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?
There is a good discussion of this question in this previous GQ thread:
‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ - SPOILER
I found it by searching 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
Thanx for the info…I can’t believe I didn’t try looking in the search archives first…
The boat sinks, right? Nothing too vague about that.
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.
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!