If you consider yourself a movie buff and you’ve got 5 minutes to spare today, I suggest you watch this stunning side-by-side comparison of the first and last frames of 55 well-known movies.
This is the painstaking work of the talented Jacob T. Swinney who edited this video. Swinney says that we can learn a lot about a movie by the first and last scenes. Some show decline, others progress, some are strikingly similar while the rest are completely different to one another. How many of the films do you recognise? (I’ve popped the answers in order below the video)
Watch – First and Final Frames
Cannot believe this just surpassed 1M views…thank you so much to everyone for the overwhelming praise and support!https://t.co/XfRQhMMzzC
— Jacob T. Swinney (@jacobtswinney) March 24, 2015
MUSIC: “Any Other Name” by Thomas Newman
Films used (in order of appearance):
- The Tree of Life 00:00
- The Master 00:09
- Brokeback Mountain 00:15
- No Country for Old Men 00:23
- Her 00:27
- Blue Valentine 00:30
- Birdman 00:34
- Black Swan 00:41
- Gone Girl 00:47
- Kill Bill Vol. 2 00:53
- Punch-Drunk Love 00:59
- Silver Linings Playbook 01:06
- Taxi Driver 01:11
- Shutter Island 01:20
- Children of Men 01:27
- We Need to Talk About Kevin 01:33
- Funny Games (2007) 01:41
- Fight Club 01:47
- 12 Years a Slave 01:54
- There Will be Blood 01:59
- The Godfather Part II 02:05
- Shame 02:10
- Never Let Me Go 02:17
- The Road 02:21
- Hunger 02:27
- Raging Bull 02:31
- Cabaret 02:36
- Before Sunrise 02:42
- Nebraska 02:47
- Frank 02:54
- Cast Away 03:01
- Somewhere 03:06
- Melancholia 03:11
- Morvern Callar 03:18
- Take this Waltz 03:21
- Buried 03:25
- Lord of War 03:32
- Cape Fear 03:38
- 12 Monkeys 03:45
- The World According to Garp 03:50
- Saving Private Ryan 03:57
- Poetry 04:02
- Solaris (1972) 04:05
- Dr. Strangelove 04:11
- The Astronaut Farmer 04:16
- The Piano 04:21
- Inception 04:26
- Boyhood 04:31
- Whiplash 04:37
- Cloud Atlas 04:43
- Under the Skin 04:47
- 2001: A Space Odyssey 04:51
- Gravity 04:57
- The Searchers 05:03
- The Usual Suspects 05:23