Please Help
My DVD was cracked, and I was not able to see the last half hour. Would somebody please help me out by telling me what happens in the end? I would be incredibly appreciative. Thanks!
shareBarry invites Kent, a young slacker who loves Barry's show, into the studio, where Barry realizes that the man in not only idiotic, but is also potentially dangerous. After an on-air profane tirade against a caller, Kent is thrown out of the studio.
In an attempt to try to calm him down, his ex-wife, who is visiting Barry in the studio, calls him on the phone under the name of "Cheryl Ann." "Cheryl Ann" tells Barry about her lonely and loveless marriage, and while she had a good reason to leave her ex husband, (Barry) she still loves him very much.
Barry, realizing that this is a ruse, berates his wife on the air. "What do you want me to say? Leave your husband and come back to your ex? Your ex doesn't want you anymore. I don't know what to tell you. You blew it, babe! Women like you are never satisfied! So why don't you go home to Captain America over there, buy yourself a heavy duty vibrator and knock yourself out! We reap what we sow......you understand me...Cheryl Ann?!"
At this point, she picks up her purse and walks out of the studio, never to return.
Barry then launches into a tirade of his own against his listeners, putting them down as nothing but sexually depraved, intellectually vacant, fools! "Who the hell are you anyway, you, you audience?! NEXT WEEK, millions of people are going to be tuning in, and you have nothing to talk about!! You're pathetic....I despise each and every one of you...."
Well, after the show ends, he and his girlfriend walk to the top of the parking garage to get their cars, and he suggests that maybe it's time to re-evauluate their relationship. As she leaves in her car, a man walks up to Barry and asks for his autograph....then pulls a gun and fires into Barry's chest, killing him.
As the credits roll, we are treated to a montage of Barry's listeners giving their opinions about Barry's death.
And that's it. Hope this helps!
Yeah. The only thing I didn't like about this movie (which, don't get me wrong, was extremely powerful and moved me more than a lot of movies do), was the fact that his death, even though it was expected, was so dreaded. But after he was killed, they turned it comical with the ending collage of people talking about his death. Especially Stu, who has known him forever and should've been effected, but instead said "he had a little dick." I think that they could've ended it with a powerful depiction of racism and prejudice, and the true painfully dangerousness of idiocy of humanity, but instead they made it light.
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It's the fact that this movie was about entertainment. The play shows this moreso because it's strictly dialogue and there is no shooting in the end. But anyway, it was about what they could do to get listeners, nothing on the radio show had any meaning to it either than ratings. Barry Champlain is a voice, not a person to the world and death is entertainment. It's sad I know but that's how we percieved this play in class. Also, we find out that Kent is the new radio host. Another way to show that we as humans just want to be entertained, shocked.. the movie is very well done but I suggest reading the play. It's not that long but there's a lot to it.
I'm a big Eric Bogosian fan.
I had the opportunity to be in this play. It is a WONDERFUL script. Very moving and profound in places. I was about 7 different callers, both male and female. My favorite caller to play was June (the one about the doggies). I gave her a hilarious nasal voice and a Brooklyn accent. In the play, Barry doesn't die, he just goes home. And Linda's monologue is my favorite monologue to perform at auditions. Spectacular play when it is well done.
shareI think that Kent was refering to himself as the new toast master in general -- as one of the many callers commenting about Barry's death. I seriously doubt the producers gave the drugged-out, crazy-eyed kid that cushy job as radio host. Dan (Alec Baldwin) seemed pretty stemmed at the kid for crying out "...and slit your *beep* wrists, Pinhead!" to a caller. Highly doubtful this loose canon would get employed.
I also think the tone of the various callers over the end credits was perfect. These callers and friends of Barry's are responding after just getting the news (within a day). The "little dick" reference by Stu was meant out of affection and reflects his own odd way of looking at things. There's an unmistakable sadness under these lines that makes this moment genuine. I believe this is what a friend like Stu would say at Barry's eulogy if he were called up there.
As much as I too hate the idea of Kent having a talk show, this was completely foreshadowed. Kent, sitting there as a 'special guest' on Barry's show, asserting himself with a caller... exactly like Barry when he was still selling suits.
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