ending

What do you think about this ending, vs. the one Brando wanted, where the girl gets shot in the final gunplay?
Most people on here seemed to think she should have died, and called the final ending "Hollywood."
However, in Hollywood movie tradition, including up to that time, the predictable thing would have been for her to die, because she had been "bad."
Hollywood typically had to punish women in movies who have extra-marital sex in the story, even if they are sympathetic characters overall.
For that reason, I found it refreshing that they were allowed the possibility of a future reunion, although I would hardly call it a happy ending, knowing how difficult life was probably going to be for her and her mother until she got back with Rio.