Ending of The Thing (2011)
At the end of The Thing (2011), Lars and his friend pursue a possibly infected dog which runs away from the facility. They chase the dog on a helicopter and Lars tries to shoot the dog from some distance. After a few shots, he can't kill it; and during the last shot, the camera shows the gun and the screen goes black.
What happens there? Could he kill it or does something happen in the helicopter?
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It is retroactively setting up the "original" The Thing (1982) for which it is a prequel. The starting scene of the 1982 movie is two Norwegians in a helicopter chasing and shooting at a sled dog that finds its way to an American camp.
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What happens in the end of The Thing 2011?
In the original ending, Kate was to discover the original pilots of the spaceship which had all been killed by The Thing, which was an escaped specimen they had collected from another planet, implying that the ship was crashed in an attempt to kill the monster.What happened at the end of The Thing?
With most of the team dead, or presumed dead, including Blair, who ended up being a falsely accused man of wisdom, MacReady uses TNT charges to not only destroy the creature, but the majority of the camp along with it. Triumphant, yet badly injured, he ends up in an outside shack where he finds Childs waiting there.Who was The Thing at the end of The Thing?
There are more than a few theories. By the end of John Carpenter's The Thing, only MacReady (Kurt Russell) and Childs (Keith David) are left standing. For decades, audiences have wondered whether or not Childs was human in the movie's ending, but it is not certain that either one of them is human.How does the original The Thing end?
The novella concludes with the humans clearly victorious, but concerned that birds they see flying toward the mainland may have been infected by the Thing. Carpenter opted to end the film with the survivors slowly freezing to death to save humanity from infection, believing this to be the ultimate heroic act.The Thing (10/10) Movie CLIP - How I Knew You Were Human (2011) HD
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WOW. I never imagined that anyone would have seen the mediocre prequel but not the ridiculously amazing original movie, which is an absolute classic, and perhaps the greatest exemplar of its genre. Excuse me while I compose myself and recover from the shock...
The filmmakers had the idea that the prequel should end exactly where the original movie begins - namely, with the Norwegians in the helicopter chasing the dog-Thing. If you actually sit down and watch the two movies back to back, you will see that this is pretty much the way it works out. The prequel did almost everything wrong, but this is one of the few exceptions to that rule.
The screenwriter, a man named Eric Heisserer, did an interview with the website Quiet Earth, which seems to be offline at the moment, but I have the relevant extract from the discussion.
If we do this right — I just spoke on the phone today with [Producer] Eric Newman on the phone today, he's on set up in Toronto [and] he said things are going well. But if we can pull this off, this movie will work perfectly [as] the first half of a double feature. So that the last shot of this film will be two Norwegians and a chopper chasing after a dog. And you can plug in Carpenter's film and they will both feel and look as they have been made around the same time.
Seriously, though- you really need to watch the REAL version of The Thing - the one John Carpenter made.
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