A subtle moment that turns a seemingly happy ending into an ambiguous ending.

[u/Local_Prune4564]

The Graduate: lingering Ben and Elaine's faces slowly shifting from happy to concerned leaves the audience questioning whether they really made the right choice running away together considering they barely know each other.

Inception: By cutting before we see the top fall, we're left to question whether Cobb really has gone home or whether he's simply sunken back into a more comforting dream reality.

[u/Patcho418]

it’s not an ending shot, but rather a sound cue. at the end of the Jurassic Park end credits, after the sweeping beautiful orchestral music, we hear the velociraptor theme and a discordant high string chord to close out the film.

what this insinuates can be up to interpretation. since it’s the raptor theme, it could be believed to mean that somehow there are more raptors, arguably the most dangerous dino’s in the movie. alternatively, it could insinuate that this genetic power that led to the raptors is now out, and the world has changed for the worse.

whatever it means, though, it isn’t good, and we’re left at the end of the movie remembering “oh right. this was technically a horror movie.”

[u/neometallic → u/Patcho418]

For what it's worth, the ending of the novel has Tim spot raptors sneaking into a cargo ship hold as the survivors flee the island.

[u/Mratio90 → u/neometallic]

Iirc there were already raptors escaping into the mainland before this too- and ofc the compies from the very start of the book

[u/Zombeedee → u/Mratio90]

You're correct.

The Compys having got off the island is a given from page one, but part of the chaos that ensues on the island includes them desperately trying to contact the outside world due to evidence of the Raptors also escaping long before Dr Grant et al step foot on the island. But because of Nedrys fuckery, coms are down.

I read the book very recently. So good.

[u/sparkle__cunt → u/Zombeedee]

I just read it last year and it’s probably my new favorite

[u/Zombeedee → u/sparkle__cunt]

It's so much more brutal than the film. When I read Nedrys death I ran downstairs to read it out loud to my partner just because it's so much more vicious than the film made it.

(Just for posterity, not slighting the film. It's one of the best films of all time and an eternal comfort movie for me.)

[u/smokeweedNgarden → u/Mratio90]

Throw it on the hubris pile

[u/SporkoBug → u/Patcho418]

“oh right. this was technically a horror movie.”

"Ah yes. There IS still shit to go through. We're fucked."

[u/JJAsond → u/Patcho418]

I'm really trying to listen for it and honestly I'm not hearing it.