Need help with ending

[Begbie2004]

My script is about a man who after being in a pretty brutal car accident, develops psychic powers which give him really bad head aches. One day the FBI approaches him asking for help in finding a serial killer. The killer murders his victims with an axe. The agents show this man (Rob) some pictures of the dead victims and the scenes of the crime. Rob begins to get serious headaches and nightmares as he gains a psyonic link with the killer. As he grows closer to finding out the killers identity, he grows ever closer to insanity. The scene I am up to is where Rob confronts the hooded killer in a warehouse. I have an idea about how it should end but I feel that it is too played out and unoriginal. If you could help me with an ending that would be great.

[Cyd V]

Sorry to burst your bubble but you just described the movie the dead zone, and it's also a little like the fury... Maybe it was a subconscious theft...:eek:

[wilykily]

Yeah he's right I do that sometimes when I write a script and when were filming my freinds are like dude that was in the rock or something and I'll be like oh yeah. I worte about it without thinking about the movie but it was a total copy


but if you want an ending just have the axe murdurer kill the brainfucked dude and since his brain was connected to the killers it also kills him

[Begbie2004]

Thanks. Thats a really good one. I was thinking that the killer and Rob were the same person and that when they meet they fuse back into the original form and the FBI sees the axe in his hand and they shoot him dead

[Scarface98.9]

Originally posted by Begbie2004
Thanks. Thats a really good one. I was thinking that the killer and Rob were the same person and that when they meet they fuse back into the original form and the FBI sees the axe in his hand and they shoot him dead
This is really reminding me of the cinematic classic, The Three, which was written by Donald Kaufman

[Cyd V]

Of coarse donald kaufman... If you write this don't forget to use the broken mirror simbolism...:rolleyes:

[Kastman]

Originally posted by Cyd V
Of coarse donald kaufman... If you write this don't forget to use the broken mirror simbolism...:rolleyes:

or if possible, even MORE sarcasm.

[Ronaldinho]

Part of the reason the ending feels unoriginal is because the whole thing is pretty unoriginal. The mysterious link between killer and cop is very well trodden ground.

Doesn't mean it can't be done again, of course, but...

[TheDeadWalk]

Originally posted by Ronaldinho
Part of the reason the ending feels unoriginal is because the whole thing is pretty unoriginal. The mysterious link between killer and cop is very well trodden ground.

Doesn't mean it can't be done again, of course, but...

Hollywood seems intent on making films that have already waltzed the trodden ground though...

Keeping things in the big perspective, I would keep residual references to other movies and such in your film. They will probably want something that isn't too risky, and will remind them of a previous success. Don't exactly go and rip off certain scenes and sequences, but don't feel bad about using them for inspiration.

I would perhaps though change the car wreck scenario, even if slightly. Perhaps if you like the car theory, have him crash into a nearby river, or creek. While underwater for a heavy period of time it could be implied that he was rescued at a point to which he was about to suffer brain damage, and that in a scientific theory that in a moment before brain damage occurs your central nervous system gives off a massive synaptic response to the brain. (A certain paradox, or electro-charge that could allow him to use more than 10% of the brain, and that extra percentage is also quantitively divided into a separate personality)

Of course, a bum doctor could have a theory on this, but having CNN discover it on National News would be a travesty, because in reality you'd have military scientists trying it on people, and you'd probably want this to be a unique thing with your character.