Wrong! After discovering the orgies at work between Rob, Morey Amsterdam, Rose Marie, and the bald guy, they had an acrimonious divorce; she changed her name, moved to Minneapolis, and went into broadcast news. In celebration of her new life without him, she used to throw her hat in the air!
That’s only because Rose Marie would do things a proper wife in that time wouldn’t. She learned a few special techniques during the war when she was younger, and worked as a prostitute in Singapore.
Gotta agree with this. Someone who drinks toasts to world peace and quotes 18th century French poetry would get on my nerves. He picked her because he needed a goal and she was the best looking woman around.
Other thoughts…
Breaking up with The Nanny wouldn’t be enough, that voice would eventually lead to violence and murder.
Sabrina – old guy would die on his wedding night just seeing a naked Julia Ormand.
Houseboat – Cary Grant would get tired of Sophia Loren’s maintenance costs and tantrums.
What Women Want – lasts until the first anti-Semitic tirade.
In summary, none of them last!
Not really a fair prediction, since the (canon, I assume) reunion show of a few years ago has them still together.
Yeah, that was kinda the point.
I think Monica and Chandler Bing would stay together because they just plain liked each other so muuch.
Ross and Rachel, on the other hand…
See above. That wasn’t the point. The point was supposed to be that they were happy about getting away and then the director changed it on a whim.
I realize my harping on this is just because I really hated The Graduate, but learning that the ending was just made up because the director liked the face Dustin Hoffman makes when he’s about to shit himself was just too much.
Writers make screenplays. Directors make movies.
In the screenplay of *The Graduate, *they were happy. In the movie The Graduate, they were happy *and *scared shitless.
Sure thats half the story. Nobody hears about her crushed self esteem. How she moved to Chicago to start over, had a shot at a real career, but had her dreams destroyed by vindictive parents after a baby sitting job went horribly wrong.
And how, with nothing left, she ended up turning tricks in Vegas watching Nicholas cage drink himself to death…
…damn you, Netflix…
That’s the other thing. I think the auteur theory is crap.
I was going to say this.
As Good as it Gets is a good nomination for “most likely to blow up spectacularly”.
Your alternative doesn’t seem to be much better. In order to critically watch a movie, we must know exactly what happened on the set on each particular take? If a bird happened to fly overhead, which caused the kid playing the son to suddenly look away, and the camera operator catches it, the director likes it, the editor keeps it in, etc., we’re supposed to disregard it as meaningless because the incident had nothing to do with the movie? You don’t even have to agree with the auteur theory to accept that the Graduate’s ending on screen is the one we should take. (Except that you seem to be arguing for it partly in this case by saying that the director bullied everyone at all steps to make sure the scene was released this way.)
So if the director changes the story, that’s not the real story. The real story is the original story, not what we see on screen?
All stories are just made up.
Oh, thank god! I turned this off halfway through when I lost hope that they’d die in a mutual suicide pact. It looks like I made the right choice. I hope at least that the cuckolded boyfriend got some allergy shots and found a healthy relationship with someone less psycho. Squeaky Fromme for example.
The original Star Wars trilogy - As one of the few members of the rebel alliance with any governing experience, Leia assumes a significant position of power in the junta that fills the galactic power void now that the Emporer is dead. She quickly realizes that Han, an uncouth, small-potato space jockey from some “back woods” nether region world like Tattooine would simply never fit into the imperial court. She gives him the heave-ho faster than Obi-wan disintegrates.
That’s just fine by Han though. He quickly realizes that the one true love of his life is…Chewbacca. The pair of them become poster children for the burgeoning movement to legalize same-sex, inter-species marriages.
I hate to say it, but I just can’t see Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable’s relationship going the distance. Ron’s got the wandering eye thing going and Kim’s always off saving the world. 
Look at the critiques of films that champion the auteur theory. All the credit goes to the director (even the acting and, most baffling of all, the special effects). But all blame goes to some other poor schmoe. More often than not, the writer. I think that’s a horrible way to look at a movie. Which is why, outside of a few names, I really could care less who’s directing a movie.
That said, in the case of The Graduate, that story is just one more reason for me to dislike the movie on top of the actual movie itself being a dated piece of flotsam.
No way. First time he catches a cold, she’ll be off to the radio to latch onto the next sob story subject.
I really can’t picture Liza Doolittle staying long with Henry Higgins. They should have let Freddy have her, like in the play. That would have lasted – mainly because she’s smarter than he is.
I think Hugh Grant’s character would eventually have realized that Kristin Scott Thomas’ character is the one he was supposed to end up with.
By the end of the movie, I think only his character, and the screenwriter and director are the only ones who didn’t realize it.