Does Sandy Dennis die in this film?
Does she die I have seen it but not the ending.
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Yes, she definitely dies -- it is depicted as suicide by tree. Her male rival (Keir Dullea) is chopping down the tree, and Sandy Dennis places herself directly where it will fall, the implication being that she is willing her own death at the hands of the fox (Dullea) who has raided her private world. He warns her to move, but she refuses, and he keeps chopping.
share(this thread needs a Spoiler warning ) has anyone read the book? i wonder if it ended in just the same way -- in the film, Dullea clearly warns her it may fall that way and asks her to move, removing any doubt that it was intentional on his part. while this IS a historical piece re: lesbians in film, I am glad that today we can write/show films where at least 1 homosexual character need not be sacrificed.
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in the interest of promoting the novel idea that actors are not the characters they play, sandy dennis does not die in this film (literally or figuratively)...jill does :-)
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Thank you, Dreamon-10 !
So few people, especially reviewers, make that distinction clear. It's "Bruce Willis does this" and "Humphrey Bogart" said that ... when the truth is that the actors say and do what is in the screenplay (written by somebody else) and the actors are saying it and doing it in the character of the story, not on their own behalf.
Humphrey Bogart didn't say "Play it, Sam" -- Rick Blaine did.
I guess the best way to deal with the problem that readers don't remember the characters' names but do remember the actors is to say:
"Humphrey Bogart's character," "Sandy Dennis' character," etc.
Indeed. Sadly, Sandy Dennis died in real life, which was a much greater tragedy than this film, in which her character appeared dead long before and ax, gravity and the law of physics took their course.
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