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Which ending was your favorite?


I personally thought ending A should have been the real ending, although I did also like B.

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By far ending C. It was the most unexpected of them all with everyone each committing a murder, Wadsworth really being Mr. Body, and Mr. Green being an FBI agent undercover. Regardless, it was the real ending remember (but here's what really happened...).

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Yeah, C, I always liked that one. Though I have to admit, the whole '1 + 2 + 1 SHUT UP!' bit was terrific too.

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They were all good. It's either A or C though.

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I also like C, with Michael KcKeen being the undercover agent.

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Mrs Peacock ending is the best.

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Ending A.


Really there aren't really true endings even though they said that ending C was the "what really happened."


Ending A makes more sense. -maybe except for Plum's assertion of Mr. Boddy's death.


Ending C implies that Wadsworth/Mr.Boddy did not anticipate that the fake Boddy would turn on him when he gives the weapons to the guests.

Also if Mr. Green was some top agent then it wouldn't make sense for him to be tossed around all the time during the film.


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The Mr. Green ending.

I like the surprises we get in that ending to the very end.

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Ending C, though it might in part be due to I would always play as Mr. Green with the actual game.

Though I think my favorite line of the endings is the Mrs. Peacock ending. "Mrs. Peacock was a man?!" (slap, slap).

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This movie was why I always played as Mr. Green in the actual game.

And I really really hoped I wouldn't die

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The ending where they all are part of the murder plot except Green who was an FBI agent. I like all three of them, but to me this one is the one that makes the most sense. And if anything else it had Kahn's great "Flames on the side of my face" line.

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I liked C the best, but each had their charm.
I just like to imagine what it would have been like to be in the theater and see ONE ending, and talk about it (or argue with coworkers or friends) around the water cooler ("THAT'S not what happened!").

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c is my favorite

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I kind of like all 3. But I guess the 3rd one is the most exciting ending with it turning out everyone killed their own informants except Mr. Green. Though it's possible Wadsworth/Mr. Boddy may've been his informant. None of the endings even say who his informant is.

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(Spoilers ahead. Just in case.)

My favorite is A, for two reasons. First, they definitively name one of the 6 guests as the killer (although she still didn't physically kill the first two victims), and actually give a good explanation for how the killer knew about the secret passages. Second, I love Wadsworth and don't want him to be the bad guy.

My least favorite is B because it's not even plausible. I suppose I can buy that Mrs. Peacock realizes that her former cook is at the mansion just based on having been served one of her "favorite recipes" (Remember, none of the guests actually see the cook before she's killed). But how could she possibly have known about the secret passages? Plus, she would have had to separate from Professor Plum twice, and go upstairs and risk running into Miss Scarlet and Col. Mustard twice. Notice that this is the only ending that doesn't have any "flashbacks" of the murders being committed. Wadsworth just says "you murdered them all," without explaining how she did it, based only on the flimsy evidence that she recognized the dish served at dinner, and she wasn't in the doorway when the others ran to Yvette. Besides, nothing really funny happens in this ending, aside from "Mrs. Peacock was a man?" <Slap! Slap!>

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Second, I love Wadsworth and don't want him to be the bad guy.


I agree!

My least favorite is B because it's not even plausible.


I agree its the least plausible. Its not believable for the reasons you say and also its hard to believe a weak, frail old woman like Peacock could overpower Mr Body and Yvette two young, fit people. Seriously Yvette should have been able to fight her off.

However to be fair all of the 3 endings have plot holes. I love the film its among my top 5 favourite films, but certain things don't add up. I guess that's what happens when you have multiple endings. Granted they do a good job in making all 3 just as plausible for the most part. In the scene in kitchen for instance when Mr Boddy is killed, Yvette, Mrs Peacock and Professor Plum are all missing leaving the viewer to decide which ending is the true one, unlike if say Yvette was still there as then you'd know ending A was BS.

Still even with that things don't add up for all 3.

Ending C doesn't make sense as Mrs White is clearly upstairs when Yvette is choked, you hear her screaming "help me" when Yvette is heading into the Billiard room. There's no way she could have gotten down there in time. Also how did Colonial Mustard and Mrs Peacock know about the secret passage way's? Also why didn't they hear the cook screaming? I love the way these plot holes were answered in Ending A, but they were just forgotten about in ending C.

Ending A doesn't make sense in terms of Wadsworth's explanation. Why did he bother explaining all that stuff about the secret passageway when Yvette didn't use it?

All of that the murderer could have stayed behind while we were talking to Yvette, murder the cook and head back into the study, or use the secret passage to go back through the kitchen creep up behind Mr Boddy and kill him doesn't apply to Yvette.

She killed the Cook before they arrived to help her and she waited behind when they went to the kitchen so in both cases she didn't use the secret passage and thus that whole plot point was pointless.

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I just realized a mistake this old poster made. Technically parts of Ending A still apply in the other 2 endings. Since they all take up from Wadsworth shutting off the lights. That means the explanation of Mrs. Peacock screaming being why they didn't hear the cook screaming is also part of those endings. As is Wadsworth run down of the entire evening to everyone.

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> None of the endings even say who his informant is.

Mr. Green was never being blackmailed and he had no informant. He was a plant (not a fruit). Notice that when Mr. Green outed himself as a homosexual, Wadsworth got a confused look on his face and shuffled through his papers. He obviously had no information on Green's situation and didn't expect Green to say that.

Now, that kind of messes up the ending, since Wadsworth reveals that he is Mr. Boddy and that he's been blackmailing all of them all this time. He should have known all along that Green wasn't one of his "clients".

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"Mr. Green was never being blackmailed and he had no informant. He was a plant (not a fruit). Notice that when Mr. Green outed himself as a homosexual, Wadsworth got a confused look on his face and shuffled through his papers. He obviously had no information on Green's situation and didn't expect Green to say that.

Now, that kind of messes up the ending, since Wadsworth reveals that he is Mr. Boddy and that he's been blackmailing all of them all this time. He should have known all along that Green wasn't one of his "clients"."


That explanation only applies to the third ending. Not the 1st or 2nd. Also I did notice that Wadsworth does look surprised when Green confessed what he did. I took that more as him being shocked he'd confessed to what he was being blackmailed for.

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I also noticed his expression while looking through his papers and it seemed one of surprise, not shock. No doubt a reference to the third ending.

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