Manhunter, Michael Mann’s film version of Thomas Harris’ novel “Red Dragon” (and the first Hannibal Lektor film) changed the ending of the book. In the book
The Tooth Fairy fakes his death and comes agfter Wuill and his family. It’s a tired old cliche by now, and the movie dispensed with it altogether. Tom Noonan dies in a shootout with the police.
This was a test audience change, of Thelma & Louise. Apparently there was a “happy” ending of them landing safely and it was rejected. Good move.
[spoiler]<1>Actually “Y_ S__ B____” occurs much earlier in the film…
<2>ASH: L___, I_ A_____ I_ G_____ T_ H___ T_ A__ Y__ T_ L____ T__ S____.
DEMON: Who the hell are you?!
<3>ASH: T__ N____ A___… H_________.
DEMON: I’ll swallow your soul!
<4>ASH: C___ G__ S___.
Man, you know you’re a fan of a movie when you can recognize dialogue from just the first letters of each word. I wonder if that also applies to Monty Python sketches…
<5>“T___ I_ A_ E_- P_____!”[/spoiler]
Terrifel, I butchered your post up for clarity - that’s why I didn’t use a quote box.
Anyway
Yup, you’re right. That occurs just before the (awesome)shotgun over the shoulder scene.
It is sad that I looked at what you wrote and knew right away what the quote was. It is a good line, but not the caliber of his other one liners.
That is one that I missed. It works much better if you put the gun cocking sound in where the … is.
yup - good one.
No it isn’t.
Less Than Zero – if that counts at all in this context; Harley Payton didn’t just change the ending from Brett Easton Ellis’ novel, he changed the whole plot, i.e., by providing one.
People do complain a lot about the ‘disneyfication’ of these stories, but when your target audience is little kids I think many of the changes are a good thing. Like in Snow White, removing the part about the queen being forced to dance in red-hot iron shoes till she died or in Cinderella with the sisters cutting off parts of their feet to fit the slippers were good moves.
The Secret Garden. In the book, Craven comes home to find Colin happy and healthy, out of bed and walking around, but we see them together from Medlock and Weatherstaff’s POV, watching through the window. In the movie, Colin, Mary and Dickon are in the garden when Colin’s dad returns. Seeing their reunion, Mary breaks down crying and runs out onto the moor, because it has finally hit home with her that her parents are dead, and she’ll never have a reunion like that. They all go after her, and the story ends with the four of them rejoicing. Far more satisfying, especially since Mary and Dickon deserve some credit for Colin’s recovery, which they didn’t get in FHB’s version.
I picked up the DVD boxset of the Evil Dead a while back (just in time for my only mate who’d watch it with me to go to Japan :rolleyes: )
IIRC, the US was the only market to get the shopping centre ending, everyone else got the downer ending.
I’ve heard that Chuck Palahniuk has said that he likes the movie ending to Fight Club* better than his own novel’s ending. I can’t say which one I like better, but the movie definitely hits hard.
The version released in Japan (where the title was Captain Supermarket) also has the S-Mart ending.
Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh.
In the book, spermwhale rolls over like a bitch and sells everyone down the river. In the movie, he comes back and saves the day. I like Spermwhale and whilst the book version in more realistic, the movie is a lot more satisfying.
One of the reasons I think Manhunter is far better than Red Dragon (the movie).
Dolarhyde in Red Dragon was more Hollywood crazy while Dolarhyde in Manhunter had some real social problems.