last lines
would someone tell me what were the last lines of the movie I missed them completely
shareIsn't it Yasmine answering to Cox's mariage proposal: 'I shall ask Brenda' or something? I think that's what it is.
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Jasmine says, "I'll talk it over with Brenda." and then the film cuts to the closing credits.
shareThanx for that. The tape I watched cut out on that line.
A plain old "yes," as we expected, since it was all she had said in answer to Rudi's every question for the past three minutes, would have been too "Hollywood." The filmmakers built us up with an expectation, the dashed it at the last minute -- great! Of course, ten minutes after the end of the movie, Brenda said "Girl, you go marry that man!" And everyone lived happily ever after, so why do we need to see it in the movie, if we already know it? This is the difference between a European film and an American one: not everything is served up on a silver platter. If it had been a traditional Hollywood film, it would have ended with a big double wedding in the cafe, with Rudi and Jasmin marrying, and Sal and Brenda renewing their vows. In a movie in the European tradition, the audience is part of the experience, rendering an interpretation. So the ending is used, rather than simply to deliver a happy ending, to point up the bond that developed between Jasmin and Brenda.
-EdM.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Hi edmuse,
if you had watched the DVD, you'd know that there is also another reason for this last line. The film is about female friendship, remember how it disposes of the husbands in the beginning? It's the strong bond of the women which is crucial for bringing about the change to the better, and the last line emphasizes this aspect of the fílm.
Btw the sentence was not in the original script, it was Marianne Sägebrecht who came up with this ending for which Percy Adlon couldn't find a satisfying solution (iirc).
Regards, Rosabel
When I saw the movie in the theater, it ended with a closeup of a beautiful desert daisy, BAILEYA pleniradiata. I just watched it on DVD, and the flower has been cut.
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