how does he die
i caught this late late when i should have been sleeping, i saw the whole movie until the end where i fell asleep for about 15 minutes waking up right as madam wu was kneeling over andre's body, how does he die?
shareWhen the Japanese invade the town, he goes to find Madame Wu, who left her husband to stay in the town. She and some other women try to hide from the soldiers, but one sees them and tries to get to them. To protect the women, he clubs the soldier, but is spotted by the others. They chase him down and shooot him.
shareApparently thats not how it happened in the book - do you know how it happened in that? In the film I thought his death was a bit anticlimactic, and just a bit weak actually.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Great spoiler title of your thread!
It is on here tonight and was gonna watch so thought I'd check it out some here...now I know he dies at the end!
I just finished the book and there is NOTHING in it about Madame Wu hiding from Japanese soldiers!! My god! I haven't seen the movie, but now I realize it has little to do with the book. Andre attempts to defend a money-lender who is being beaten by members of the "Green Band", and they kill him instead. If, as I suspect, the movie is portrayed as a love story between Andre and Madame Wu, I have to inform you that the "love" they share is completely postmortem- that is, after Andre's death.
There must be hundreds of thousands of clever and original script writers out there...why do movie makers feel compelled to film books??
Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales?
I am reading the book now (didn't even know there was a film). Brother Andre leaves the Wu family home after lessons and the Green Band (ruffians, kind of like young mobster/criminal gang) are interrupted by Brother Andre whilst robbing a store and they split his skull open. A street person he has been kind to in the past brings him home with some other men, where Brother Andre bleeds to death on his own bed with his orphans nearby, but not before someone sends for Madame Wu. His dying words are, I think, Feed my Orphans or something like that. She takes the orphans into the Wu family home. The book is VERY GOOD and I think has a lot that the movie does not. And, the relationships are not sensationalised at all. You understand her character, and the internal workings of all the sons and their wives. It's a touching, complicated novel and i am about 10 pages from the end now.
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