{"id":4746,"date":"2004-04-14T14:59:59","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T18:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/httpblogslawharvardeduceerock4\/2004\/04\/14\/ruined-endings"},"modified":"2004-04-14T14:59:59","modified_gmt":"2004-04-14T18:59:59","slug":"ruined-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2004\/04\/14\/ruined-endings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruined Endings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a580'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>One of the complaints I hear most frequently from students about film textbooks is that the books invariably ruin the ending of every film they discuss. (I often get this complaint about film lectures too.) I am generally not receptive to this complaint, and tend to write it off as a petty concern of someone not yet attuned to the idea that we are not reading about films as entertainment, that there&#8217;s more to a movie than its plot or its ending.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Snotty, yes I know, but that&#8217;s part of the requirement&nbsp;for getting that ever-valuable Master&#8217;s degree in Cinema Studies.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>But I&#8217;ve just come across a website that inverts this logic and supplies you with nothing but&nbsp;the endings of films, at your fingertips. I&#8217;m not sure who would need this service or why, unless you are like <A href=\"http:\/\/offonatangent.blogspot.com\">Steve<\/A>, who had an emergency when his TiVo went blank just before the ending of a film, leaving him hanging. But if you want it, here&#8217;s a database of the endings of films (whole plots are being added as well): <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ruinedendings.com\/\">Ruined Endings<\/A>. Click on the &#8220;View Random Entry&#8221; option.&nbsp;My favorite: <\/P><br \/>\n<P>The Ending for the Crying Game: <\/P><br \/>\n<P>She&#8217;s a bloke.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the complaints I hear most frequently from students about film textbooks is that the books invariably ruin the ending of every film they discuss. (I often get this complaint about film lectures too.) I am generally not receptive to this complaint, and tend to write it off as a petty concern of someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58QoK-1ey","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}