Alternate Ending
I read in the trivia that they changed the ending in response to test audiences. Does anyone know what the original ending was?
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I'd be curious to find out as well, since I was slightly disappointed by the way it actually did end.
If I had to guess, maybe Flor reconsiders and allows Cristina to stay in the private school, and Flor and John get together. That's what I hoped might happen.
How could Flor and John get together? The subtext of the entire movie is contained in the little line by Evelyn--Cloris Leachman. "I live my life for myself. You live your life for your daughter."
Both John and Flor have tremendous integrity--something they bear for their families. Deborah Clasky is a selfish, self-center twit who is the complete
contrast to both of them.
John stays despite his brokenness, for his children. Flor leaves because she wants Cristina to be herself, not the makeover of a cheap Beverly Hills whore.
(I'm guessing the Claskys live in Beverly Hills.)
For them to get together would betray who they are and what they stand for.
And they both stand for character awash in incorruptibility.
The alternate ending is Flor and John make love, in the actual ending they don't. Direct from a Paz Vega interview.
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jporter-6 - she said that she would have liked to see the different ending.
Your analysis of why or why not is excellent - but JP - us romantics don't delve in logic. We just want them together.
I personally would have liked it for Flor & John get together. His wife was nuts...she wasn't just on edge...she is already falling into the precipice - what a nut job.
We can sort out all the details later...
Agreed Poff! I just wanted to see John and Flor get together. Lol
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." -Gandalf the Grey
It would've been easy to "kill" the crazy wife off in some sort of "car-running-over-her-head-while-she's-jogging" accident. Consider how easily Bronte kills off the "in-the-way" crazy wife in Jane Eyre. That would've been the ending I'd have gone for.
Or, maybe I could borrow and insert a clip from Deep Impact and have "Deborah" and her lover get hit with a massive tidal wave. Of course it's her father in THAT movie but in this one, he'd Deborah's "fling." That'd be a good ending, don't cha think?
The alternate ending is Flor and John make love, in the actual ending they don't. Direct from a Paz Vega interview.
Thanks for the info.
I would describe that as more of a deleted scene than an alternate ending. And I like it. It makes Sandler less of a cuckold. Hard to get past that no matter how decent, adult and self-sacrificing his later actions. And Christina's line about her mother and Sandler having "the conversation of her (Flor's) life" while cute is thin and weak. The love making - assuming it occurred the nite of the conversation, adds meatiness, earthy reality, dimension and depth. She does call him "mi amor" when they part. You need a little more than conversation for that to work. share
OMG -- how could John and Flor get together and still have this be a good film? What the hell -- do hormones really rule people that much?
Saulisa
Logic is our best defense against The Experts.
its not hormones it was a spiritual connection. they had a connection that john and Deborah do not have
shareYes, they have something spiritual that John and Deborah do not have. I agree. However, the thing that they have in common is the belief that family/children come first. If they get together, they will violate the very belief that attracts them to each other.
Saulisa
Logic is our best defense against The Experts.
Flor wanted to stay with John, and confessed that she loved him twice. But she couldn't because of her daughter, and John for his children. That's what drew them together- there good hearts- but that's also what kept them apart.
I'm not sure if John would've stayed with Debra, and I can't remember if he does in the movie. I think it's left unknown. Debra became more unlikeable as the movie went on, and with her fat shaming her children & all, and cheating, I think I'd be almost more benefial for John to leave.
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.
Well, except for not answering the question or even approaching that, all I can say is, "overanalyze much?"
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