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Lets rewrite The Village ending....

posted 10 years ago by AlexRoganBeta
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I'm not a fan of the Village's twist, yea I get the point behind it but it still felt like a desperate attempt to pull the carpet from under the audience. So if any of you agree with this why don't you provide your version of the Village ending, twist or no twist. Here's mine

Lucius and Ivy fall in love but their parents will not allow them to be together. This is because they are actually ....(drum roll) half brother and sister. You know how in the movie it's alluded to that Lucious mom and Ivy's dad have feelings for each other? Well this is because the carried on a scandalous affair for years and as it turns out Lucious' father is Edward Walker. They (Lucious and Ivi, still in the dark about being Kin) defy their parents and secretly marry only to later learn the truth. Noah finds out about this union and stabs Lucious out of jealousy but this remains a mystery also to those in the movie and the viewers and isn't revealed until the climax. The monsters (yes in my version they are real) pray on people who have murder inside of them and this they hunt down and kill Noah. Sorry that's kinda dark.

[–] Buymemoney 10 years ago

The Village was the worst, most boring pos movie I've ever seen. Even if the "twist" ending didn't happen (lol...this twist that turned a boring "horror" type movie into a boring Lifetime Original movie) you are still left with the most boring pos movie I've ever seen. So bad. Here's my impression of The Village:

Nothing is about to happen but first... a speech!!! Now let's send the blind girl to find a hidden path in the forest. But first, another speech!

[–] vtastek 10 years ago

I don't think it is meant to be a twist with how it was given in the most bland way possible.

The real twist happens in Ivy's head.

When she confronts the monster, Ivy thinks "there can still be monsters, as my father's knowledge must still have bounds. They exist!"

Normally, they were terrified from Those We Don't Speak Of but that fear must have been nothing if it was just a costume. Now, confronting the real real deal, she was even more terrified! If that's even possible!

The journey from father's pov was amazingly significant it wasn't seen as dangerous at all but it was an epic showdown from Ivy's pov.

This is pointing how children realize at some point that their parents don't know everything. And to do it from a blind girl's pov. And in this context, and without blowing the con. Brilliant!

The idea is not giving all the information to Ivy so she can somehow return back without figuring it all out. It went better than that. I was pretty amazed at how it happened so elegantly. I think the experiment would still fail in the end but it would be a more natural progression as they would surely want to explore the world.

I love it too much to change it.

But I guess, it can be refactored into a twist, if we were to see it as a problem. It would require erasing or minimizing all modern day clues and making monsters more realistic or giving them less screen time.

Ivy going to woods trying to save Lucius on her own account, some Ivy's POV shots showing what she IMAGINES seeing to hide modern things with very/very tiny hints. Finish the movie, fade to black... Fade to forest, descend to the pit. Show Brody's face, end with a loud noise. (We can even add a Brody POV shot as he is dying to show an airplane. That would be funny.)

Cue endless discussions all over the internet, if monsters were real, if it was modern times etc.

:DDDD

[–] Waigon 9 years ago

I loved the ending, and movie as a whole. It's interesting how lots of people hate his later movies. I think The Sixth Sense, Signs, and The Village are all terrific from start to finish.

CDEGFEDCC. (Shhh!)

[–] charlesdusk 9 years ago

The Village is pretty good except for the ending. I hated it at first because it was sold as a horror movie. Fact is, the movie has too many good qualities for it be considered the worst as some say. Any movie that looks and sounds that great can't possibly be the worse.

Anyway, my change in the ending would be that creatures are real but benign. And that they're not in the past but people from the present who made a deal with these creatures to live in another world as long as they follow the rules. The creatures allow the girl to go back into the real world and come back again after she gets the medicine.

I like this because it sticks with the themes and ideas Night is playing with.