LOL You have a good point! A little too much “poetic” license in films at times.
I saw Diabolique. It was excellent. better than the remake.
Any fans of mystery and suspense MUST SEE the Clouzot French version of this film! I’m glad you liked it. Without giving it away, did the ending surprise you the first time you saw it because it sure surprised me, and I was trying to figure out what was going on the entire time. This film should NOT have spoilers.
It surprised me the second time too because so much time had passed since I saw it the first time I forgot how it was going to end!
I know what you mean. Disney, much as I’ve often enjoyed it, has always had a way of sanitizing the classics. On the other hand, I was somewhat relieved at the happier ending of *Hunchack of Notre Dame.Disney’s The Little Mermaid:
Ariel needed to be turned into sea foam, as in the original tale! With the sappy happy Disney ending, little girls are being told to give up their true identities…
to chase after a man they’ve never met
– because he’s hot.
Yeah, great job, Disney. :bigyikes:
Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life**:
My favorite alternate ending was created by Saturday Night Live in the 90s. Uncle Billy suddenly remembers giving the newspaper with the money in it to Mr. Potter. And the whole town becomes a lynch mob and goes after Mr. Potter.OK, the original ending was good… but SNL’s ending was so satisfying!
Gertie
Totally agree!
Well to be fair, that was a robot!
One of the fun things I enjoy on multiple viewings of films like “Diabolique” “Psycho” “Strangers On A Train” and "The Unknown (Lon Chaney, Sr. version) is watching OTHER PEOPLES’ reactions to it the first time they’re watching it. I even recall watching that classic Disney movie “Darby O’Gill & The Little People” multiple times. I first saw it at age 8 and everybody in that theater jumped during the appearances of the banshee. It was re-released when I was 13 and I went with a friend to watch in the theater, but it was his first viewing. If you’ve seen the movie then you know the scene I’m referring to. Yeah, he jumped too. Ironically as an adult I watched it again with my wife. She looked at me incredulously and said: “THAT scene made you jump?” I responded with “Well I WAS eight years old and watching it on a big movie screen. YEAH it made me jump.” Oh well, I got even with her when she watched “The Unknown” from 1927.
”LOLOL Imagination running wild! You really should get out more. Thanks for the entertaining alternative ending.For West Side Story (a film I’ve seen possibly 50 times)
My alternate ending would take place after Anita discovers that Maria and Tony had been together (while Bernardo was in the morgue and her parents likely crushed that their son was killed).
Instead of going to Pop’s store, she goes to Maria’s parents and lets them know that Maria was involved with Tony. They take Maria to New York Harbor and put her on the first ship to Puerto Rico, where she enters a convent.
Chino and Anita console each other over her loss of Bernardo and his broken engagement to Maria, and they fall in love.
Pop, instead of telling Tony “there is no Maria”, tells her. “Tony, Maria left you to go back to Puerto Rico.”
Tony says, “But she said she loved me, we sang songs about it and everything.
Pop says, “Come on Tony, you’ve only known her since yesterday, and now you’re involved in a murder investigation. Listen, I know someone at the DA’s office, maybe you can get a plea deal.”
Tony goes to the DA, confesses his part in the involvement in Bernardo’s death, and is sentenced for 15 years for Voluntary Manslaughter. He’s let out 5 years early for model behavior. Pop leaves everything to Tony in his will.
With his funds, he purchases a plot of land on Long Island and becomes a duck farmer.
In the mean time, Anita and Chino marry, and she goes to design school, since she was a talented seamstress, and becomes a designer. She opens an upscale bridal shop in New York. Chino goes to college and becomes an accountant. They live in a nice home in Yonkers.
(more like an alternate ending and sequel)
Of course, changing the ending to “West Side Story” means changing the ending to its source material (Romeo & Juliet). Of course, lots of people would like to change the ending to Romeo & Juliet, but to do so would require one to rewrite pretty much the whole story… at the very least, Juliet would need to wake up about five minutes sooner.For West Side Story (a film I’ve seen possibly 50 times)
My alternate ending would take place after Anita discovers that Maria and Tony had been together (while Bernardo was in the morgue and her parents likely crushed that their son was killed).
Instead of going to Pop’s store, she goes to Maria’s parents and lets them know that Maria was involved with Tony. They take Maria to New York Harbor and put her on the first ship to Puerto Rico, where she enters a convent.
Chino and Anita console each other over her loss of Bernardo and his broken engagement to Maria, and they fall in love.
Pop, instead of telling Tony “there is no Maria”, tells her. “Tony, Maria left you to go back to Puerto Rico.”
Tony says, “But she said she loved me, we sang songs about it and everything.
Pop says, “Come on Tony, you’ve only known her since yesterday, and now you’re involved in a murder investigation. Listen, I know someone at the DA’s office, maybe you can get a plea deal.”
Tony goes to the DA, confesses his part in the involvement in Bernardo’s death, and is sentenced for 15 years for Voluntary Manslaughter. He’s let out 5 years early for model behavior. Pop leaves everything to Tony in his will.
With his funds, he purchases a plot of land on Long Island and becomes a duck farmer.
In the mean time, Anita and Chino marry, and she goes to design school, since she was a talented seamstress, and becomes a designer. She opens an upscale bridal shop in New York. Chino goes to college and becomes an accountant. They live in a nice home in Yonkers.
(more like an alternate ending and sequel)
Completely agree with most book based movies. If it was a book interesting enough to make into a movie— why change the story?
And it’s not over yet. AMC Theatres are screening the extended editions of The Hobbit in October. Interesting side note – The EE of Battle of the Five Armies was given an R raring by the MPAA.
Children learn the good and the bad in life if they were exposed to the uncensored Grimm’s fairy tales, which often do not have a happy ending.
