Anyone else remember the alternate ending to "Big"?

Screw it-believe whatever you want despite all the evidence to the contrary…but thank you for reminding me of something Harlan Ellison once said: “Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that’s horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it’s nothing. It’s just bibble-babble. It’s like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks.”

Penny Marshall directed seven movies. They take a long time to cast, design, film and edit. There’s a paperwork trail, with call sheets, locations, sets, plus of course the shooting script and all its revisions, which she probably still had. It would be hard to forget filming an alternate ending.

On the other hand, there were hundred of episodes of The Newlywed Game, and every one of them was full of innuendo and double ententres. it would be easy to forget one specific tasteless response in a sea of tasteless responses. (and of course, “in the butt, Bob” was not the actual wording. So not remembering something that wasn’t exactly the UL doesn’t mean anything. Eubanks didn’t remember “that’d be the butt, Bob” because that never happened.)
So, yes I believe Penny Marshall.

I presume this has already been posted, but here is the actual ending to the movie 14 Going On 30 that people have been mistakenly remembering as Big.

You may very well be talking about an additional scene shot by the second crew after filming wrapped- Hanks and Perkins would not have been on set, and Marshall might not have been either. So young Josh and a set full of preteens a decade later don’t remember one scene out of 100? What if I could produce a confirmed extra in that scene who DID recall it? Would that settle it, or would they be full of shit, too?

I assume New Zealand TV has been called, and their 30 year old TV copy found and reviewed?

Eubanks’ has more shows, but irrelevant- he SWORE, for years, something 100% didn’t happen, that DID happen- he didn’t say he doubt it happened, didn’t say he didn’t recall, he said it simply did not happen. yet we know it did.

Franky I don’t know or care, but the chutzpah here that WE have as a collective decided it didn’t happen, therefore if you think it did, you are not simply wrong but an idiot, is beyond bizarre.

Why don’t you just produce the scene? Seems a lot easier.

So based on this, do we assume “that’s the beauty of it, it doesn’t DO anything” didn’t happen, or is that different, because many long time posters here remember it, so it must be so?

You can assume whatever you want, but that has jack-all to do with what we are talking about here. Have you got anything besides the ifs and maybes we have already covered in this thread?

Penny Marshall, the director who decides what goes into the movie, wasn’t there, and didn’t see the scene in the dailies?

If you could produce the girl who played young Susan, who ought to have a slight memory of being in one of the biggest hits of the 1980s, that would be strong evidence that the scene was filmed. But of course, people here are making a stronger claim than that - some claim it was filmed, and shown in the theatres - some claim that it was filmed, and shown on TV in NZ - some claim it was filmed and turned up in the videotaped version that they can’t put their hands on.

I gotta jot that quote down for the next flatearther I see.

Have you ever heard of VCRs?

Hopefully some honest soul with a background in film will come along and vouch for the very real possibility of this:

Penny Marshall was a new director in 1989- second film. Did not have full creative control- seriously doubt had final cut. Is done with the movie, turns over her cut to studio. Testing doesn’t go well, they reshoot additional scenes, with or without her involvement. These don’t test well either so are left out of final film. Years later NZ TV needs three extra minutes to fill out a time slot, they add this scene. Alan Smithee is a thing, correct?

And even if she was there- the idea that an elderly woman didn’t recall one small scene in one film, when she was a part of literally hundreds of films and tv shows in her life, is simply not possible? You expect someone to remember every single thing about every work they have been a part of? If I ask Robert De Niro about some small scene in King of Comedy, he is guaranteed to have a vivid memory of it?

VCR more than likely would be an official or near official version. Films shown on TV to this day add scenes not in the film to fill a time slot. TV version would not be VCR version.

again, why is it accepted here “it doesn’t DO anything” is real, but this is not?

“Small scene” != completely changes the ending and meaning of a movie

Because one doesn’t have anything to do with the other, obviously.
Again, do you have anything besides the evidence-less “ifs” and “maybes” that we have already covered in this thread?

I give you points for creativity. Usually “Alternative-Big” truthers claim that people’s memories of seeing a film decades ago are completely trustworthy, and must not be doubted. Your claim that the memories of the person who created the film and discussed creating it in interviews and books is thoroughly unreliable is novel, and I appreciate the new twist. “Elderly” is a nice bit of rhetoric too. Penny Marshall talked about the film right after she made it - in 1988 (here for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwko3ze39Vc) when she was 45. It would have been an interesting thing to mention that she hired a girl to play “young Susan,” filmed a scene, and didn’t use it, right?

But presumably that version with the extra scene would have been recorded by someone on a VCR.

You say that enough you may believe it yourself, eventually- it is IDENTICAL and just shows the hypocrisy of many on this board:

In summary:

Big alternate ending- something dozens of people (with under 1000 posts) swear they saw, swear it exists, but no proof, so of course they are imbeciles.

Doesnt DO Anything- something dozens of people (with OVER 1000 posts) swear they saw, swear it exists, but no proof, but of course it exists, because faulty memory happens, but not to long time SDMB posters- proof just hasn’t surfaced yet. Must be from Blansky’s Beauties or Pink Lady and Jeff, something not currently shown in syndication.

Everyone involved with the movie has a faulty memory…but we can rely on someone who saw it once many years ago?

Yeah…I’ll come back when you have something solid pertaining to the movie being discussed.
BTW, have you seen that movie called “Shazam” starring Sinbad?

more than likely, yes. But it took decades for the Newlywed Game vaults to unearth ‘in the ass’. I wonder if this board has many posters who were VCR’ing shows off NZ TV in 1989?