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How It Should Have Ended --Add your own!--

posted 9 years ago by n-milo
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Loved the movie, but with such an ambiguous end, I couldn't help but add to it... continuing on from where the movie originally ended, I went with a take on a Hollywood Cliché end (yes, I know this is in no way faithful to the source material, but I wanted to have fun with it... please add your own!)

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Near sighted woman sitting by herself in the Restaurant, someone walks up to her just off screen, she turns to the ominous presence.

David walks out of the bathroom defeated, unable to blind himself. Walks to booth, but she’s gone!

He hears her scream his name, looks out window to see the Short Sighted Woman right before she’s tranquilized and dragged into the Hotel Bus.

He runs outside as the bus takes off… He continues running as the bus vanishes in the distance.

——

David arrives at the Hotel, heaving and covered in sweat. He ran the whole way and its now night… the bus is parked out front.

Inside the hotel, the Short Sighted Woman wakes up in the Transformation room… She starts screaming.

David hears the screams [yes... lots of screaming] and heads towards them-- sneaks into the hotel (using his skills gained from the Loners), He’s dodging guards and taking out guests left and right…. He manages to grab a tranquilizer gun off the last guard he encounters (they’re standing just outside the Transformation room.)

David opens the door, dramatic reveal: the Loner Leader is there (oh yeah, she survived the whole dog attack and escaped the grave… only she’s gnarled and bloody, looking every part the monster she really is…)

Long story short: She knocks the tranquilizer gun from Davids grasp, they fight, she gets the upper hand and is about to kill David with a scalpel...

She then says something here, to the effect that she’s been in-cahoots with the Hotel the whole time… or insert any other fitting big twist cliché.

Right before she’s about to deliver the final blow, she’s shot by the tranquilizer gun— Reveal: the near sighted woman holding the gun, she just pulled off some very Daredevil-ish skills (blind but uses her other senses.)

David and the Near Sighted woman embrace… She says something about being thankful that he didn’t skewer himself with the knife, he apologizes that he didn’t join her… she replies with a joke that makes everything alright (a play on the ‘blind leading the blind')

They look over the unconscious Loner Leader, David has an aha moment.

Fade to--

POV: eyes opening on Davids face.

The Short Sighted woman, her eyesight now restored! --they embrace one more time [gotta love 'dem embraces!]

Loner leader lies unconscious on the operating table… ehhh, lets make her dead--

Kk, so Loner Leader is dead on the operating table, she’s got hollowed out eye sockets. David explains that he used the transformation skills he gained when he transformed the heartless woman into an animal — He continues, says he first learned about the procedure when the Limping man brought it up at dinner one night [remember that scene?]

David goes into details, organ transplants etc… Near Sighted Woman cuts him off as she realizes…

'OMG… I can see you so clearly now.' She starts to get it… blinks, opens he eyes wide, scans the room, ‘I don’t need contacts!'

David face turns sour.

'I’m not Near Sighted anymore!' she exclaims.

David turns and looks to the camera, with an 'awwwww shucks!' look on his face.

Freeze frame on David's expression as we fade to black.

[–] therefdotcom 9 years ago

they should have ended it after the first half. he flees, fade to black, music plays (garbage "the trick is to keep breathing".

[–] julienrodger 9 years ago

They should have gone to the hotel and both become bats

[–] Mr.Big 8 years ago

LOL

G1

[–] spllchksuks 9 years ago

I rather liked the ambiguous ending but I felt it needed a bit more sadness to me. I was expecting/wanting the film to end with Rachel Weisz's character sitting in the booth and then when the waiter approached, she would straighten up and say something like, "David?"

And then the waiter would walk past her and she would deflate.

[–] toosmalltotakeitall 9 years ago

How about ending with the steak knife going into Colin's eye or at least him walking to the booth bloody, looking like The Governor, from TWD. Hated the fade to black on Rachel.

[–] TheHradman 8 years ago

As he looks into camera. The curb your enthusiasm themed starts to play. https://youtu.be/6MYAGyZlBY0

[–] dsmilos 8 years ago

hahahha, OMG thats genius :D

[–] MoviemanCin 8 years ago

Hated the movie.

It should have ended with David going back to the hotel, and shooting the cruel *a**holes* in charge with the tranquilizer gun, or maybe a real gun. Then he should hunt down the Loners, who were almost as bad as the jerks in charge of the hotel.

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.

[–] csmillie1993 8 years ago

I guess you should just stick to action movies then

[–] kenny-164 8 years ago

The problem is that the film's themes and point of view did not add up, and so it boxed itself into an ambiguous ending.

An alternative would be David comes back to the near sighted woman, and says "I love you and want to be with you. But I realize we both have to understand something.

"I was just in the bathroom, contemplating blinding myself to be more like you, to share that trait that binds us. And I would have done that if it was both necessary to be with you and would have helped us do that.

"But then I thought how you have already followed me here, come with me into the City, and did not ask me to blind myself. What was leading me to consider doing so, then? It is the notion that we must both share the same condition regarding eyesight. But is that true? I no longer think so, just as we have learned we do not buy into the City's laws, which are lies, and have already seen we do not want to be like the Loners, either.

"I will be better able to take care of you if I am not blind, and we have other things in common to base our love on. I led you here with my sight, and you followed me, so do you agree?"

At which point the woman either will or won't, but in my ending she will do one or the other.

[–] randinmusic 8 years ago

Hmm. I could understand you wanting that ending, but it's completely out of character with the film so doesn't belong. I don't think the films themes and point of view are at all in conflict. I think you very sensibly refuse to accept the way these characters see the world. The film gives us a world with an exaggeration of the common philosophy that a couple have to share "a thing" - hobby, defining characteristic, etc. - to be a match. They shared near-sightedness. That was their thing. He was threatened by the other man who brought her a rabbit until he was convinced the other man was not near-sighted. When she was blinded, he tried to find something else they could share, like speaking German, but they couldn't find anything else. There was nothing ambiguous about this in the film. Nor was there a time in the whole film that people spoke in anything but short, simple ideas. Now you're asking him to suddenly see the light and become a miraculous Hollywood-ending hero who monologues about rejecting everything their world is based on.

Ain't gonna happen. The ending was perfect for the film.

[–] Buffy_Spike 8 years ago

When I was watching the end my friend and I had the same thoughts about how it was going to end. He was either going to come back to the table and just pretend to be blind or we would have seen him running past the window she was sitting in front of.

[–] lantzn 8 years ago

I would prefer him running off being seen from her window view only to be smashed by one of the dozer vehicles. Leaving her never knowing what happened to him.