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Thank you so much, P1inch! That’s so interesting and I have to say, an actual reason to bring this thread up again.
I hoped you thanked him after he solved such a big mystery for you.
I mean, you sent him at least five messages (with a lack of care: “tank”, “fir” “can you answerme please?” ). If you didn’t, it’s not too late to say thanks from the teeming millions here.
But, tank you fir doing that! Seriously, there are so many people who wonder about this. You’re one of my heroes now.
One of these days, AI deepfakes are going to get good enough to actually produce this alternate ending.
Of course, then everyone will be upset that its not the alternate ending that they remember.
Or, when I win the lottery, I’ll hire Spielberg to film it. (Five different ways so people can still say "No, no, no, you’re wrong. The ending I SAW was THIS…!")
Why would it take deepfake tech? Just splice the actual scene from 14 going on 30 that people remember onto the end of Big.
The truth is, not only was there no alternate ending to Big, there is no movie.
The entire thing was made up by a group of graduate Sociology students at the University of Utah. Inspired by Professor Jan Harold Brunvand and his explorations of “urban folklore,” the group decided to spread a completely made up rumor about a film that didn’t even exist.
Instead of something attention-grabbing (e.g., a death during filming) the students chose the mildest sort of myth - an alternate ending to a family-oriented film. Using the emerging technology of Internet chat rooms, they simply asked if anyone had seen the alternate ending to a made up movie “from a few years ago” they called “Big.” Little did they know we sheeple would still be talking about it a quarter-century later.
But there IS a Tom Hanks, right?
There has always been a Tom Hanks, before this form he was Jimmy Stewart. I know in theory their lives overlap, but it is more complicated than that.
There is a Tom Hanks, but after a few years he got tired of trying to explain that he had never made a movie called Big and decided to just play along. Ditto with Penny Marshall.
I’ve read all of this thread, over the years, but don’t remember if the SNL “alternate ending to Big” has ever been mentioned.
It was shown on NBC last night, in the 10pm time-slot they use on those Saturday nights on which sports coverage doesn’t go long. It was a 1988 episode, and Tom Hanks reprised his role as the Big Josh. And, okay, it’s labelled “out takes” rather than “alternate ending,” but:
Yea so guys im from holland and i too remember this ending and all this crap about my memories being scrambled is nice and all but I have never even seen this other movie and i watched the clip from the movie that everyone is saying is what i have imagined in Big. Not the same at all. I watched the movie today for the first time in years to show it to my lady who had never seen it before and i was waiting for the moment like i was waiting for all the other moments and it never came this time we watched it via plex. This was the first time i had seen it without the normal ending… for me the ending had always ended with the girl not the boys walking down the street… But even on my dutch (pal) version it was with the girl susan at the end showing up so you can say it does not exist. But i know it exists. Somewhere.
Or some…other where?
Ah, hope springs eternal. But the reality is that there’s no evidence for it besides a bunch of random conflated memories that don’t all agree with each other. If there was any physical evidence (tape clips, shooting logs of the scenes, actors who remember the scene, any mention of it from contemporary sources) we might give it a little more consideration.
It’s understandable that you don’t remember the seeing 14 Going on 30, and you many not have seen anything more than the final scene. But the fact that the scene you are describing is the final scene from 14 Going on 30, the two movies came out the same time, and have extremely similar themes, and every time someone looks into an incident closely it always turns out to be crossed memories, makes it excruciatingly unlikely that your memories are pristine.
I mean this is one of my favorite tom hanks movies, i have seen this ending not once but many many times. Really wish i hadnt thrown away my old vhs tape which was an ex rental. If i can find one somewhere in holland i will report back
Yea this reminds me of the book replay, man in which version of the truth are we living😃
Good luck. Many people have said the same thing and no one has ever turned up a tape. Perhaps you’ll be the first, but my money’s against you.
How much for the tape? Hahah im gonna hunt one down
You just keep that football put away, Lucy. We’re not falling for that again.
The fact is,@BiggieRemembersSusan, you’re human. And that means that your brain works the way human brains work. It’s easy enough for a brain to accidentally splice two memories together. And at the start, the splice will be a crude one, with rough edges. But every time you remember that spliced memory, the edges get smoother, and the join gets tighter, and so you get more and more convinced that it was just one memory after all. That’s the way that everyone’s memory works (not for this specific incident, necessarily, for all of us, but for some incident or another).
How does the quote go? “Every time you remember a memory, it becomes less of a memory, and more of a story you tell yourself”. At least, I think that’s how the quote went.