My satellite TV messed up right at the end of this amazing film, so I am not sure I saw the true ending. I saw the train blow up, and then the clock started chiming. Right then, my screen went poof! What, if anything, did I miss? (not to mention anything Robert Osborne said, of course!)
Reality is a crutch for people who can't face up to science fiction.
Also... Milos' hat rolled back down the tracks, where Masa found it; and a few shots of Hubicka laughing (victoriously, I assume).
He who is tired of "Weird Al"... is tired of life.
"Does he die?"
Well, let's see....he was shot and fell on top of an ammunition train that a few minutes later exploded, and then his hat came rolling with the wind...
Yeah, I'd say he's dead.
Also, Spiderman is really Peter Parker, and in the Sixth Sense, Bruce Willis' characted was really dead.
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Yeah, well...that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Don't be a jerk Jdylan. How many shows have we all seen where it looked like the protagist dies, only to find that he's still alive 2 minutes later? If you miss the ending of a film, you might imagine all sorts of plausible or implausible endings.
The original ending had him just getting stunned by a ricochet, then running triumphantly back into the station after the explosion having jumped off the train in the nick of time. But they decided it was too happy an ending and they killed him off.
See how easy that was?
It was an ironic ending and struck me as such when I saw it at the Brattle theater in Cambridge, MA in 1966. Milos commits the sabotage by simply dropping the explosive from the overhang but is machine-gunned from the train below by what would be a ball-turret gunner in an airplane but is probably called a caboose-gunner on a train. He didn't "closely watch (out)" and paid the piper for his carelessness. If it had been me, I would have dropped down on the platform out of sight. I allus' empathize with the victim but also, as a coward, I think of ways to get out of an imbroglio without losing my life when watching protagonists die the death in cinema...
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