Just caught this movie on TNT. I've heard there is an alternate ending on the DVD. Anybody know what happens?
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Costner ends up living...Ashton holds onto him until they can get to shore, just like Costner did with that other guy that screwed up his shoulder.
shareYes, Shifty. I watched the DVD yesterday and I also watched the alternate ending. In the alternate version, Costner's character just BARELY makes it into the helicopter with Jake and they fly off, presumably happily ever after.
Personally, I like that ending better because I'm not sure the story as it stands justifies killing off Master Chief Randall. To kill off your main character, I believe you have to ensure that it feels like a redeeming action, something that "completes" the character rather than, in this case, just continues the story line that makes Ben a selfless guy, highly motivated to save others. In other words, I want to feel that it's "sad -- but ultimately, right".
I respectfully disagree. If Senior Chief Randall had survived, after resigning from the Coast Guard and divorcing his wife, what kind of life would he have led?
We would like to think that the human spirit triumphs and that Costner will get back together with his wife and retire happily, spending the rest of his days cooking grilled salmon dinners for his wife that he had just caught that day. However it is also likely that his character would have sunk into depression, possibly alcoholism, as he tries to redefine his own self-worth.
Perhaps we didn't like the ending, but it might have been the only ending for him.
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I'm not sure that the original ending didn't redeem Master Chief Randall. After all, don't forget the circumstances under which he became an instructor at A-School: a traumatic event, he lost his team, and so on. I think he felt like he had to go back into the field to redeem himself, or at least, that the circumstances (the cloud) under which he came to A-School would continue to hang over him until he did.
shareIf Randall lived, who would be the Guardian?
His entire life was saving people. It cost him his marriage and it cost him his life. Sacrificing himself was his redeeming action.
That's the point of the film.
Life is not a Disney movie where everyone lives happily ever after.
If Randall lived, who would be the Guardian?
His entire life was saving people. It cost him his marriage and it cost him his life. Sacrificing himself was his redeeming action.
That's the point of the film.
Life is not a Disney movie where everyone lives happily ever after.
The alternate ending sucked. It would have ruined the movie if released that way.
shareIt was about the Coast Guard and sadly, in reality, not ecveryone can make it. Costner's characted let Kutcher's character, a younger man, live knowing that he would do the most good in saving lives in the future.
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Well that wouldn't have really affected me in a different way but thanks for the answers. :)
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