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* Many a [[Biopic]] chooses to end the story at the height of the hero's success (or perhaps their comeback). They might briefly acknowledge sad events that happened afterward, up to and including death, but that's all. |
* Many a [[Biopic]] chooses to end the story at the height of the hero's success (or perhaps their comeback). They might briefly acknowledge sad events that happened afterward, up to and including death, but that's all. |
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** Martin Scorsese's ''The Aviator'' somewhat averts this. It ends on a moment of total public triumph for Howard Hughes, but in the last scene Hughes suffers an obsessive-compulsive fit and is reduced to hiding away, helplessly staring into a darkened bathroom mirror and repeating "the way of the future." |
** Martin Scorsese's ''The Aviator'' somewhat averts this. It ends on a moment of total public triumph for Howard Hughes, but in the last scene Hughes suffers an obsessive-compulsive fit and is reduced to hiding away, helplessly staring into a darkened bathroom mirror and repeating "the way of the future." |
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** ''[[Ed Wood (film)|Ed Wood]]'' is pretty bad about this, as it ends immediately after the premiere of ''[[Plan 9 from Outer Space]]''. The alcoholism that destroyed [[Ed Wood ( |
** ''[[Ed Wood (film)|Ed Wood]]'' is pretty bad about this, as it ends immediately after the premiere of ''[[Plan 9 from Outer Space]]''. The alcoholism that destroyed [[Ed Wood (creator)|Ed Wood]]'s career and reduced him to filming pornography at the end isn't dramatized (brief text epilogues do reveal his and his colleagues' ultimate fates). |
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** Averted hard in ''Pollock''. The last half of the film chronicles Pollock's wife leaving him, his subsequent depression and the ultimate consequences of his alcoholism throughout the film: the final scene depicts the car wreck that kills him. |
** Averted hard in ''Pollock''. The last half of the film chronicles Pollock's wife leaving him, his subsequent depression and the ultimate consequences of his alcoholism throughout the film: the final scene depicts the car wreck that kills him. |
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* This ''almost'' happened with ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'', with the original ending being [[James Bond|Bond]] and Tracy driving off happily. When George Lazenby [[Real Life Writes the Plot|announced he would quit]], Blofeld and Bunt killing Tracy was put in, rather than saved for the sequel. |
* This ''almost'' happened with ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'', with the original ending being [[James Bond|Bond]] and Tracy driving off happily. When George Lazenby [[Real Life Writes the Plot|announced he would quit]], Blofeld and Bunt killing Tracy was put in, rather than saved for the sequel. |
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