Compare the First and Final Shots of 55 Powerful Films
This gorgeous supercut features the First and Final shots used in some of the most powerful and iconic movies of the last 40 years. It features the haunting music from American Beauty (yet doesn’t feature a shot from the film itself) and although it’s tough to argue with the choices made for this supercut, I think we can all agree one film painfully excluded from the list is Herbie Goes Bananas. Oh well, try to enjoy it anyway. 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 …