We all know the endings of our favorite movies, right? The Hobbits save Middle-earth from Sauron. Butch and Sundance leap out of hiding straight into a hail of bullets. “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”

Movies tend to stick to one single, memorable ending, because that’s what we all like and expect. A story should have a conclusion, and the conclusion should be definitive. Otherwise, an audience may get confused, or the message of the movie may get muddled.

Because moviemaking is such a complicated business, sometimes extra stuff gets shot and never used. (Really, that happens most of the time.) Often, some of that extra footage has to do with the ending. Maybe there was an extra few seconds that were cut, or a scene that wasn’t quite necessary or didn’t work. Or maybe there were multip

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