10 Famous Movie Endings That Were Total Accidents

10. The Trippy Final Shot Was Due To A Faulty Camera - The Last Temptation Of Christ

Martin Scorsese's biblical drama The Last Temptation Of Christ concludes with Jesus (Willem Dafoe) dying on the cross, the film abruptly ending as the frame is enveloped by a strange array of ethereal lighting patterns before transitioning to the end credits.

Though audiences quite reasonably assume this final lighting trick was an entirely intentional flourish from a master filmmaker to symbolise Jesus' journey off the mortal plane, it was actually a total accident.

During shooting, there was a technical issue with the camera used to film the scene, and upon reviewing the footage Scorsese discovered that the colour integrity of the image had been compromised.

But Scorsese ultimately liked the effect enough that he decided to keep it as the movie's mesmerising final image. And yet, looking at the film in all of its haunting ambition, it never seems anything less than completely intentional.