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** In the American rendition of the movie, ''The Departed'', {{spoiler|Matt Damon, playing Andy Lau's character, does indeed manage to leave the building keeping his identity a secret, but, perhaps to please American audiences, he is eventually confronted by another detective who discovered the truth in the movie's end, and is killed}}.

** {{spoiler|The difference between Lau's and Damon's interpretations of the character was that Lau's genuinely wanted to change when he realized that his secret life was going to make him lose his wife, whereas Damon's was just trying to protect himself. Lau's character certainly didn't want to go to prison, but the ending at the funeral (and Lau shooting the other mole) showed that his character had changed.}}

** The sequel follows the ending of the US version.

* ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'' is an odd case. The original novel had an unambiguously happy ending, with the Pods fleeing Earth, the Pod People slowly dying off, and the town returning to normal. The first movie adaptation initially had a [[Downer Ending]], with the hero hysterically screaming "You're next!" to oblivious highway drivers (and the audience) as truckloads of Pods are shipped all over the country. The execs didn't care for this ending, and slapped on a prologue and epilogue that showed the military discovering the threat, and preparing to fight back. Meanwhile, the 1978 and 1993 remakes had unambiguously [[Downer Ending|Downer Endings]] and the 2007 remake restored the happy ending of the original book.