How did the ending even make sense? That's a stupid question, because it didn't! How could...oh, never mind. Do you know what I mean?
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Well, I think that was the point. It was a nonsensical, screwball ending to a nonsensical, screwball comedy. That why it was so freakin' awesome!! :-)
shareI agree. It was a hilarious ending to a nearly perfect film. And the fact that Lord X's reappearance had a touch of weirdness made it even more appealing, sort of a nod to Hitchcock. Once again, Billy Wilder ends his films perfectly, this time with Moustache breaking the third wall.
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I've never really understood the ending either! Each time I watch the film, I'm always like: "So...is Nestor the father or what?!" The ending makes me laugh anyway (and I can see why some people think it's freaky!) but it confuses me. Ultimately, I do think it was a joke and Nestor was the father of Irma's baby, seeing as he was clearly dressing up as the Lord. Maybe the joke is that there is actually a Lord who looks like Nestor in disguise? I don't know!
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yah, it pretty much scared the crap out of me that first time.
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Wilder liked screwball endings -- "I'm a man.........well nobody's perfect" in Some lIke it Hot. I liked the movie but found it uneven - a young Lemmon is truly stretched here and Irma is so street wise and yet too dim in parts. Still enjoyable, but have never watched it again as I have all of Lemmon's movies.
shareThe ending was pretty stupid, but I suppose taken in context with the era we're just supposed to think of it as screwball silly, and not think too much into it. Different times.
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That was the one problem with this movie. There was no establisted consistent tone. A bit of drama, a bit of comedy, and a ridiculous turn in the plot. It was trying to find itself. It didn't start off as a screwball comedy but it kinda found its way there at the end. But maybe that had a lot to do with adapting the source material from a French musical. It isn't anything like The Apartment. It was weird but it was funny and what more can you ask for? :)
share What uneased me a little was when Lord X was going down in the elevator from the street to the basement of the bar. There was something about it that creeped me out, I think it was the characters face and eyes and the whole slightly sinister feeling about it.
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It was screwball comedy, but I believe Wilder succeeded in giving it a decidedly quaint flavor. I interpreted it as sort of a Parisian viewpoint which of course would be quite different from our general viewpoint.
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Wilder loved unexpected endings -- as in some like it hot --"nobody's perfect" remember?
shareAs I said in another post, there was a real Lord X who must have had sex with Irma hence the baby (remember she says she knew when she conceived). Lemmon's Lord X never had sex with Irma -- and so the final words "that's another story!".
shareLemmons Lord X did have sex with her, the night when Lemmons lord X stays the night, his then getting dressed in her bathroom.
The ending was a joke, from moustache he had been a lawyer and delivered babies all sorts of jobs hence his line that's another story, which he says a few times to Nestor. When he helped Lemmon dress up as lord X he probably based his look on an actual lookalike.