webby Wrote:The UK's Times Online named their choices for Best Film Twists Ever.
"The most powerful tool in cinema is the perfect twist, those vertiginous seconds when the bottom falls out of your seat and you are no longer sure whether to trust your eyes."
The films mentioned are:
Great Expectations
The Empire Strikes Back
Rosemary's Baby
The Wicker Man
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Fight Club
Planet of the Apes
The Sixth Sense
The Crying Game
Rebecca
Blade Runner
The Shining
The Usual Suspects
The Prestige
The Others
Jacob's Ladder
Dead Man's Shoes
Sunset Boulevard
Vertigo
Psycho
Dr. Strangelove
Kiss Me Deadly
The article itself is FULL of spoilers, so click at your own risk here.
A couple of movies that weren't big box office but that I thought had really good twists are Arlington Road starring Jeff Bridges and Fallen starring Denzel Washington.
Anybody else have a nominee or two for best film twists ever?
I'm not sure if this is a "twist' or not...
But how about the final scene of Charles Chaplin's masterpiece CITY LIGHTS?
SPOILERS!
SPOILERS!
YOW! MONSTROUS SPOILERS!
I TOLD YEZ!
See, gang, the Little Tramp befriends a blind flower girl. He's trying to get the money for an operation to give her sight.
Finally, he succeeds. And is looking through the window at her flower shop. Her helper sees him. "I think you have an admirer." The flower girl who's regained her sight has a good heart too. She brings a flower and a quarter out to the tramp. But in giving them to him, she feels, knows his hand...
"You?"
"You can see now?"
"Yes, I can see now."
The only thing Einstein and I have in common: it made us both cry.
Check it out. It really smokes the soul.