I was a professional extra for years. My sister still is. Extras dont get credit. If you get any lines, you are upgraded, get a sag voucher, a credit, and a HUGE raise. You’re clearly talking out of your ass.
Edit: and now I see he was banned… bah!
Not in a classroom. There was a gym-class scene, but nothing with students seated at desks.
The funny thing is, I have a clear mental picture of this scene, just based on arguing over it in this thread over the years. To the extent that at one point, I almost argued that someone was describing the non-existent scene wrong.
Also, I don’t remember what the kid who played Josh looks like, so in my head, he’s very obviously Wonder Years-era Fred Savage.
A helpful rule of thumb for deciding which of two non-disproved hypotheses to tentatively believe is : believe the one that would be easier to disprove. If the guy at the bar claims he knows Beyonce, you disbelieve that hypothesis (tentatively) because it would be really easy for him to prove it if it were true ('Hey, Beyonce could you mention me in a tweet by name or let me get a picture of us hanging out?") but really difficult to prove the opposite. This is a helpful heuristic because it puts you in the position of learning you were wrong quicker. The application to the question of Big is left as an exercise for the student.
I think this is the direction this thread was destined to go back in 2002. Can we say we know no alternative ending happened? I think we can because there is no evidence that it ever did.
Bless you.
I love this thread with all my heart. It gives me hope in a cruel, dark world, that wishes might come true.
I was sad when this got closed, just because it’s like an annoying childhood friend that you miss somehow.
My cousin in New Zealand recorded it on VHS, so we don’t need another thread about how our memories of this thread are conflated.
This is the classic misunderstanding and misapplication of the aphorism absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. If a hypothesis predicts that we should expect to see evidence, then absence of evidence is good evidence that the hypothesis is false.
Well, you did create a sibling to this thread in 2008 that did not get as much love: What happened to the alternate ending to Big? - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board
(I remember. Let’s leave that mistake forgotten).
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There was one. Tom Hanks reads a Berenstein Bears book about Nelson Mandela and his tragic death in prison. But that’s only in the Maori version.
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This is Schrodinger’s Thread: it is both closed and not closed at the same time.
Actually, I agree with the dear, departed Helmut Doork. This thread has come as close as anything to proving there was no alternative ending to Big.
But how about that alternative ending to A League of Their Own, where Dottie holds onto the ball, Kit is called out, and Kit becomes a bitter old woman who never reconciles with her sister.
Didn’t that blow your mind when they showed it on that Qantas Airlines flight from Honolulu to Sydney!
The one I’m glad is not true is the alternate ending to Blade Runner where the movie claims Deckard is a replicant. The scenes would have had to have been filmed later, probably by a rogue director. Good thing that isn’t real. It would completely undercut the theme of the film.
I think you need to read both Doork’s and my comment more carefully. Doork’s comment was sarcastic (your quote has snipped the emoticon from the end of his sentence) implying that he thinks it’s always impossible to “prove a negative”. So you’re saying you disagree with him, and agree with me.
I just love how big the Big thread is.
This thread is older now than Big was when it was started.
Bigger, too.
I didn’t know they made multiple Big sequels. Did they have alternate endings, too?