I thought Nancy should have just turned her back on him and gone back down the stairs to her father.
I understand that this was to leave it open for a sequel, but the sequel could still have been made even with the ending I mentioned
Anyway, I like the movie until that last bit.
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I preferred that ending as well.
I guess studios don't like slasher/horror movies not ending on a bang.
"I don't know, this could break my heart or save me. Nothings real till you let go completely."
I don't think anybody likes the ending.
It wasn't the one Wes Craven wanted.
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Um, someone sent me the Wes Craven script. It ends the same except for the mother bit.
shareIt seemed to me that the "happy ending" was just a dream. I think it would be normal for Nancy to experience nightmares about what happened...normal nightmares, not ones with a real Freddy. In reality, her mom is dead and she defeated Kruger. They moved. Even the sequel runs with this idea. That's my two cents, anyhow.
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I think its because its so confusing. I think the happy ending makes more sense
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I pretend the movie ends with Nancy turns her back on Freddy. The real ending ends up making everything that came before it confusing as hell.
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I like the ending. Also Wes Craven's ending sucks. His ending was that the whole movie was just a bad dream and Freddy wasn't real. That's too much of a cop out for a villain like Freddy. Imagine any other horror movie from the time doing that. Like if Alice just woke up at the end of Friday the 13th and finds that everyone in the camp is alive. It'd be stupid. Or if Halloween just ended with Laurie waking up and all her friends are alive.
Green Goblin is great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1L4ZuaVvaw
I'm not bothered by it one bit.I think Robert Endlund has the best interruption of the ending saying that it was a never ending loop to the point we first met Nancy,Tina & Glenn when the first time the girls we're sining the infamous song while jump roping.
shareThat seems overly-complicated. To me, Nancy was just having a bad dream about what she had been through. Just a normal nightmare, not a real Freddy-induced nightmare. Everything about the scene is dream-like, including the brightness which was like a dream, everyone being alive like a dream, and then things going crazy like a dream, complete with something as silly as a Kruger-mobile! Nancy was just having a normal nightmare after having gone through hell.
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and then things going crazy like a dream, complete with something as silly as a Kruger-mobile!
Though the fact that we never see her wake up brings that into question. In a Nightmare on Elm Street, "it's just a dream" doesn't bring quite the same relief. It could be that she didn't defeat him and he pulled her into a new nightmare, first tricking her into thinking all her friends and mother are alive again only to pull the rug out from under her with the Freddy-mobile.
shareI think Robert Endlund has the best interruption of the ending saying that it was a never ending loop to the point we first met Nancy,Tina & Glenn when the first time the girls we're sining the infamous song while jump roping.
As mentioned Craven's original ending was that the whole film had been a dream. That's why the internal logic of the story breaks down as it goes along, Freddy can come into the real world etc, Craven's endin was to tell the audience that the film was A nightmare on Elm Street.
Craven saw it is a psychological horror, messing with people's carnal fears, their nightmares coming to life. It's the tapping into dreams and their mystery that Craven is banking on selling the film. He envisaged one movie, that turns out to be the creation of a dreaming teenager, not a series. I still think it would have worked.
My understanding of Part 3 was that Craven's idea was it to be a similar meta horror film to New Nightmare. He really didn't think there was mileage in continuing in the direction the series took.
As mentioned Craven's original ending was that the whole film had been a dream. That's why the internal logic of the story breaks down as it goes along, Freddy can come into the real world etc, Craven's endin was to tell the audience that the film was A nightmare on Elm Street.
Craven saw it is a psychological horror, messing with people's carnal fears, their nightmares coming to life.
It's the tapping into dreams and their mystery that Craven is banking on selling the film. He envisaged one movie, that turns out to be the creation of a dreaming teenager, not a series. I still think it would have worked.
For once I will disagree. I think it would have been fine if she woke up and it was a dream The movie was still scary and you still cared for her. I mean it would have been a cop out but the movies ending now makes no sense and you know this better than most, no matter which way you try to spin it.
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I think it would have been fine if she woke up and it was a dream The movie was still scary and you still cared for her.
I mean it would have been a cop out but the movies ending now makes no sense and you know this better than most, no matter which way you try to spin it.
Yes but you are watching a movie to be scared correct? We already know its not real but the movie still is amazing even if it was all a dream, but as I acknowledged it would have been a cop out. But for ME, it would not have changed the impact of the movie on me one bit. You are different and that's fine.
I agree, NONE of the endings make any sense. Do you not remember me praising you and linking your theory of the end on here? You had the best explanation Ive ever seen but even it had flaws. I never said the theatrical ending was worse than Cravens ending. I was just saying I WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE WITH IT because the ending we have now is the only flaw in this horror masterpiece.
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Yes but you are watching a movie to be scared correct?
You had the best explanation Ive ever seen but even it had flaws.
Look, even though I understand what you are saying, I just simply disagree. Lets agree to disagree.
IF I remember correctly you are the one that had the whole web page that tried to make sense of the endings. But even your best one opened up other questions if I am thinking correctly. Maybe I will have to check it out again. Like I said, it was the best explanation I have ever seen and even linked your page on here.
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What exactly is it that you disagree with? I understand that you like the original ending better, o.k. But how exactly do you disagree with the following statement?
If the whole movie is a dream, talking about certain aspects of the contents is a waste of time.
In any regular movie, you can talk about various aspects:
Why did Luke think that killing the Emperor, the most evil person in the universe, would turn him to the dark side? Why was the dead girl still in Mrs. Voorhees' truck by the end of the film? How did Bruce Wayne get from the Lazarus Pit back to Gotham City with no papers and no money?"
If the whole movie is all just a dream, literally every question that you might have can be answered with: "It didn't really happen, it was just part of her dream. All of the characters' actions were just made up in her head." Which makes a discussion about the plot a waste of time.
About your other statement: If you think my essay opens up another question, just tell me what exactly you mean.
Again, I never said which ending I preferred, they all had problems. I am reading your essay again right now. Maybe you did have it all covered. Again I had such respect for it I linked it on here and used it as my official view of the end.
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You were right, there are no real flaws. Again, Ive always found your theory to be the best on the subject and linked it on this board before they deleted all the old threads.
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I don't have a problem with it. I actually think it's a nice cheery on the chocolate milkshake this film is.
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