They're opposites - and the two films could easily switch endings.
I have to say that I like this ending even more than Roman Holiday - it is one of my favorite endings of all movies I've ever seen. (So is Odd Man Out).
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shareRoman Holiday has the wistful, bittersweet ending of unrequited love. Not very satisfying.
Love in the Afternoon satisfies the young woman's yearning. The dashing, older lover capitulates and surrenders his heart. What's not to love about that? It's the basis of all chic lit-turned chic-flick, from Jane Austen to paperback bodice-rippers.
jdbna says > Roman Holiday has the wistful, bittersweet ending of unrequited love.Unrequited love? They felt the same way about each other but the situations made it impossible for them to pursue a relationship with each other.
The ending of Roman Holiday is one of the most special and unique I've ever seen in a romance. It doesn't give the audience what it obviously wants, but instead retains a bit of maturity and honesty. The gift of the pictures is a knockout, maximum full-circle points on those. The entire sequence honors the holiday from the title. She cannot change who she is, and neither can he, but that one special day cannot be taken away from them. To change the rules and let them wed would cheapen that.
The ending of Love in the Afternoon is what I expect from every film that dangles the happy ending in front of the audience. It was less an impossibility that it would go happy, and less impactful for it. It didn't really have anywhere else it could go either, especially considering how long they parade around his obvious gesture of sparing her.
I obviously prefer the first film, but I am a huge RH fan, so perhaps it isn't really fair.
This.
Roman Holiday's ending feels genuine and elicits more complex bittersweet feelings.
In Love in the Afternoon, Audrey Hepburn's radiant charms are dialed up to 11 as she starts to cry and lists all her fake lovers while running alongside the train, but it's very typical Hollywood fare, even if it caps off a bit of an oddball film.
This is a very interesting question. I love both movies. I prefer Peck and Hepburn together. However, the ending in Love in the Afternoon, makes for more casual rewatchability.
The extremely romantic shot of Hepburn literally being swept off her feet and into the train is so perfect. Cooper was surprisingly smooth the way he did that, kissed Hepburn's face, and said her name to her for the first time. It actually somewhat redeemed Cooper in this movie, who seems miscast otherwise.
I love both movies but I think it's an unfair comparison. In Roman Holiday she had a clear choice to make and she chose duty. In this movie, it isn't her choice to make; it's his and in making the choice he's not giving up something huge. He's opting to alter his lifestyle but, in a way, he chose both love and 'duty'. If he loves her he's not going to continue his previous lifestyle.
Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]
Roman Holiday was a far better film, it's ending was touching and I kept hoping that she would choose him . Whereas in this film, the guy is a remorseless womanizing billionaire who didn't even remember her when he met her again. She was better off without him and I was disappointed at the ending.
shareAgreed. I wanted her to kick Cooper to the curb.
share"Roman Holiday" by far!
This movie was charming and fun, but the ending was pathetically weak. Yes, there's a final shot of them together, but you know it had to be followed by a long confession of how she'd lied about everything, and she's really just an unsophisticated girl who was acting on a fangirl crush.
And then he's going to decide that she's crazy, and gently escort her back home and tell her father a bit of what's been going on, and stay the hell away from Paris for a few years.