Ambiguous Qualities
Karla Ornelas
Professor Higgins
English 61
14 March 2017
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
“The Ugly: One bastard goes in, another one comes out. The Good: Such ingratitude after all the times I saved your life. The Good: [counting The Bad’s henchmen] One, two, three, four, five, and six. Six, the perfect number,” quoted from the western classic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, starring Clint Eastwood. It's considered a classic because of its groundbreaking script, tremendous cast and an original soundtrack, which elevates the movie to a whole another level. For example, the iconic “trio scene” which contains a three-way standoff, the soundtrack perfectly captures the intensity of the showdown, keeping the viewers in suspense which just demonstrates …show more content…
Some people find it vexing considering it deprives him or her from getting any sense of closure; nevertheless the Ambiguous is a more sophisticated way to end a movie. Because of its complexity and extreme difficulty the Ambiguous is an ambitious yet challenging and laborious way to end a movie which is why it is Academy Award worthy. The Ambiguous is a creative process that requires the audience to think, he or she is essentially helping to fill in the missing gaps with their own perspective. The director encourages and welcomes people to come up with their own conclusion which is a unique experience where you unknowingly immerse yourself into the film. The viewer gets to decide the outcome of the film whether it's a positive or negative, it just depends on the person’s demeanor in life. Subsequently the Ambiguous incites mass online debates, where endless scenarios, speculation and multiple theories are discussed which is both intriguing and invigorating because the conversation is going beyond the movie itself which the highest compliment a director could receive. For instance, John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), starring Kurt Russell as MacReady and Keith David as Childs, is a perfect example of an ambiguous ending. This cult classic takes place in Alaska, where a research team gets compromised by the Thing which is a parasitic extraterrestrial being that takes the form of its victims, leaving the rest of the team with the inability to tell who is still human. In the end MacReady kills the last Thing, making him the only human survivor left, and as he awaits freezing to death, Childs a crew member who abandoned his post suspiciously reappeared, claiming he got lost in the blizzard after he went after one of the Thing. In the last scene they both acknowledge the distrust between them, instead of fighting they just share a
Professor Higgins
English 61
14 March 2017
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
“The Ugly: One bastard goes in, another one comes out. The Good: Such ingratitude after all the times I saved your life. The Good: [counting The Bad’s henchmen] One, two, three, four, five, and six. Six, the perfect number,” quoted from the western classic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, starring Clint Eastwood. It's considered a classic because of its groundbreaking script, tremendous cast and an original soundtrack, which elevates the movie to a whole another level. For example, the iconic “trio scene” which contains a three-way standoff, the soundtrack perfectly captures the intensity of the showdown, keeping the viewers in suspense which just demonstrates …show more content…
Some people find it vexing considering it deprives him or her from getting any sense of closure; nevertheless the Ambiguous is a more sophisticated way to end a movie. Because of its complexity and extreme difficulty the Ambiguous is an ambitious yet challenging and laborious way to end a movie which is why it is Academy Award worthy. The Ambiguous is a creative process that requires the audience to think, he or she is essentially helping to fill in the missing gaps with their own perspective. The director encourages and welcomes people to come up with their own conclusion which is a unique experience where you unknowingly immerse yourself into the film. The viewer gets to decide the outcome of the film whether it's a positive or negative, it just depends on the person’s demeanor in life. Subsequently the Ambiguous incites mass online debates, where endless scenarios, speculation and multiple theories are discussed which is both intriguing and invigorating because the conversation is going beyond the movie itself which the highest compliment a director could receive. For instance, John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), starring Kurt Russell as MacReady and Keith David as Childs, is a perfect example of an ambiguous ending. This cult classic takes place in Alaska, where a research team gets compromised by the Thing which is a parasitic extraterrestrial being that takes the form of its victims, leaving the rest of the team with the inability to tell who is still human. In the end MacReady kills the last Thing, making him the only human survivor left, and as he awaits freezing to death, Childs a crew member who abandoned his post suspiciously reappeared, claiming he got lost in the blizzard after he went after one of the Thing. In the last scene they both acknowledge the distrust between them, instead of fighting they just share a