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Who else was tricked by this moment? (SPOILERS)

posted 15 years ago by Awakening124
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At the very end when Adrian is on the beach and she turns and her face falls into shock and happiness, I thought that Paul was somehow alive until they showed the horses, making their appearance really disappointing and anticlimactic. Nevertheless, I also think that's where the movie should have ended. We didn't need to see Adrian blow a kiss to the ocean from the dock, and the running horses would've been a perfect ending visual.
Was anyone else duped, or am I alone? =P

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[–] texaschainsawkilla 15 years ago

I had hoped he was still alive because during all the prelude stuff nobody ever actually said he was dead. He could have disappered into the storm and nobody knew what happened. Its too bad that they ended it on a downer because had he lived and made it to be with his soul mate (if thats what you call it) the film would have been a charmer with some replay value.

[–] LazyStarr 15 years ago

I wasn't really tricked by this. I knew she was going to see the horses during some point near the end of the movie. Pretty much due to one of the lines something like, "One day you're going to see the horses."
Basically, I knew since she was on the beach, and her expression was uplifted, it had to be the horses.
And I agree that it would have made for a much better ending, but it also would've seemed cut off too early, somehow. I don't know. I re-examine this movie in my mind every time I think about it.

[–] loredanaghidarcea 15 years ago

I knew she was going to see the horses. It just seemed like the kind of thing they would do at the end and I think I would have liked the movie to end there as well, with just the horses running and her in the background. It would have been impressive and sort of a last moment shared between the two.

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[–] WWu777 15 years ago

I agree. I was tricked too.

But I also think it was a bad idea to have Paul die at the end. This should have been a romantic movie, not a tragic one. That was turning the tide of the movie too quickly. Also unnecessary.

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[–] javajuly 15 years ago

But I also think it was a bad idea to have Paul die at the end. This should have been a romantic movie, not a tragic one. That was turning the tide of the movie too quickly. Also unnecessary.

Completely agree here. I didn't see his death coming despite his heading down
to Ecuador, and also, I guess I went into this one expecting a romantic ending.
Maybe I've seen too many Richard Gere movies end happily so that this was more of a disappointment, who knows?! It seemed pointless to me that they each found
their soulmate only to lose them, despite the point of the movie making each a
better person in the end.

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[–] mrsbookbabe 15 years ago

I think it is unrealistic to believe that a person can find their "soulmate" and know that is what that person is in one weekend. They had a weekend of sex and being alone, but "soulmate"? I think not!

[–] blondepittbull 15 years ago

I agree but sort of admired the film makers for the ending which was not conventional by any means and rather bold for a movie like this.

[–] Mojster 15 years ago

I wasn't tricked. The plot is so predicatble that from the moment that they tell you he is dead, I was waiting that she will go to the beach and see the horses because it was too obvious wheh he was saying to her that one day, she will see the horses.

[–] waltdisneypixar 15 years ago

i hated the film the moment he died!!!!

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[–] parisvaughn87 15 years ago

I agree. Before he died, I loved the movie. At the moment he died, I hated the movie. I don't want to see a movie with a sad ending! That's too 'real life'. The reason I watch these kinds of movies to get away from 'real life'...

[–] sgtmian 15 years ago

i did so too, at first, but i think i would've been disappointed if it had been him. i'm glad it ended the way it ended, because it made it more meaningful for me. and anyway, i think the horses were paul saying "hey", so in a sense, he was there.

[–] Jack2979 15 years ago

Maybe it would ruin the movie for most, but I was hoping that Paul's death was a mistake. Sometimes you want to see a romantic movie that ends on a happy note.

On another note, Diane and Richard are wonderful together in movies. Great chemistry!

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[–] Deanshore 13 years ago

I agree with many of the above posts. This was a very good movie that would have been infinitely better had he survived and shown up at the beach at the end.

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[–] YammaD 15 years ago

Of course we were all meant to think, for an instant, that Paul was alive. I too think the movie should have ended there. It would have been so nice to have a happy ending.

[–] stuckintheazores 15 years ago

I think it is impossible for Nicholas Sparks to write a book with a happy ending. For crying out loud would it kill the man? For real? UGH! I am sooooooooo mad. I guess I'm a romantic I like a happy ending.

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[–] leftybigguns 15 years ago

Nicholas Sparks ruined what would have been one of the best dates I'd ever had. I took a girl to see 'Message In A Bottle'. Nice love story for 3/4 of the movie...then BAM!!! Tragic death. My date cried all the way home. I guess because it was so unexpected. At least now I know to expect that sort of thing in movies based on his books.

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[–] israelx7 15 years ago

I don't think any of you really get it at all.
There's only one thing a woman likes more than a romantic story...that's a romantic story where a character dies and they get to cry their eyes out.
Over what "might have been", or some equally poignant and tragic testimony to "true love" or as we say "to blave"....which as everyone knows means...

[–] YammaD 15 years ago

Not for all women. I often rewatch my favorites over and over again, hoping the ending will change and be a happy one. You know the fairy tale " happily ever after" syndrome.
When I watch the end of "The Way we Were" or "Funny Girl" I think they were so in love why couldn't it have worked out. I guess I am the exception and a hopeless romantic

[–] Erin-Leigh-14 8 years ago

..to bluff.

[–] horrorfanaticgirl 15 years ago

I wasn't tricked..she had mentioned at the beginning about the horses, so I figured they'd see them sometime or another.

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[–] apocalypse_please24 15 years ago

Oh no, I agree. That ending would have been much better.. especially if he'd ended up being ALIVE.

But the horses were nice to have. I guess. =/

[–] Cinderella85 15 years ago

I liked the horses, that was lovely.

I also admit I thought she was looking at him, not that he was alive, but maybe she'd gone alittle mad and was hallucinating..

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[–] tertle 15 years ago

I'll admit I was tricked as well.

I thought it must've been Richard Gere from the look on her face, than we saw the horses. Even at that point, as if I hadn't learned already, I thought he might be riding the last horse directing them her way.

All in all, a solid movie.
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[–] Youcanmakeabettermovie 15 years ago

lol @ FINSLAW. That would have been an awesome ending! Sounds like a horror movie: 'The Horses of Rodanthe Beach'.

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[–] nsupanda 15 years ago

No, they made so many references to the horses in the film and how the chances of seeing them were very slim that I just knew it was going to be the horses. It's a typical stupid movie where you can correctly guess each following scene...

[–] jorgito2001 15 years ago

I was thinking the EXACT same thing as the OP...thought Paul survived that massive mudslide...what a tease. Stupid horses!

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