Anyone else remember the alternate ending to "Big"?

So, what you’re saying is that you have no evidence of this alternate ending at all, correct? Cause that’s what your post boils down to.

Click the ‘edit’ button. I think it might require getting ‘recognized’ (giving the server a username to associate with your IP), now (I’ve been recognized forever, so don’t notice) but that’s it.

No. Even much higher profile pages than Big* have tropes that don’t apply (and tropes have works they don’t apply to in their example list).** It relies on ‘wiki magic’ to keep things accurate, but that requires people a) finding the page, b) knowing that the point is in error, b-2) caring that the point is in error, and c) being able to make the change without the original poster putting it right back in. I’ve just wiki-magicked it out…let’s see how long that lasts.

Check the edit history, like any other wiki. (In this case, the entry was added by user Cough Dropz, and added to by And Introducing A Leg.)

  • As of my edit, there are a total of 50. Five Nights at Freddy’s WMG page has gotten twice that in the last week, as an example of a more active page.

** Oh, and a further thought - there’s at least one work listed on several trope pages that, so far as I or several other tropers can tell, does not exist - there is a different work with the name, but none of the tropes it’s listed on apply to that one.

That TV Tropes entry looks like someone read this thread and listed all the different claims made by posters as fact.

Well, game over. It’s on a wiki; it must be true.

Well, Killing Time, it seems that your so-called “cite” from TV Tropes is nothing more than an anonymous collection of recollections that(strangely) match up with the accounts in this thread. It’s a miracle!

Or something.

I blame the OP for starting this monstrosity 12 years ago. I read somewhere even he claims it is false now. Is this true?

No, I have a distinct memory of a post where he was positive that his memory was correct. Perhaps he went back and did an alternative edit to his post after you saw it.

I always remembered it as “A”, so any of you people from the “E” dimension, I can fill you in on the differences between the universes, if you’re having trouble adjusting.

Weird thing is, while I could have sworn the spelling was “Berenstein,” and would have bet a whole lotta money on it, I do say it in my head as “bear-en-stain” instead of “bear-en-steen,” so perhaps I vacillate between the dual universes.

Having read this thread carefully , I watched the ‘14 going on 30’ clip.
The ending (with the girl walking into the class) was exactly the same as a version of ‘Big’ I once saw. Even the actors were the same :confused:

No, I’m kidding. :smack:

Anyway I do have the actual film clip from ‘Big’ and if you send me $1,000,000* I’ll give you a copy.

*My account is with the Bank of Nigeria.

No, it doesn’t “boil down” to that at all. To state that “nobody can find a copy of it”, based only on the fact that YOU haven’t seen a copy on YouTube, is fallacious. That was my point. It cannot be boiled any further than that.

It is neither better nor worse than any of the “cites” that have been provided in support of the “alternate ending never existed” theory, which leaves us where we started - so far there isn’t any reliable objective evidence one way or the other. I will admit that there seem to be more people who have seen the version that ends with Josh only* and so those people are quite a bit louder about their opinions, but that’s about it.

*Even among that group, the opinions aren’t consistent - some claim the movie ends with Josh going home to his mother, while others claim it ends with Josh playing with his friends.

Fine, we get it. You’re convinced the ending exists and absolutely nothing on earth will ever change your mind, since we can never “prove” that the ending doesn’t exist.

As for your above comment, it makes me wonder how long it’s been since you’ve actually seen the movie. The last scene proper is young Josh flopping his way into the house in his now-oversized suit. Scenes set just after and (IIRC) during the closing credits show Josh and his best friend ambling along, talking about 14yo stuff. That’s in all versions of the film ever released, AFAIK.

Teach the controversy!

duplicate post, sorry.

That is cool, but it’s rather a bad analogy to the “Big” question. That would be more along the lines of you always thought they were rabbits and then discovered they were bears all along.

I mean, if thousands of people swore the sign at the toy store said FAO Schwartz rather than FAO Schwarz, I would find it mildly interesting at best. But thousands of people swearing there was an entire scene that basically changes the entire outcome of the movie, that’s another thing altogether.

No, that’s not anywhere close to what I said, but thank you so much for putting words in my mouth.:stuck_out_tongue:

Hmmm… read words much? I said OTHER people disagree on which is the final scene. I am basing that on reading their comments, not on my own recollection.

What evidence would convince you? If you can conceive of evidence that would make you change your mind please post it.

Yeah, like the people who saw the “in the ass” line on The Newlywed Game. A lot of them thought the guy was black, when he was actually middle eastern. And many thought he said “butt” when he actually said “ass”.

So I guess we can conclude from this that the incident never happened. Except that it DID happen.

Because it reduces the impact and lesson her time with Josh teaches her into “there’s a magic fix to have childhood back!”

The entire plot of Big is build around the classic “be careful what you wish for” scenario – Josh has fun being an adult, but ultimately it hurts more than helps and he needs to become a kid again to fix things. But the movie ISN’T a complete downer, because the impact he has on Susan will give her a new chance to really live life.

If she just gets to turn magically into a kid at the end, it drastically undermines one of the major themes (and folklore underpinnings) of the story.