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The ending and the disappointment

posted 17 years ago by Freak-from-hell
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I sort of missed the ending. I really liked the movie, but I just didn't catch the last couple of scenes! Can anyone tell me what happens after Cassandra tells Stephen that she doesn't love him?

On another note, who else was disapointed by that? I honestly thought that she would end up falling for him. She was clearly very attracted to him in the beginning. You don't use the term "greek god" and then change your mind!

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[–] MoonsofJupiter 17 years ago

Stephen goes to Simon and tells him that Rose doesn't love Neil but is only marrying him for her family's security. Rose and Simon marry. Neil visits Cassandra and asks her if she'd like to be his "companion" when he goes back to America. He tells her he doesn't love her but likes her. Cassandra refuses to go with him. The father James gets back with his crazy artist wife.

If I had been Cassandra, I'd have been all over Stephen like white on rice. But that's just me.

[–] Freak-from-hell 17 years ago

Oh no, it's not just you. If there was an amazing greek God-like guy who was crazy about you, would you choose the scrawny moustache guy? What the hell!?!? I mean, sure, he's rich, but Stephen actually liked her. I mean, she should have just taken what she coul get...

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[–] auds008 17 years ago

WHOA WHOA WHOA. you have that completely ass backwards! LOL! moonsofjupiter has confused neil and simon.

*spoiler* in the movie simon is set to marry rose, then stephen (henry) tells simon's brother neil the truth, and it's revealed that neil and rose were actually madly in love instead. stephen tells cassandra that he did this for her, so she could be with simon. then neil and rose move to america and then simon asks cassandra to be his companion and move to america with him, but she turns him down in order to "wait until he's ready" because she knows he's still in love with rose.

the whole ending of the movie was bunk to me, but the person who created this topic has one thing confused too: cassandra said that OTHER PEOPLE thought stephen looked like a greek god, but "she couldn't see it." cassandra was all kinds of crazy, claiming she wanted to marry someone who was madly in love with her, hence why she wouldn't marry simon when he asked, despite being in love with him... but when stephen asked to marry her she turned him down because she wasn't in love with him, despite how insanely in love with her he was. and frankly she wasn't good looking enough for either of them. the movie really did suck.

the only part that was any good was when that older woman was fawning over henry and saying she liked things that were "angular" lmao. the look on henry's face killed me.

[–] Natashashkd 17 years ago

*SPOILERS*

MoonsofJupiter, you got the names wrong. Rose was originally engaged to Simon (the older brother), not Neil. Stephen went to Neil (not Simon) to tell him that Rose isn't in love with his brother Simon. Rose ended up marrying Neil, as she was in love with him. Cassandra fell in love with Simon, while he still was Rose's fiance.

To the OP: it's very obviosuly not a Hollywood movie where everyone ends up "happy ever after". It's a realistic movie. Cassandra was not in love with Stephen, bottom line. Deal with it. Tough I know. Real life as opposed to a fairy tale, is tough too.

auds008, I know it may sound crazy to you, but Cassandra actually wanted both to love and be loved back. She wanted to marry a man whom she was in love with, and who would be in love with her too - like Rose did. Cassandra didn't want anything less than that. She's 18 years old, for God's sake, she didn't have time to become a cynic. And Rose told her at her wedding something like: "I only wish you could be this happy".

[–] gwenr 16 years ago

The movie ends that way because that's how the book ends.

[–] HarlowMGM 12 years ago

Moonsofjupiter didn't get the ending backward, just got the brother's names confused which is fairly easy to do.

I felt the ending was very good because it wasn't "Hollywood", Stephen cleared the way for both Neil and Rose to be with their "true loves", each other, and also so Cassie's true love Simon would be available for her. Trouble is Simon doesn't love her but he's willing to have a loveless marriage with her since he can't see himself getting over Rose. Cassie, even though the man of her dreams is proposing, doesn't want him on those terms so declines in hopes he will either come around to loving her (though why she didn't think this might could happen quicker and easier if he was in a relationship with her I don't know) or she will move on at some point and love someone else. So Cassie does not get her true love and neither does Stephen, whom she still has no feelings for. Basically Cassie and Stephen are in the same boat although it seems Stephen would be happy enough with her even if she didn't totally love him.

and frankly she wasn't good looking enough for either of them.

This is kind of a running theme in these British period (dare I say) "chick flicks", a rather ordinary girl is pursued by two rather dashing men although I do see far more appeal in Romola Garai than most of the actresses in these films, she does have a pleasant personality and is attractive. The plain girl/hunky beaus theme is much more pronounced in other films like DREAMING OF JOSEPH LEES.