This was a fantastic movie - what ruins it is Jenny's death out of nowhere! One minute she's fine and healthy the next she's dying! She certainly didn't look sick and about to die! I think the writers didn't know how to end the movie so they did a cop out and have Jenny die! Couldn't they come up with a better ending???
shareI loved the movie but it was a simple love story. Boy meets girl....boy loses girl.....everyone now and then need a good cry at a book or theatre. MAD magazine did a spoof on it and the Oliver character yells to the doctor "Why does she have to die?". The answer from the doctor was that this is a cheesy soap opera and if she doesn't die the film will. It was meant to be a joke but it was the truth.
shareWhy does it need to have a happy ending to be a good movie?
At least, Hollywood got this one right, which is rarely the case.
Jenny dying was the plot twist that made this movie a success. The movie is a tear jerk-er.
shareThe guy wrote on this board that she dies from nowhere....The first line in the book and the movie is "What can you say about a 25 year old girl who died? You know the outcome right after the movie starts....You are just seeing the recollection of the grieving husband. I even remember a famous critic saying when the film came out to massive audiences that he did not understand why people cared so much and was rooting for a love affair that they knew would end in tragedy. Like the other guy said, it's a tearjerker.....
shareJenny dying was the whole point of the story! It's about love and losing the one you love!
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It's very simple why Jenny dies at the end. They needed something for the third act of the movie, and they didn't have anything. What were they going to do? Continue to write about a happy, realistic young couple making their way in the world?
So somebody said, "Let's have her die! That'll be a great tearjerker ending."
And so, Jenny dies of what has since become known as "Ali MacGraw's Disease." It's a disease that only movie characters get, which has no name, no symptoms, and no indications except that the movie character gets more and more beautiful as death approaches.
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I could wrong, but didn't the book get released after the movie?
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
*~Tennessee Williams~*
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I hear ya. That was sad. But look at A Walk to Remember.
No Day But Today. Today 4 U. One Song Glory.
How we gonna pay last year's RENT?!
Jenny died because the point of the movie was to show young love. It was more effective in the movie if she died rather than have Oliver and her break-up later on. If she hadn't died they would have eventually broken up. I just didn't see that relationship lasting a very long time.
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No way they would have broken up. they had the true understanding of love and for each other. Yes they were of totally different cultures and personalities, but they totally connected. Just has they had fights, they fought even harder to make up and couldn't go on without feeling the love together.
But Life is Death, and they could not overcome that one thing...
,,,even in the end, she tells him she doesn't care about Paris and all that other crap, but just him and him being beside her..even as she died.
So, no way they would have parted..