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A better ending (spoilers)

posted 4 years ago by fzane (1105)
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Christopher Walken's character is hiding in the hills, and uses a sniper rifle to eliminate them all.

[–] elcamino (15540) 4 years ago

William Dafoe

[–] MavKilledGoose (859) 3 years ago

Walken's character was done killing.

Creasy could've shoved a timed charger up his butt to take out the mooks. If it were in the script, I don't think Washington would have approved. Apart from being "gay," the politics at the time could not valorize a hero being a suicide bomber.

[–] wiiztec (258) 3 years ago

Uh gay? are you getting Denzel confused with his character from Philidelphia?

[–] Chester (223) 2 years ago

His character was straight (and homophobic) in Philadelphia.

[–] wiiztec (258) 2 years ago

That's what I was saying, goose up there was saying denzel would object to shoving a bomb up his ass because it would be gay

[–] Chester (223) 2 years ago

Creasy could've shoved a timed charger up his butt to take out the mooks.

That’s exactly what happens in the alternate ending.

[–] Lord Rake (4454) 2 years ago

Giving the Mexicans a taste of their own medicine.

[–] Chester (223) 2 years ago

If cramming your anus with C4 and blowing yourself up, taking out a crime lord, is giving the Mexicans a taste of their own medicine then… yes.

[–] Lord Rake (4454) 2 years ago

You don't always take out a crime lord but when eating authentic Mexican food there will be an anal explosion.

[–] Chester (223) 2 years ago

Granted.

[–] MavKilledGoose (859) 2 years ago

Wow. Turns out it's been on Yotuube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5RQWlXoD_s

It looks like Washington did approve because they at least shot it. And he didn't just take out the mooks.

[–] Chester (223) 2 years ago

Yep, he kills them with his asshole.

I think the ending they went with was better - more serious and sombre in line with the character‘s tragic journey and tone of the film.

The good news? Denzel will be reuniting with Dakota Fanning in The Equalizer 3!

[–] MavKilledGoose (859) 2 years ago

Yep, he kills them with his asshole.

:)

I'm not a fan of this movie in general, but from what I recall, I also prefer the original ending. People in the comments on the Youtube video are praising this alternative ending. I remember a writer saying there are three ways to end a story: too soon, on time, and too late. Out of the three, the best is usually too soon.

There is a payoff for the assblast, and you usually want a protagonist to kill the big bad, but the sacrifice is in some ways purer the way they left it. After all, they shot the final sequence, but left it out, probably for reasons of pacing. It often happens. American Beauty had a whole final act where the kids are tried in court for killing Spacey.