We watched this is my AP World History class, and we just finished it today.
I loved the movie and thought it was really amazing, compared to the other garbage we're forced to watch in school.
However the ending killed me. I loved the entire thing and then the last ten seconds it has to show the slide about how he looked for her in Paris but never found her. What kind of crap was that?! haha. It just made me really upset.
Wow, I guess my opinion is totally to the contrary. I don't think this film has anything lost in school (I hope it was not in history class, it couldn't be any more misplaced) and usually you get to see quality films in school.
However, I hoped he would not find Lucienne in Paris, because he actually had no chance to really do, so this was the only thing I liked in the film.
I know we never hear her last name in the movie, but I never assumed he didn't know it or had no way of finding it out (hence my annoyance at the ending, although I'm not normally one to root for happy endings at all cost). Even if we assume he didn't know her last name: he knew where she was from, where she lived, that she had a brother and sister-in-law who had died at a certain place, that their family had owned this particular place... It shouldn't be too difficult to ask people around for her name and whereabouts. Even just a name. I think they did a terribly unrealistic job with that ending, much more terrible than the whole "landing in no-man's-land" part, which was over the top but acceptable in a movie-world (at least to my poor uneducated self as far as flying a WWI plane is concerned; the love story and its unsatisfactory ending was not).
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We just watched this in our History class last week too.
I was really impressed by the storyline. It's alot better than what they usually show us. I know a lot of the girls (myself included) we're almost in tears to the fact that they never found each other. The love story part really made the movie great.
I really did enjoy it though and am considering renting it and watching it again. Normally I hate any movie shown in class but this one was like no other.
I had a slight crush on James Franco and this movie made it better : ) It was really informative in the historical part and I am glad I saw it.
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totally agree lmao i was so pissed. i love happy endings,wish they lied to us. haha
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Yeah what was up with that? They made up so much stuff for the movie, why get real at the end? LMAO.
shareI haven't read this thread yet...but I'm kinda upset...
It's time many more learn to accept the truth...life often sucks...happy endings are rare?
I am contemplating screenwriting...and two ideas are NOT happy endings...in fact one is...ugly...
Anyway...sorry to vent...but I find the fact that producers don't wanna 'disappoint' viewers like ballerina makes movies way too predictable...as in BORING!
I don't mind crying over a film...except for 4 where I didn't wanna accept the ugly truth...I EXPERIENCED and FELT! That's what movies are about for me...not a 'good time', but an experience. Make me think, make me feel, or both...
The real ending to me was when he pulled up in his plane and shot that Nazi in the face with his pistol that was some baller *beep* I jumped up and cheered in the theater when that happened!
sharekturetsky, talk about a cliqued ending. It is the old Rocky formula all the way. Hero is getting battered. Bad guy moves in for the kill. Hero comes to life, suddenly has superhuman abilities and vanquishes the villain. How trite can you get?!
shareWell I did some research and the person who blaine portrayed in the movie, Charles mckay, actually found his love in 1937 in paris believe it or not but she was already married to someone else.
shareSome 20 years after the events portrayed in this movie? I would have been surprised if she hadn't been already married.
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I prefer they didn't find each other, because it would only make sense people are dislocated and disconnected in the aftermath of a war.
The romance in the movie doesn't have to do much with the heroism of WWI pilots, it's cliche at best. They didn't have the Internet, nor a good communication device to contact each other. Written letter is only useful when you know the other person's address. If the main character really loved the French girl, they wouldn't have departed in a hurry without setting up contingency plans in case they didn't find each other. All in all, I find it acceptable they didn't find each other in the end.
Of course, if you're looking for a predictable happy ending, then this film's ending definitely would leave you heartbroken or confused.
Not me. I just love it when they surprise me with sad endings.
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