As a hardened 54 year-old movie exec living in Hollywood, trust me when I say movies don't just make themselves, folks. Movie scripts are written and rewritten approximately 174.2 times. Sometimes entire scenes are shot and discarded. Which means there is rom-com-dram gold out there that has never seen the light of day. Did you know some of your favorite movies had alternate endings that never made it to the silver screen or the DVD special features? We imagine some of them here. From the cutting room floor (that's industry lingo, because I'm a hardened 54 year-old movie exec):
Back to the Future: Doc Brown falls off the clock tower, and Marty McFly is forced to stay in 1955, where he lives in his parents' basement as "Uncle Marty." When his parents get married and give birth to him, the space-time continuum is ruptured and the universe implodes.
The Princess Bride: After their daring escape from Prince Humperdink's castle, Buttercup and Westley get in an argument because Westley refuses to stop and ask for directions. Buttercup flees into the more sympathetic arms of Fezzik. The spurned Westley goes back to being a pirate, joined by his new second mate, Inigo Montoya.
Titanic: Both Jack and Rose are rescued. They pawn the Heart of the Ocean and use the money to buy five Irish pubs in Boston, where Rose performs nightly as the burlesque dancer Titanic Twinkie.
Dirty Dancing: Johnny drops Baby during The Lift; she sprains her ankle. Johnny tells her to "walk it off." She tells him she didn't carry a watermelon to be talked to like that. They realize this is never going to work.
The Breakfast Club: On Monday at school, none of the kids talk to each other, which makes the following week—when they all get detention again—super awkward.
Forrest Gump: Jenny isn't home. Forrest leaves the chocolates in front of her door, but her nosy neighbor across the hall steals and eats them.
Jaws: The shark gets them.
The Wizard of Oz: The Yellow Brick Road leads to Detroit, not the Emerald City. Deciding they still like Detroit better than Kansas, Dorothy, the Lion, the TinMan and Scarecrow stay and go in on a duplex together.
Would you still love your fave movies with alternate endings?
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