enjoying a true victory and often the hero of the story not only defeated but disgraced. The audience realizes the villain has been pulling off a grand plot that you only just understand and he had the upper hand all the while.
Whatever the case, it’s always a daring move to end a film on the bad guy being the winner but if done right, it can make the entire movie that much better. Here are ten films where the bad guy gets the final say on things and elevates these stories majorly.
While it should be obvious, be warned that this article contains massive SPOILERS.
10. Watchmen
The live-action version of the classic graphic novel has its share of critics and haters. But Zack Snyderdid manage to replicate the story’s terrific ending. Hunting what they think is a masked killer that ties in to a growing threat of nuclear war in an alternate 1985, crime-fighters Nite Owl and Rorschach discover that the man behind it all is former ally Adrien Veidt aka Ozymandias. Confronted at his Antarctic base, Veidt recites a classic monologue explaining how he’s planning the greatest “practical joke” in history: tricking the world into peace by making them think something much more threatening is at hand. Utilizing the teleportation energies of the god-like Dr. Manhattan, Veidt will wipe out New York, Moscow, London and other major cities and thus unite world powers against the supposedly mad Manhattan.
It’s not quite how it happens in the comic but thankfully, the movie still keeps the same gut-punch twist. When a disbelieving Nite Owl asks when Veidt was going to enact this insane scheme, the man scoffs at the idea he would waste time detailing his master plan when there was a chance of stopping it. “I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”
Naturally, the real Manhattan is a bit ticked when he and Sally Jupiter appear in a ruined New York. He goes after Veidt, who counters by showing live broadcasts of President Richard Nixon declaring Manhattan has attacked humanity and thus the world powers are calling a global cease-fire to work against this “threat.” Veidt states that if the others expose him, all they’ll be doing is putting the world right back on the brink of nuclear war and the millions of people in those cities would have died for nothing. Nite Owl and Jupiter agree but Rorschach is intent on seeing justice done and is atomized by Manhattan. Some might argue about Ozymandis being a pure villain but getting away with the murder of millions for “peace” surely earns a place on this list.
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