A cookie cutter happy ending for the uncivilized market.
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Yeah, I was pissed they changed the ending to a predictable happy one.
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Nah. I thought that the protagonists in the original were too unrealisticly passive.
Any parent would claw the face off anyone who was hurting their child. Any husband/father would run a kidnapper down while he got out of a car to take a piss and would rugby tackle someone ordering his wife to strip naked.
I think this remake gave the ”guest” family more believable survival instincts.
I loved that Ant got to beat that a-hole to death at the end, so satisfying!
You might want to look in to the statistics of gun ownership and deaths by an intruder, as many are killed with their own gun. Also, no civilized person should want to lower themselves to an assailant's level.
It is the prevalent delusion of being solely responsible for one's life that separates the US from the enlightened world.
People aren't either black or white! The Danish people were doing nothing wrong in the original. What you are in danger of doing is victim blaming.
Of course, it is nice to have a happy ending. Oh, and when you keep sexualizing words or phrases you'll eventually run out of ways to express yourselves.
“No civilized person would want to lower themselves to their assailants level”……What?
The concept of self-defense and fight or flight…is as old as the universe.
I thought that the protagonists in the original were too unrealistically passive.
Haven't seen this version yet, but I completely agree. I suspect that more passive reaction in the original may have been a commentary that more closely reflected the culture of the victims (that's my theory, anyway). Do that to an American, mess with our kids, and you'll get your ass beat. Having said that, it didn't need to be a happy ending. They very well could have fought back but still lost out in the end, or maybe only one surviving (if that's not what happens-again, I haven't seen it yet). To me that would be a more powerful ending, with only one surviving to exact cathartic retribution while just barely hanging onto life. That's how I'd write it, anyway.
In fact, that's how I'd write the original ending as well. I can't connect with characters who just sit there and let someone kill them, acting like sheep programmed for slaughter. For me it transformed the film into pure allegory that didn't reflect actual reality.
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"They very well could have fought back but still lost out in the end, or maybe only one surviving (if that's not what happens-again, I haven't seen it yet). To me that would be a more powerful ending, with only one surviving to exact cathartic retribution while just barely hanging onto life. That's how I'd write it, anyway."
That would have been a better ending for the remake. You should have been in the room when they were writing this.
I can understand them changing the ending for the masses. But it was kinda rubbish what they did with it. McAvoy got himself all bulked up but is fairly ineffectual.
Was expecting him to be more of a monster when things hit the fan.
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