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Please explain ending ?

posted 2 years ago by Firebreather45 (3)
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I didn’t get the last 10 minutes or so of the movie, so the sun was in the guy’s shot with the electric free camera ? Why did he think goin up on the hill would be any better if he was facing the same direction ? And then the guy on the horse is baiting the alien but why ? And then the sister goes over to the ranch and finally gets a picture of the alien but I thought they already got one ? Idk, I just didn’t get it for some reason and if I did then why ? Why make it so complicated ? I don’t have anything against this movie, was enjoying it up until the end sequence but I just did not get how that played out. Can anybody explain that in a simple way please ? Thanks

[–] mikethemartian (6710) 2 years ago

They were baiting it to film it. I’m not sure what went wrong with the IMAX camera they were using initially and how they lost that footage. Then the filmmaker grabbed his hand cranked film camera I thought to get the shot but then it seemed like he was just committing suicide so I’m not sure.

[–] ExTechOp (2770) 2 years ago

Antlers was an obsessive filmmaker, willing to risk his life or even commit suicide if it meant getting just the right shot. He thought that the setting sun would give him perfect lighting, “magic” was his term.

So he climbed the hill both to tempt Jean Jacket back out into the open and to get a clear shot.

OJ was baiting Jean Jacket with the reflectors on the back of his head. He knew it was an animal that went after you for looking at it, so he deliberately altered his hoodie to tempt it into chasing him.

He's doing all this to lead Jean Jacket into Antlers's field of view to get it all on film.

Emerald used the Winkin’ Well camera because she knew it was analog, like Antlers's movie camera. She wasn't sure whether Antlers actually got any footage (and neither are we by the movie's end), so she's making the only play she's got left to get that "Oprah shot."

Emerald and OJ had also, by that time, already figured out that Jean Jacket didn't like ropes and flags, so she released the helium balloon as the ultimate "get Jean Jacket sick" ploy.

I doubt she had any idea it'd actually kill Jean Jacket, but so much the better; it can't kill anyone else, and she now has the only photograph of Jean Jacket in "fully expanded" mode.

[–] Firebreather45 (3) 2 years ago

Thank you, that really helped ! If you lived near me I’d buy you coffee and a lunch..thanks again!

[–] Thaistickers (1502) 2 years ago

"Jean Jacket didn't like ropes and flags,"
I sure did miss that part of the film. So the baloon was still attached to its ropes?
Accepting all that, it just seems absurd that ropes would make it explode. Also, why do they call it Jean Jackets? Another obscure line in the film that I missed?

[–] ExTechOp (2770) 2 years ago

OJ named the flying predator (I'm still not sure it's an alien) "Jean Jacket," which was the name of a horse they'd never been able to fully tame.

Jean Jacket ate a fake horse along with an attached rope with flags on it. The fake horse got stuck in its throat until it was forced to spit it out. OJ figured Jean Jacket, being a dumb animal, would blame the flags, not the plastic horse (because it had eaten real horses before).

That's how OJ was able to scare Jean Jacket off by dragging a parachute trailing flags.

Jupe's balloon had ropes but no flags. Remember, Jean Jacket is a dumb animal. It's afraid of flags, not ropes.

And no, the ropes didn't make it explode. It exploded because it ate Jupe's balloon. The balloon exploded, blowing a hole in Jean Jacket. This was a very deliberate reference to the ending of "Jaws."

EDIT: Just watched it again, I was wrong. Jupe’s balloon DID have flags on its ropes, but Jean Jacket attacked it anyway because, the way I see it, Jean Jacket saw the balloon as another predator moving in on Jean Jacket’s hunting grounds. Jean Jacket made a show of getting big, like it did with OJ, and when that didn’t scare off the balloon, Jean Jacket attacked and ate the balloon.

Just like the shark kept chewing on that scuba tank until Brody blew up the tank and the shark’s whole face with it.

[–] Thaistickers (1502) 2 years ago

I know nothing of Jaws or how this might relate to it, I just found this film to be lacking in believability

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21457) 2 years ago

Whoa, whoa there partner! There’s the problem right there. If you’ve somehow missed Jaws, then I highly recommend you watch it ASAP.