Ending is ridiculous


What did the director, writers and Eastwood had in mind while giving this type of ending to a movie. Eastwood's character dies, but the way he dies (by eating poisnous mushrooms) and why he had to die????

Does this movie tries to tell us that if you flirt with many women you will end up in a coffin. Giving us a message about feminism and women power.

Eastwood had realized that something is wrong with mushrooms and he could have simply vomitted it out. It takes time for any poison (in food) to have effect on a body. And eastwood had stated his intention of moving out once he recovers, so why need to kill him.

Come on the guy had already lost one leg and didnt deserve to die. All he did was something natural seeing so many women (and all seem to be interested in him irrespective of age and race). To flirt out is one of the basic instincts of any man and when the women are inviting you. Who can resist a hot girl like Carol?

So as per the movie, next time you annoy a women, get ready for the worst.

I dont want feminists to see me as someone who dont like women. In real I like them, I like them a lot. Come on who doesnt like them? But the ending doesnt justify feminism.

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1.) How would you prefer he'd have died?

2.) I don't think Beguiled even has a message.

3.) The little girl killed him out of revenge.




I am in a blissful state, so don't bug me.

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If they had handed him to army/militia then it would have been a better ending. And there is no reason for him to die. He could have also gone out of there and started a new life.

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Dude, the bottom line is women are *beep*ing dangerous. He was better off getting shot at by Confederates.



I am in a blissful state, so don't bug me.

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This movie is a morality play. He uses all of them against each other the whole movie. Maybe he has a change of heart at the end, but probably it's just another angle. He's a con man, and I don't think he just changed his ways on a dime. His sins are coming back to haunt him. Like Clint himself said in Unforgiven, "Deserve's got nothin to do with it." It's a message to the viewer that you better be careful how you treat people. You never know when you're going to cross the wrong one. The film is not pro-feminism. It just shows one of the possible outcomes to a certain situation. It's not a message to watch out for all women. But he certainly pissed off the wrong one, didn't he.

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It's a terrific ending. Probably Eastwood and Siegel's most well-made film, even if Dirty Harry is the most exciting and most popular.

The irony in the ending is that now McBurney has been "beguiled." There's something very haunting about the image of sweet little Amy picking mushrooms, knowing her intentions.

If you're looking for thematic value, I think you can look at McBurney's underestimation of the situation by attempting to take advantage of the situation.

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I don't think the point was about feminism. If Clint was wrong in flirting with the women, they were wrong in flirting with him too.

It wasn't the women that were right, it was him, the lines he said in his blind rage made a lot of sense, and if you closely notice what he was saying when they carried him into the dining room, you'd know that he wasn't flirting with them only to get some action, he was actually trying to please every one of them and cater to their insecurities. I LOVED when the lady pointed out to his faults and he comes back with, yes, you're right, but I'm not running a school for young women, to me that's the best line a Hollywood movie has ever produced.

The whole point in my opinion is, its not about Clint's character, it was about how one rotten apple can ruin a whole society when she is the leader.

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This movie has no feminist connotations whatsover. This wasn't at all political. Gross misuse of the term. This type of presumption and application of the terminology is ignorant- it comes from the same ignorant people who say all feminists are lesbians and/or all feminists hate men. Or, feminism is about man-hating etc. It's completely wrong and uninformed.

There is no trace of feminism anywhere near this movie.

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I've just seen this for the second time tonight, and I forgot just how good it is, well, in my mind.

See, I think the ending works as it mirrors when he first came to the school, on the stretcher.

I don't see it as feminist all - this is more of a character study about the dangers of sexual repression, manipulation and jealousy.

What I find clever about it is he set out to fool these girls seeing them as 'easy meat' in that they'd be easy to trick, but the twist was he underestimated his targets. He could be a woman and the message would still be that, I reckon. A hidden gem of a film, indeed. Deserves more attention, methinks.

"He who lives by the sword, shall die by the sword".

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The reason they kill him, is because while he's drunk, he has the gun and says things are going to be his way, then he comes back up from the cellar after having read the letters, kills the turtle, etc, and the women want him to leave but are afraid he won't. (Hallie even asks him repeatedly to just leave) After he is sober and comes to supper applogizing, it's too late, the die has been cast.

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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

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...especially when it comes to a little heartbroken 8-year-old who really knows her mushrooms!

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12 replys on a 35 year old movie! Hot damn!
It seems that King-Rishab is not a native English speaker, so I'll just let the word "ridiculous" slide. You were not satisfied that the ending had enough basis in reality? You have not been through a divorce yet, nor really gotten to know any of your female friends.
The ending is devastating, and makes everything you have viewed up to that point resonate. If the women had turned him over to the confederates, or he had merely left, it would have been a forgotten period melodrama, and Clint Eastwood would not have starred in it.
To say, "Where is the feminism?" is the worst kind of cultural bias. You think stories should conform to your world view? Go watch a Ron Howard film, and leave us alone with a '70's masterpiece.
(Sally should not have shot Jason Staebler at the end of "King of Marvin Gardens"! Where is the love?)

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The player got played. Great film.

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Doesn't Amy say that she's 13? Then, he says, "Old enough to kiss." and does, which starts him off on the wrong foot, leading to his destruction.

I find it very interesting that, when he's lying on the ground with Amy nearby, just to the right of his head grows a clump of the mushrooms that will be used to do him in by that beguiled and betrayed girl. He sealed his death sentence when he killed Randolph! (That moment always reminds me of Martin Sheen's pedophile blinding Gordon the hamster with a cigarette then throwing him in the fireplace. Both are such explosive, cringe-inducing moments.) (The shotgun and cockatoo in "Restraint" is a scene that comes close to these.)

I'm watching this right now, the scene in which Amy introduces McB to Randolph, explaining that she loves them both nearly the same "only different".

~~MystMoonstruck~~

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<< He sealed his death sentence when he killed Randolph! ...the scene in which Amy introduces McB to Randolph, explaining that she loves them both nearly the same "only different". >>

#justice4randolph
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...Also, it was too late to turn him over to the Rebs - they were gone and the Yankees were closing in.

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He died for killing the turtle! His manhood was still working the women could have lived with that!

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Did you even watch the film? You really think the movie would have worked out with a happy ending? What would be the point?
You must be joking! Or you must work for a studio because only a Hollywood executive would make such a ridiculous statement.


"Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!"

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You must be joking! Or you must work for a studio because only a Hollywood executive would make such a ridiculous statement.
The OP may, because the studio didn't want him to die either, though Siegel and Eastwood were pushing for it. Perhaps in retribution, the film was never widely promoted and commercially flopped in the domestic market.

It is interesting to see that many of the posters on these boards are commenting on how they came to the movie late and weren't aware of its existence.

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I can't even respond to you because you missed the point by light years. Pure unadulterated jealously can be enough to make people (male and female alike) act in a drastic manner. I am a male and usually am the first person to shoot down any pseudo-feminist speculation, but this movie was not about female empowerment in the slightest. It was about survival, jealously, lust and desire, sexual repression, and most importantly - the female psyche. Great film. If there IS a lesson in the film for men, it's "Don't be a player. It's ikay to lust after young nybile women, but for your own safety, only become romantically invbolved with ONE".

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