In the stage version, Seymour feeds Audrey to the plant. I don’t recall what happened to Seymour after that (the play may not have shown that).
So, you’re not that far off :D.
Note that there’s a song in the musical that talks about her marrying Freddie and how absurd it it. But as for Freddy, he’s far to callow for Eliza.
No, they really did film that for the movie version. Seymour feeds Audrey to the plant, then it grows little Audrey 2’s and takes over the world. In the stage play, vines fall all around the audience and they’re warned “not to feed the plants”. The ending didn’t sit well with test audiences so they changed it, but they recently showed the original ending in theatres in all its remastered glory.
ETA: Sorry, didn’t see Darren’s comment before I posted.
I like the version of Titanic where they put a giant spotlight on the bow of the ship that shown for miles ahead, making it easy to see ice (or other ships). This innovation was adopted by all steamships, at a great savings in lives over the decades.They still never put enough life boats on board, though, until the Queen Mary. Fortunately, the Titanic never sank, and is on display in Belfast.
Made for a dreadful movie though.
I was involved with an amateur community theatre production of Little Shop last fall. Here you go:
[spoiler]Seymour feeds a dead Audrey to the plant–she dies in his arms in the shop, but before she does, she asks to be fed to the plant, so she will always be “somewhere that’s green.”
An entrepreneur arrives to buy cuttings, because every household in America will want an Audrey II. Seymour realizes that this kind of distribution is part of the plant’s plan for world domination, and resolves to kill the plant. When neither a gun nor rat poison work, he grabs a machete and crawls into the plant, so he can kill it from the inside. As the final song tells us, he was unsuccessful, and the cuttings taken from Audrey II grew into plants that ate a number of places, including the theatre presenting the show. (Cue plant tendrils suddenly reaching out towards the audience.)[/spoiler]
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape: why, it’s Mom’s corpse! Her spirit realized that she’d likely still be alive if only she had stayed downstairs rather than slept upstairs as the kids had been encouraging her to do.
That would screw up the whole game. Ilsa would have to have the pilots of the fake plane feign some kind of mechanical failure and then contrive to run Rick out of Casablanca so Signor Ferrari could take possession of the Cafe American and the entertainment services of Sam, which is what the movie is really all about. The fact that Rick is a sap for being noble is what males the long con work.
And not an alternate ending per se, but Mean Girls should end after Regina George gets run over by a bus.
Stranger
In the ending I remember, the rebels truly were no match for that technological masterpiece - and those were, in fact, the droids they were looking for.
Joker, Rafter-Man and Animal Mother win that fucking war by themselves, and “Peter-san” doesn’t get whacked.
If you stay after the credits of the last Matrix movie, Keanu sits upright from out of frame, reaches back and removes the plug from the back of his head, turns to a bank of monitors displaying live feeds of the rest of the film’s cast, and says “That was awesome, what do you want to play next?”
James Bond is on the gold-covered table where Goldfinger is about to slice him in twain from the crotch up with the laser.
JB: “I know about Operation Grand Slam!”
Goldfinger: “No doubt that’s just something you heard about in passing.”
JB: “Can you afford to take that chance?”
Goldfinger, after a few seconds thought: “Yes, I can.”
JB: “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKK!!!”
Regards,
Shodan
Willy Wonka, Charlie and Grandpa Joe, after launching into the sky in the glass elevator, realize they have no steering, propulsion or brakes and come crashing down to their screaming deaths a few minutes later.
No, the elevator flies fine, but when they return to the factory, Wonka shows Charlie his new flavor of “German Chocolate”. It’s got “extra German” flavor. And dessert is a giant blueberry pie. Charlie doesn’t get it, but Grandpa Joe gets an odd look on his face.
Later he quietly tries to find Veruca and Mike, but no trace of them exists.
The last shot of the film is Joe going into Wonka’s office, and Wonka has a weird grin… cut to credits.
Hmm, thinking about the movie, considering that Ms. Galore and her air crew would have likely switched out those poison gas canisters for inert ones even without a roll in the hay with Bond…what would have been different in the end besides the US Army troops that were storming Fort Knox needing to take out OddJob as well?
Reminds me of *Nicholas Nickelby * where they watch a version of Romeo and Juliet where they’re both still alive at the end.
I think the current ending of Jane Eyre is better than the original. We owe Thursday Next a debt of gratitude.
Minority Report - Tom Cruise’s wife tries to let herself into the jail using his old eyeballs…and is immediately arrested because their IT department of course deleted that user’s credentials the second he was imprisoned.
Die Hard 2 - Bruce Willis tries to light the leaking jet fuel with his Zippo, nothing happens, and the bad guys fly away.
Never think about the hero being necessary for the outcome. That only leads to disappointment.
12 Angry Men: (Former) Juror 8, walking home from the courthouse with a quietly pleased look on his face, spies a nicely dressed but otherwise nondescript man walking down the sidewalk, half a block down in the opposite direction…who, never breaking stride or making eye contact, casually drops a half-full bag of popcorn in a trash can before passing by.
Juror 8 just as casually plucks the bag out of the can as he continues on his way, but waits until he turns the next corner before brushing enough popcorn off the top to confirm that there are a couple of bundles of bills hidden in the middle of the bag.
He grins, jauntily tosses a kernel into his mouth, and continues on his way with a whistle. All in a day’s work!