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How Did It End?!?

posted 9 years ago by auntijoan1
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I fell asleep, waking up just at the fade-out. What made Biff realize that Amy was his true love?

[–] wmorrow59 9 years ago

Virginia (Fay Wray) shows up in his office, looking blowsy and overly made-up, and acting like Mae West: flirty in a vulgar way. Biff is stunned, and when he realizes how she turned out, he finally, fully appreciates Amy.

Incidentally, I was watching this on TCM with my wife, and we both agreed it would have been pretty funny if Mae West had actually played the middle-aged Virginia in a cameo! It looked like Fay Wray had her in mind, at any rate.

[–] justbobkc 9 years ago

Let me add that Biff was in the process of actually killing Hugo via Nitrous oxide poisoning and oxygen deprivation (turned off the O2 feed) when Fay Wray showed up and said "why don't you put him out of his misery?"

Seeing her made him wake-up and turn the O2 back on.

Could men as dumb as Biff (as he acted) back in the 1910's ACTUALLY become D.D.S. Dentists - and even with a felony conviction? Evidently so - as that is the way the play was written in 1933 - or maybe that was part of the "comedy" - though I saw nothing very humorous in the whole movie.

[–] mdonln 9 years ago

justbobkc says > I saw nothing very humorous in the whole movie.

There were a lot of humorous parts in this movie; especially in the beginning when Biff and Hugo go to meet Amy and Virginia. The awkwardness was convincing.

Seeing her made him wake-up and turn the O2 back on.

This is the part of the movie I really didn't like. All these years later, Biff still wanted to kill Hugo and was pretty close to doing it; not over the arrest or how Biff had treated him. It was over Virginia.

When Biff came home from prison he did start to appreciate Amy a little more than he had before but he was still carrying a torch for Virginia and still bitter she was with Hugo so he couldn't possibly have given her his love or the respect she deserved. It's unfortunate he had to see what became of Virginia before he finally realized how lucky he was to have gotten the 'wrong' girl.

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