Scanners Final Scene

[Baylorchick20]

This is makes sense if your stoned, great movie

[tall32guy]

@SinistralEbb It IS Cameron's body. He lit himself on fire during the ending duel with Revok and transferred himself telepathically into Revok's body.

[MarcoMinnemann]

1:50 pure joy to my ears and spirit

[markov2b1]

this woman is stunningly beautiful

[SimonCowellAI]

@lawrence3284 He's gone insane. He won but he went crazy. He sacrificed his sanity.

[710yep]

@lawrence3284

"The weird thing I don't get is why was he hiding in a corner under a cover???"

That's a good question, Lawrence, and I think I might have the answer. He was doing it for Kim's benefit because he didn't want her to become frightened by seeing Revok when walking into the room, so he hid under his coat and sent his thoughts out to her instead.

[MarcoMinnemann]

@710yep I guess that's probably it

[DictatorRoB]

WTF? Why did his voice change?! Did Vale transport his vocals into body of Revok?

[710yep]

@DictatorRoB

He did transfer aspects of his physiology to Revok's body. Take his eyes/eye color for example. Besides, the voice is a hybrid of both their voices - not just Cameron's as is widely reported.

[Sabin06]

I didnt get the ending when I was a kid but after watching this well now i understand the ending lol

[StopFear]

They may have "won" it doesn't matter if its both psychics in the body, or just one. It is the good one that has control as we can see from nicer smile and eyes.

[tojiroh]

Amazing score, can't beat Howard Shore! (la-di-da)

Revok's contacts looked silly, though. The pupils weren't centered...

I bet the face on the last scene is from a tottaly different guy. Those blue eyes look... too real!

[ragemanchoo82]

So Cameron took over his body and his soul went into it? ?_?

[TheXenomorph1]

We've won.

[chipaputalaguea]

the last battle is epic

[grzegorzaaa]

Świetny nastrój uzyskany klimatyczną muzyką Shore'a.

[wildmanchris200]

Girl's HEAD is CUTE I wanna TOUCH it!!

[Maccrack2]

@wildmanchris200 lmao

[hjberg71]

My dad took me to see this movie when I was 11 (he wanted to see it not me). Scared the crap out of me. Now when I watch it (several times over and enjoy it) it is not scary - just a little gory. This film also reminds me of 'The Fury' (1978) another telekinesis and esp flick which I also thought was scary, and my dad took me to see that one as well.

[Duvmasta]

I wonder if he could use that power to roast beef...

[CadaverousLaceration]

I like Cronenberg's style, he tells a very specific story but is just vague enough to leave some questions unanswered, which I think any good horror story should have. There's not a complete resolution. And yet he thankfully avoids being abstract, which I hate. Great film.

[Machinimaman1232]

I don't get it... Who is the good guy?

[zackhanscom]

the bald guy was better looking anyway. better to take his body

[cloudani]

Good ending.

[gareler]

greatest ending credits ever

[commonsenseisreal]

Kim wakes up later . She psychically senses Vale's thoughts and calls out to him. She discovers Revok is cowering in a corner, hidden under Vale's jacket. He reveals that he now has Vale's blue eyes (and is missing the characteristic scar between the eyebrows) and utters the last words of the film, "We've won," in Vale's voice. During their battle Vale was somehow able to transfer his consciousness, leaving Vale inside Revok's body and Revok dead in Vale's now-destroyed body.

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[CountBloh]

@commonsenseisreal

lol wiki copy paste

[DupekChopra]

I just love happy, warm-fuzzy endings.

[ThePandaLand]

um... i dont get it.. i nvr saw the movie so i dunt get much but.. i think.. the good guy is in the bad guy's bodY?

[croblesky]

bingo

[ThePandaLand]

thank you :D

[nightshadedesign]

I forgot how beautiful this girl was...

[tall32guy]

Well she was a model (maybe still is) even before she did this movie. :)

[bohlenlove]

The first film of the Scanners History is amazing. I'm not going to watch a remake!

[Kertgaferg]

You left out the bit in the credits where they have buttsex.

[r3ini]

Some people like you just make me laugh the whole week!

[JoeyHollywood1]

@Kertgaferg No way?

[SgtBanks1]

"Scanners (1981)"

[MorganScorpion]

Scanners is such a mixed film for me, there's bits I love, and bits I don't like at all.

But all the scenes with Darryl Revok are excellent, and I liked Patrick McGoohan too.

The voice fusion was ok, but I found a blue-eyed Revok very disconcerting. I also wonder what Kim Obrist felt about snuggling up with the body of her former enemy.

[RocinanteSWS]

That would definitely be bizarre. However, I don't think they were really love interests. Like everything else, I think there were a lot of ideas and subplots unexplored due to lack of time and money. Still a good movie though.

[Datan0de]

In the novelization they had sex.

[MorganScorpion]

Darryl Revok has been taken over by that talentless bore, Cameron Vale. Now that's what I call horrifying!

[710yep]

lol Indeed, it is horrifying. I happen to like both this scene and the scanners duel very much. How do you like the way they fused both actors' voices to sound like one?

[mamaluigitoyou]

i wanna see a clip of the head explosion of that volunteer and the bits that happen after it can u upload it plz?

[710yep]

why should i upload it when there are numerous incarnations of it uploaded on youtube by other people. Just do a search and I'm sure you'll find it.

[inugod4]

@710yep ya....

[numnunums]

@710yep Maybe its now two people as one? Who says Vale completely took over?

[zackhanscom]

@numnunums first of all, what would the thematic significance of that be? in order to fit the story, the theme and the message, it makes sense that he completely took over. watch the duel scene, it make it clear that although revok destroys vale's body, vale managed to destroy revok's mind and took over his body.

[numnunums]

@zackhanscom thematic significance?

Everything you are is gonna become me. You're gonna be with me Cameron, no matter what.

I don't think morals really have much to do with it as the main character is flatter than a board. Hard to moralize that. Also I don't think he could destroy him completely as that's just too simpleminded. I personally prefer it nice and vague like it is now. Changing eye color means nothing except that Cameron is currently in control.

[710yep]

@numnunums That's certainly a valid interpretation. In fact, that's what I believe Cronenberg hinted at with the voice fusion. I think he said as much in an interview.

[SimonCowellAI]

@numnunums Makes me think of the Star Trek Lazarus episode, where Lazarus A is suppressing the entity of Lazarus B. Or the movie Prophecy with Christophere Walken, where they hide the soul of HItler inside the ArchAngel MIchael.

[leonbrain68]

@MorganScorpion No, not necessarily! "We won!"...the question is which side

won, the good side or bad side? Best ending ever, keeps you guessing!

[Gizzygirl234]

@leonbrain68 I haven't seen the movie before except for this part (and I read the wiki summary), but I'm thinking that both sides have officially balanced out now- like the movie "Legend" :]

[SomeWhereInTheSouth]

@MorganScorpion ..Oh no shit, brother! If it hadn't been for Michael Ironside this movie would have been a direct to video flop. This had to be the first movie in history where the strongest performance came from a cameo. (No wait, I forgot about Peter O' Toole in "Caligula")