False ending
A false ending is a device in film and music that can be used to trick the audience into thinking that the work has ended, before it continues.
The presence of a false ending can be anticipated through a number of ways. The medium itself might betray that the story will continue beyond the false ending. A supposed "ending" that occurs when many pages are still left in a book, when a film or song's running time has not fully elapsed, or when only half the world has been explored in a video game, is likely to be false. As such, stories with an indeterminate running length or a multi-story structure are much more likely to successfully deceive their audience with this technique. Another indicator is the presence of a large number of incomplete story lines, character arcs, or other unresolved story elements at the time of the false ending. These elements can leave the audience feeling that too much of the story is incomplete and there has to be more.
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False endings are a known device in classical music. Josef Haydn was fond of them, for example inducing applause at the wrong place in the finales of his String Quartet, Op. 33 No. 2 (nicknamed "The Joke")[1] and Symphony No. 90.[2] The first movement of Prokoviev's Classical Symphony contains false endings.[3]
False endings are also a common custom in popular music. The Beatles used false endings in many of their songs, including "I'm Only Sleeping", "Get Back", "Hello, Goodbye", "Cry Baby Cry", "Helter Skelter", "Rain", and "Strawberry Fields Forever".[4] Other songs that use false endings include Guns 'n' Roses' "November Rain", Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" (full version), David Bowie's "Suffragette City", Gorillaz' "Dare", Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten", Foo Fighters' "Come Back", Alice in Chains' "Rain When I Die", and Beastie Boys' "Sabotage".[5]