something wild's ending

I would have liked the ending more had they not ended up together. It seemed like way too "Hollywood" an ending for such an off beat movie. But Sister Carol singing during the closing credits was genius. Probably my favorite closing credit sequence of any film.

I liked gothic LuLu better. The ending was too predictable & conforming. I liked Sister Carol singing at the end.

Loved the ending.

However different they are... they fit together. He needs her as much as she needs him. So it was perfect.

People often harp on a "hollywood" ending... but they assume because life is never filled with happy endings and that the guy never gets the girl.

But the fact is, in life there are just as many happy endings as unhappy ones.

"Hollywood Ending" is more to the fact that almost every single Hollywood film has a happy ending instead of tackling a tougher one.

But an interesting, off topic, note on so called "Hollywood Endings". In real life, the hero rarely dies... they do die... but usually from something boring such as old age or illness :p

Just find it humerous when people saying films in which the hero dies at the end are more realistic. Which is *beep* Yes, heroes die... but as history has shown... they mostly live.

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I would've changed the ending from the time Ray say you Charlie "No, you're really gonna regret this."

Charlie would've replied, "I'm counting on it..." then give Ray his home address with the warning 'You might want to do a smart thing and walk away but I'm pretty sure you won't..."

When Audrey confronts him down the road, he replies cooly "It's not something I can explain in the middle of Virginia.. I'll hafta show you..."

Scene where Ray is 'rescued' by the gift shop clerk is left intact but when he's boosting a car he utters "I'm counting on it?" but continues on his way.

Cut to Charlie's house. Two kids are planted in front of TV set mindlessly taking in the morning cartoons as Ray approaches the partially open patio door. He makes with friendly small talk as he sneaks in but gets no response. He goes to touch one of the kids and the kid flops over showing ligature marks on the throat. Same with other kid.

Audrey walks in acting like an demented June Cleaver, admonishes Ray for disturbing the 'little ones' and cheerfully calls out to Charlie saying 'we have a visitor'

Enter Charlie Driggs who reveals that when he'd told people that his wife had run out on him and taken the kids that he "wasn't telling a lie but wasn't exactly telling the truth". Seems she'd killed the kids and taken her own life and he was so distraught that he'd hid the bodies in the freezer and tried to carry on as if nothing had happened. Now thanks to Ray stupidly showing up at the house like he did, he can frame him for their deaths and make a new start with his life...

Before Ray can do anything the police arrive to haul him off to jail. Protesting his innocence, he breaks free but is shot dead by Audrey as she was surrendering Ray's gun. Charlie and Audrey are separated to give their testimony.

Cut to where Charlie is leaving his job and continue with movie ending as written.

Nothing was wrong with it, except Ray's final attack and (yes, spoilers) death at the house was a bit too brutal to be consistent with the rest of the movie. Yeah, he was a maniac and brutal at the gas station, but it was still way too over the top and looked like something out a horror movie or Fatal Attraction, considering the humorous and good-natured mood of the vast majority of the rest of the film. Jmo.

It had to have the Hollywood ending. Audiences would have given thumbs down to a realistic ending. I've had flings with women like Lulu/Audrey. They don't reform, settle down, and love you, like Audrey is fixed to do in the end. No, they make you suffer through their tantrums and crazy behavior, they steal your stuff and spend it on drugs, they leave with your money in the middle of the night with their drug-addled biker ex-boyfriend. They might even give you an STI or get you arrested. If Lulu hits on you in real life, run, don't walk. She's bad news.