Original Sin : Why did they go for that ending?

Good film, better than i thought it would be, but i hated the ending.

C'monshe gets out by wearing the priests clothes? How improbable is that? and how many times have we seen that trick done in movies?

Then the final scene where they're working a card game together and the credits roll and they live happily ever after we presume. That's too cliche for me.

I would have preferred it if she went to the gallows and Luis visits her grave and lays some flowers and ponders what could have been. That's more poetic as an ending. Am i right or wrong?

Actually, that is a good ending. But you mustn't be surprised by the ending - it is a hollywood movie! they nearly all end like that

Thanks, i like my ending too. I would also have had Luis crying at her grave.

I just think tragic endings have more impact on the viewer but i know hollywood has screen tested movies infront of US audiences before release and the happy endings seem to win out.

Interesting you bring up the ending. Saw this film at the cinema and was really enjoying it until it got to the ending shown. Left the film feeling really angry about it.

To me it seemed as if the director had been forced to change the ending to make it more 'hollywood'. Dies another ending exist. Surely it would have been so much better if Banderas had died from the poison and Jolie had been hung. I think that would have made it a great film.

The ending that is there makes the actors look stupid and I hate that!

How does the book end?

Luis dies in the end of the book from the poison and that is when Julia truly finds out that she loves him.

Question, what's the title of the book?

I actually just saw this movie for the first time on tv the other night and the ending kind of ruined the whole movie for me. In my opinion it seemed as though Luis died from the poison I mean how great is the medicine in Cuba at that time to save him from rat poison? And he was also caught shooting Billy so why wasn't he in prison too? And did Julia just happen to find him? I don't know I just thought it was so weird and unexplained. Am I over thinking it? Or should I just be content with them showing up in Morocco conning together?

No, you should just pay more attention. Bonnie killed Billy, she shot him in front of the police to take the fall for Louis. Which is why she is in prison, and he is not.

Dumbass.

A Waltz Into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich.

Waltz Into Darkness by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich) It's really hard to find (took me the better part of six years!) but sometimes copies pop up on ebay.

Personally I think that having Luis crying over her grave would have been even more corny.

This sounds really awful and I don't thing this should have happened, but I think the only way to get out any Hollywood ending was for them all to die. I kind of wish Luis had of died from the poison, I thought the scene where he actually took it was great.

director admits they made him give it a happy ending instead of the tragic ending that was original made for the film

I loved the ending. Seeing them 'back to their old tricks' added that extra touch I felt.

Here's how I interperted the ending: she was executed, and this was the fantasy that went through her mind as they were killing her. From the moment she escaped until the end, it was all something she cooked up in her own mind. My evidence for this is that she was to be executed by having her head squeezed off by that strange device. And when they showed her cheating at cards, the gesture she made was her slashing her throat. (Of all the gestrues she made in the previous game, this was the one they chose to do at the end.) So I always looked at the whole Morocco thing as a pleasant fantasy she had while she was dying.

That's pretty deep. I like it, but I don't think so. I thought it was consistent with Jolie's character that she would use her sexuality to play the monk like she played all the other men in her life, and to get away. The last scene WAS remarkably cheesy, though. How did they find each other? Was there some way they could have planned a rendezvous point before she went into prison?

Ludicrous film, indeed, but I had heard it was the worst thing ever made, so my expectations were really low. I wound up guiltily loving it.

*chuckles* believe it or not you all just convienced me to watch this movie. I am sick of the spate of sad ending movies that I've seen lately and from the description was afraid that this would be yet another movie that left me depressed. Now it sounds like it won't be. Life is depressing enough, I like my fantasy to be, well, fantasy. Off to the video store for me!

On another thread someone made the point that 'clouds' in final Morroco scene could represent heaven or dream. But if Lunadiva is right and Luis and Julia do live happily ever after, the clouds could just be director's form of exaggeration to show they are now living in paradise-like conditions.

I actually saw this film in a test audience (all the boat scenes still had a green screen) and the ending was completely different. Luis died in her arms from the poison. She was shown on the way to her execution, although they didn't show it, but we knew she was killed. There was no last minute intervention by the priest. I was surprised when I watched it on TV years after the fact and the ending was completely different. The confession scenes in the prison were also shorter. So yeah, the director did have to tack on the "Hollywood" ending.

Damn hollywood!

To be honest..I was confused myselfbut thought they had both died and were in Heaven..the smoke and the wind kind of made it seem that way to me. It was like saying that there love never died. Who knows!

I was hoping for more of an unpredictable twist. I would have gone for her being executed. It seemed like a rewrite to me of a more original ending. It would have been more poetic to have both her and die and buried together.

Just saw it and had to rewind to see what I missed.

So Antonio Banderas does not die. They are on the train trying to escape. After she kills Billy, they try to get away before police arrive.

i assume that Antonio is given help, he lives and she escapes and they meet up and start gambling in Morocco.

That sure was a twist. I don't think they are in heaven by the way.