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Shawshank Redemption and other film concepts... in reverse *SPOILERS*
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Stolen from an old topic at the BPR forum.


What movies would be interesting to watch if they were played in reverse?


Here was my plot:

The Shawshank Redemption
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A white man and a black man meet on the beach. The black man gets sent to prison for not washing his hands after taking a piss at the store where he works as a bagger. After giving several banks a total of $370,000, the white guy breaks into the prison through the sewer to find the black man and gets thrown into solitary confinement for doing so. Once out, he instantly becomes friends with many of the prisoners after piping opera music from a record player throughout the prison. He also befriends many of the prison guards by doing their taxes for them. Unfortunately, all of this kissing up eventually gets on the nerves of many of the prisoners as well as the head guard until no one -- except for the black man that he befriended on the beach -- acts as if he even exists. The white guy eventually rides away with a group of others on a bus only to discover that in the time he has been gone, his wife has been having sex with a golf pro.


In a side story, a prisoner named Bogs arrives at the prison in a wheelchair and is beaten until his paralysis is cured.



Other created ideas:

Jaws  (by samuelrichardscott)
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A shark throws people up until they open a beach.


American Pie  (by filmincarnate -- not a DVDP member)
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They have sex and then become virgins.


Schindler's List  (TallGuyMe -- non-member)
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All those on the list get put back into the concentration camps


The Sixth Sense  (Alien Redrum)
[No story was given.]

Dante's Peak  (by samuelrichardscott)
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People chase lava back into a volcano and build a town.




So... what are your ideas?
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In Star Wars

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Two men and a walking carpet get a medal that sends them on to a quest the make an exploding star collapse into a death star so this death star can move around the galaxy and repair exploded planets. On this death star there is a wizard with a red magic wand who can conjur people from thin air.

When the quest has ended the younger guy decides to live with his people on a sand planet (and lives happily ever after?), the droids are returned to their mistress and then she decides to follow the wizard.

The end.
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Titanic
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In a spectacular special effects sequence the wreck of a sunken passenger liner rises from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. 700 boat people enter the ship, and together with 1500 drowned passengers they cross the ocean in a surrealistic sea voyage, to finally land in Southampton, England.
The movie ends with scenes where the living as well as the dead mix with the jubilant locals.
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The Night of the Hunter

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In 1930s West Virginia, along the Ohio River, Rachel, a tough old woman who looks after stray children, speaks directly to the camera: "They abide and they endure." She looks away and declares that "children are man at his strongest. They abide."

Harry Powell, a self-appointed preacher with the words "LOVE" and "HATE" tattooed on the knuckles of his right and left hands, is on trial for the murder of Willa, the boy and his younger sister’s mother. Police let him go so he sings hymns through the night while Rachel watches over the children with a shotgun. He flees up the river and the children chase him. He finds their dead daddy’s money, and holds a knife to their dead mother’s throat, resurrecting her. He asks the children about the money. Powell and Willa marry.

In a prison cell with the children’s daddy, Powell hears the dad say in his sleep: "And a little child shall lead them." The dad gives his son the money. The children’s father  is sentenced to hang for his part in a robbery in which two men were killed.
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Back to the Future

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is a boy who hates his parents even though they give him a very comfortable life. With the help of a mad scientist he travels back in time and tries to make his parents meet under the worst possible circumstances. He nearly gets himself killed because they barely meet at all but in the end his plan succeeds. When he returns his parents are miserable. Unfortunately his life is in the crapper, too.
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The Core

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A female astronaut and a male college professor travel to the center of the earth and set off explosions that stop the core of the planet from spinning. On their way back home, they find other humans who have somehow survived in the planet's core and take them along for the ride. Once they all make it back to the surface, you can see the effects of the stopped core via natural phenomenon occurring in greater numbers around the world.

Before going on their separate ways, they dismantle the ship. One of the men found in the core creates an anti-drill that, when shot into an open area like a large hole in a mountain, rebuilds the mountain as it once was. Another becomes a self-important snobbish professor. And yet another becomes an astronaut himself.

As the film closes, nature begins to behave more normally, even going to far as to perform miracles like bringing people who wear pace makers back from the dead.
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The Matrix


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A modern day Superman who can stop bullets with his mind and has unusual vision problems where he sees everything in green moving lines begins chasing several "men in black" characters while they fire guns at him. Soon he meets up with the head man who promptly escapes via a subway train. However, this was merely a diversion. Immediately after doing this, the man's doppelganger -- who the superhero learns are both called "agents" -- pops up from under the tracks and the two begin to fight. Brutal as it seemed, the fight ends with no clear winner (although it appears the battle diminished most of the superhero's powers) and the agent walks away.

The superhero, called Mr. Anderson by the agent, is now joined by two friends: Morpheous and Trinity. Morpheous is promptly captured after swinging into a government building via a rope attached to a helicopter. The other two, after a massive gun battle against a SWAT team in the government building lobby, walk out the front door setting off the metal detector in the process. After a transition from this place back to their ship and then back to the location again, these two are joined by others who battle another SWAT team, eventually escaping by climbing up and through the main wet wall. In need of advice, Mr. Anderson -- called Neo by his friends -- visits an oracle to try and figure out why all of these people are trying to kill him. After getting no real help, he waits in the oracle's living room, watching one kid bend spoons with his mind. The group then heads back to their ship.

As the story progresses, hoping to understand why his superpowers are fading, Morpheous convinces Neo to jump off of a building. Realizing how big of an idiot he made of himself, Neo fights Morpheous using martial arts hoping to prove himself. The two end the battle and Neo wakes up with his head strapped into a chair... his memories of knowing Jujitsu and other martial arts being wiped from his memory.

Realizing he is no longer of any use to them without his powers, the group transports Neo through this slime-filled pod into a room where he spits out a red jellybean, goes to work, and then clubbing with a girl who has a white rabbit tattooed on her shoulder. Ending the film with his memories erased, Mr. Anderson lives out his days surfing for porn on the Internet.

The Beginning.
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No other goers? 


Awakenings

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No need for a review. It's a same movie backwards as it is forwards!
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Jaws

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A shark pukes up so many people that they have to open a beach
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Could someone describe Memento in reverse, please?
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Old Yeller

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A dog rises from the dead to save some boys from wolves, and he gets to live with them. Then he steals meat from the smoke house, so they ditch him in a field.
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