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Well, by the time Kane was attacked, you were already about a third of the way into Alien. And even one character dying is sort of something. And even if Hal didn't malfunction (or whatever), they still would have found the monolith orbiting Jupiter and the ending presumably would have happened.

So, in a way, you can come up with something like this for any movie.

For instance, I asked FO to name a movie randomly, without telling her why. She said Goldeneye. Okay, at the beginning of the movie, James Bond set the charges to blow earlier than he discussed with 006. This led to 006 being scarred. But if 006 had been completely killed rather than just scarred, the whole movie wouldn't have happened.

Actually, that worked out better than I had hoped. I guess a dumb example would be if James Bond died in his mother's womb.


But I think the best things like this are when you can *completely* cancel out the whole movie (not just make it unfold slightly differently) and the change takes place fairly early in the movie. And it *really* works if what the whole movie hinges on is something that seems insignificant, which you don't even think about at the time. Which is why I liked the Temple of Doom one. If Indy hadn't drank the poison, the chain of events that led him to India never would have happened. It's not just that something different would have happened in the Temple of Doom: He never would have gone to the Temple, period!

For Aliens, I was thinking, what if Ripley just didn't tell anyone about the aliens? Maybe she'd lie, or just didn't remember? That would cut the story line off even quicker.

I was talking about the Ben Hur one with FO IRL. Messala was looking for a reason to frame Ben Hur, and perhaps could have come up with one regardless of what transpired with the new govenor. But when I said that, FO came up with an even better one: If Ben Hur had just sold out his people.


Some of these are lame:

If the real estate guy in Psycho just decided he didn't mind leaving that much money in the office over the weekend.


An American Werewolf in London: If they stuck to the road (or at least didn't offend the bar people).

E.T. The Extraterrestrial: If E.T. had managed to make it back to the ship before it fled.

Finding Nemo: If Nemo hadn't disobeyed his father to "touch" the ship.

Jaws: If they just closed the beaches right away.

Muppet Movie: If Dom Deluse hadn't met Kermit to tell him about the audition.

Rosemary's Baby: If they decided to get a different apartment. [Edit: I was wrong. This would have happened anyway. The movie established that the satanist neighbors were trying to get *some* woman pregnant. Whatever one it happened to would have been the one the movie would have been about]