However, the film's ambitious scope and its extensive effects work forced Campbell, Raimi and producer Rob Tapert to put up $ 1 million of their collective salaries to shoot a new ending and not film a scene where a possessed woman pushes down some giant pillars.

Castle invented the Cabbie character and came up with the film's ending.

One of the most controversial scenes was the film's ending: Brian's crucifixion.

In 1991 Scott's notes were used by Warner Brothers to create a rushed director's cut which removed the voiceovers originally added at the request of worried executives before the film's release, and made a number of other small changes, including to the ending.

In an interview decades later, Roberta Findlay said that the film's distributor Allan Shackleton had read about snuff films being imported from South America and retitled the film to Snuff to exploit the idea ; he also added a new ending that depicted an actress being murdered on a film set.

Roger Ebert has written of the film's ending:

On the Laserdisc audio commentary, Scorsese acknowledged several critics ' interpretation on the film's ending being Bickle's dying dream.

Industry insiders said that the release delay was because nervous executives ordered the film's ending completely re-shot.

Colonel Linnan was portrayed as half-European, a change which she found insulting to his Chinese lineage, and she felt her reputation damaged by the Hollywood-embellished love scenes in the film ; not only had she never kissed any man, but also the film's ending portrayed her character abandoning the orphans in order to join the colonel elsewhere even though in reality she did not retire from working with orphans until she was sixty years old.

Test audience reaction to Spock's death and the film's ending ( the tone of which was dark and final ) was poor, so Bennett made it more uplifting by adding a final scene revealing Spock's casket on the Genesis planet.

The 2002 TV documentary on the making of the film, The Tramp and the Dictator, presented newly discovered footage of the film production ( shot by Chaplin's elder half-brother Sydney ) which showed Chaplin's initial attempts at the film's ending, filmed before the fall of France.

The draft that Allen presented to the film's editor, Ralph Rosenblum, concluded with the words, " ending to be shot.

At this point, the story proceeds to one of three endings: A, B, or C. In the film's initial theatrical run, some theaters announced which ending the viewer would see.

The gang looks at their dead boss and with both the Screwface's dead are presumed to be arrested at the film's ending.

Sometime after its first release, the ending was crudely altered on the film's original negative, removing over a minute's worth of shots where Hammer and Velda escape and superimposing the words " The End " over the burning house.

The film's ending also became iconic as " one of the bloodiest death scenes in cinematic history ".

Other music includes incidental music in the scene at the Ritz and an arrangement of I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby during the beginning and ending credits by the film's musical director Roy Webb.

While the Internet Movie Database states that the film's original ending had been reinstated for a re-release in 1979, Steve Biodrowski of Cinefantastique magazine claims that the film is still being released with its additional footage, including a screening at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2005, honouring director Don Siegel.

The original ending also appeared on a special edition VHS and Laserdisc release by Paramount in 1992, and was included on the film's DVD release a decade later.

On 25 July 2003, cinemas started showing the alternative ending after the film's credits.

On the DVD commentary, Boyle and Garland explain that this was the original ending of the film's first cut, which was tested with preview audiences.

Criticism was also drawn from the film's ending, claiming following Stallone's last minute decision not to kill Rocky, the film's build-up and narrative was lost.

Even though the villain's body count is only two, the film's " whodunit " plot structure, knife-wielding and mentally disturbed killer, twist ending and ' stalking ' camera technique proved influential on films to come.

The film's climax, a three-way Mexican standoff, begins with the melody of " The Ecstasy of Gold " and is followed by " The Trio.

This image begins the film's opening credit sequence.

The film is notable for its almost exclusive use of one set: with the exception of the film's opening, which begins outside on the steps of the courthouse and ends with the jury's final instructions before retiring, a brief final scene on the courthouse steps and two short scenes in an adjoining washroom, the entire movie takes place in the jury room.

Peter is devastated by this and begins his vigilante career trying to find Ben's killer, but fails to do so even after the film's end.

" The film begins with an announcement that it is " dedicato alla cara, lieta, familiare memoria di Giovanni XXIII " (" dedicated to the dear, joyous, familiar memory of Pope John XXIII "), as John XXIII was indirectly responsible for the film's creation, but had died before its completion.

They are also a comment on the addictive quality of television, as the film's audience begins to realize that they are drawn to the clips just as Chance is.

Generally, though, critics praised the film's acting and directing and noted with appreciation the lack of background music once the film proper begins.

), the show or film's theme song ( e. g. the final scene of " Homer's Triple Bypass ", from The Simpsons ; when Sam Carter hums the theme from Stargate SG-1 during the episode " Chimera "; the second Collector from Demon Knight ; when Mr. Incredible whistles theme music from The Incredibles ; when all the characters in the film Magnolia begin to sing the background music-" Wise Up " by Aimee Mann ; in Almost Famous, when one character begins to sing the background music-" Tiny Dancer " by Elton John-and all of the other characters around him immediately pick it up and sing along as well ; the moments when Sam Lowry of Brazil hums / listens to / sings the film's self-titled theme song ; when Daryl Van Horne whistles theme music from The Witches of Eastwick ; in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone when Rubeus Hagrid is briefly heard playing the main theme on a recorder ); when Quinton ' Rampage ' Jackson ( as B. A.

The film begins at a standard widescreen aspect ratio of 1. 75: 1 ( similar to the 1. 85: 1 ratio common in U. S. cinema or the 1. 78: 1 ratio of HDTV ), while Kenai is a human ; in addition, the film's art direction and color scheme are grounded in realism.

Sound is a big factor in the film's humor, as when a scene that shows New York City begins with the song " San Francisco ", only to have it come to a sudden stop as if the musicians realize they are playing the wrong music.

The " march " alluded to in the film's title begins as the soldiers march out of the toy shop ( filmed in a stop-motion animation sequence by Roy Seawright ).

When the game begins, Deckard has already been sent off on his own assignment, and the player will encounter numerous references to his activities, although McCoy and Deckard never actually meet, so as to remain consistent with the film's plot.

" Monster Zero criticized the film's production values and said that it " succeeds in carrying the series over the edge into strictly kid's stuff " and " begins the series ' inexorable slide into oblivion.

His memory of the events still completely in tact, and when he hears of the mysterious unexplained death of a little girl ( which occurs in the film's prologue ), he begins to suspect It has returned.

Roos ' work as the writer of the film Single White Female has earned him a permanent space in Hollywood movie trivia, since that title has entered the lexicon in reference to the film's psychopathic lead character who begins to take on her roommate's identity.

The film's " most outrageous sequence " begins with Sheriff J. W.

Lucario thinks of Sir Aaron as both his master and close friend, although after Aaron traps him in a magic staff at the film's outset, Lucario begins questioning any Pokémon-human relationship.

Then the film's action begins.

From there they smoke it, whilst Jack begins to sing the film's title song as the closing credits roll.