Isn't the ending a bit abrupt?

I liked the movie but I waited for 2 hours to see a more romantic scene between Jean and James...and it never happened. I didn't like that! =( Especially cause he never tells her that he loves her back after he reads the note, I felt sorry for poor Jean.

I took an American Film appreciation class in college. The professor taught us that these abrupt endings in old movies were quite the norm in Hollywood for many, many years. It was just the way they did things back then, because moviemaking was born out of a very long era of only having live theater for visual entertainment. It wasn't until the 60's and 70's that styles regarding movie endings started to change towards a more gradual, explanatory end instead of the abrupt theatrical curtain-drop endings of yesteryear. George Lucas enhanced the change even further by being the first to create the minutes-long unabridged list of credits at the end of a film, when he made Star Wars, because he felt all people who contributed to the making of the film deserved acknowledgement, no matter how small their role was. To this day, all filmmaking copies this style. Prior to this, it was only the actors and a small core-group of movie staff that were credited.

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I just finished watching the ending again. I initially thought the ending was abrupt. But the ending was fine, with Saunders screaming in jubilation. And than seeing the president having a huge smile with his hands behind his head leaning on the chair and seeing all the commotion going on.

Saying all that, maybe they could of thrown 30 more seconds or a minute at most to show what happened next. But it's really a minor issue to perhaps a perfect movie.