SPOILER ALERT!: Favorite Surprise Ending

[snyprrr]

What about that silly sci-fi, when, at the end, the man and woman character head off in a spaceship. Then we find out their names are Adam and Eve, and they're flying to,...Earth!

What was that on?

[Bogey]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Final Scene)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgCSl9xgzKw

When I saw this as a kid, I had no idea how it ended and I figured they would get out of it.

[Lethevich]

I must be dumb, because I didn't see the end of The Usual Suspects coming when I watched it, although I was quite young. It was stylishly done if I recall correctly.

[mc ukrneal]

Asimov's Foundation series (the original three). I was blown away by the ending of the third book, though perhaps it was because I was young at the time.

[snyprrr]

How bout the ole "killer turns out to be the fauny woman" trick?

"Bird with the Crystal Plummage"

[Kontrapunctus]

The last sentence of William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily."

[Cato]

The best "twists" are the ones that are inconclusive: in the famous James Cagney movie Angels With Dirty Faces, Cagney plays "Rocky," a brutal criminal/slum folk-hero.  A gang of teenagers idolizes him, and a priest trying to reform them asks Rocky (his old wayward friend) to act scared and cowardly before sitting in the electric chair, so that the kids will lose their hero-worship of him.  Rocky refuses adamantly, saying that he only has pride between him and "the chair" and that he would never give it up.

But as he walks the long corridor toward the chair, Rocky suddenly breaks down and whimpers and must be dragged to his execution.

So...did he change his mind?  Or was he really a sniveling little coward?  Nobody can ever know.

[KevinP]

I really don't like Star Wars, but wasn't the 'I am your father' much more in the middle?

Vertigo too, although I agree that that was an absolutely brilliant scene in an absolutely brilliant film.