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Enola Straight
04-07-2001, 02:29 PM
Can someone tell me what that last scene is meant to explain? The Kung-Fu chick tells the Desert Bandit to make a wish...he wishes she would stay with him forever...
and she does a base jump off the mountain.

Is this some kind of suicide, or some mystical method of fulfilling the wish, or what?
Arjuna34
04-07-2001, 02:38 PM
There is a good discussion of this question in this previous GQ thread:

'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' - SPOILER (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=56630)

I found it by searching (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php) for "tiger" in the subject line only, in GQ only, with "Any Date" selected.

To summarize the thread, it's intentionally left vague as to what happened, just like the end of the movie Titanic is vague (even in the script it doesn't say for sure).

Arjuna34
Enola Straight
04-07-2001, 02:48 PM
Thanx for the info...I can't believe I didn't try looking in the search archives first...
MEBuckner
04-07-2001, 03:18 PM
...just like the end of the movie Titanic is vague...
The boat sinks, right? Nothing too vague about that.
Mahaloth
04-07-2001, 03:24 PM
MEBuckner, maybe I didn't catch the sarcasm, but he was refering to the "death" of Rose. Anyway, I don't think this technicaly is a GQ, but Tiger is very open to interpretation also. I know that in the book series, she isn't in the next books.
MEBuckner
04-07-2001, 04:04 PM
Yeah, Mahaloth, I know. I was just being a smart-ass.

Plus, my brain has successfully blocked out most details of Titanic. There was a big boat. And an iceberg. I seem to recall Billy Zane running around waving a pistol and tying the heroine to the railroad tracks--not sure what that was about.
Zarathustra
04-07-2001, 06:58 PM
Originally posted by MEBuckner
Yeah, Mahaloth, I know. I was just being a smart-ass.

Plus, my brain has successfully blocked out most details of Titanic. There was a big boat. And an iceberg. I seem to recall Billy Zane running around waving a pistol and tying the heroine to the railroad tracks--not sure what that was about.

I remember that scene! the dialogue went something like this:

Cal Hockley: You must pay the rent!

Rose DeWitt Bukater: But I can't pay the rent!

Cal Hockley: You must pay the rent!!

Rose DeWitt Bukater: But I can't pay the rent!!

Jack Dawson: I'll pay the rent!

Rose DeWitt Bukater: My hero! Strips off clothes, reclines on couch

Cal Hockley: Curses! Foiled again!