10 Original Endings That Would Have Ruined Famous Movies
5. The Bourne Identity - ...Turns Into The Notebook
The Actual Ending:
Jason Bourne has managed to evade capture from the CIA, reform bits and pieces of his lost memory, and even start a serious relationship with a woman whom he initially only used for her automobile.
Deciding that a life of using corpses as human shields isn't the kind of life he'd prefer - a lifestyle that led to him parting ways with aforementioned love interest Marie in order to protect her - he retires to a small island. Which just so happens to be the same small island Marie went to.
Awww.
The two share some light banter and a passionate hug. Roll credits.
The Ending We Almost Got:
Instead of the brief and subtle moment of sweetness between them, which suggests a potentially happy ending for the love birds without going overboard, the filmmakers go for maximum gooeyness.
There's a long montage of Jason searching for his lost love all over the island while she pines for him at her scooter shop. Then eventually see each other from a distance and basically run to each other in slow motion on the beach. All to a soundtrack that was likely cut from Dawson's Creek for being "too schmaltzy".
It's cheesy, cliché, and completely out of touch with the rest of the movie.