Why 'Fatal Attraction' Originally Had A Very Different Ending | PEN | People
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- The bloody conclusion of 'Fatal Attraction' originally had a very different feel with Glenn Close framing Michael Douglas for murder, but the test audience decided that it needed a better ending.
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Glenn Close was amazingly brilliant in this role. Her character was so disturbing and creepy, so much so that for a long time I couldn’t stand Glenn Close, whatever roles she was in after Fatal Attraction I could just picture her as Alex Forest. She says that she didn’t think that her character would have been a psychopath that went after Dan’s wife the way she did, but I disagree. She was psycho enough to stalk and threaten Dan and his family, obsess about him night and day for weeks, bring a child into the world with a man who did not care about or love her, pour acid all over his car, kidnap the child, break into the family’s home and kill and boil the kid’s pet bunny, break into the home again and attack Dan and his wife with a knife. It’s plausible that Alex could have just committed suicide, but it’s just as plausible that she’d try to murder Dan and his wife. Think of jodi arias, and what she did to her victim, Travis Alexander when she couldn’t force him into a relationship that he didn’t want any part of. Arias was referred to as having this “fatal attraction” towards him. Borderline personality disorder.
For all who says she is crazy, this is a textbook case of Borderline Personality Disorder.
Thank you!!!!!! Finally someone who knows this behavior's origins.
How the heck do you know
Which is crazy
Actually, in the original ending, Anne Harcher listened a Glenn Close's message revealing she plans to kill herself and will bring it to the police. But I think the "rabbit scene" doomed Alex (Close's character): from this scene on, the test audience lost her sympathy for her and wanted her to be punished.
Yes, she had to pay for what she did to that poor bunny! the alternate ending would not have worked for me 😄
the original ending was more likely to happen
THe original ending was better. Would had given film noir feeling to it. Would had been more realistic in the sense that both paid for doing things wrong. Also, it would given Anne Archer another good scene. As far as I remember, Dan did not ended in jail, because Beth found the tape basically pointing Alex for everything. I wished Adrian Lynne and Paramount released the film on Bluray with the original ending but not as a bonus feature, just included as it was meant to.
The original ending was so unfair because Dan would have spent life in jail as punishment for committing adultery. Do you really think that's a fair punishment? BTW. Glenn Close's character in the revised ending was not punished for her adultery but was punished for repeatedly attacking and trying to murder Dan and his family.
@@Spartacus516 Yes.
@@Spartacus516 In the original ending, Beth found an Alex's message about her suicidal intentions and brings it to the police.
It makes sense from the audience point of view. I’m sure during the film they felt bad for Alex but once she killed the rabbit, the sympathy for her ended. The audience wanted revenge and I can’t blame them for that. Plus that ending would of underwhelmed the audience and it probably wouldn’t have done well in the box office. One simple ending could ruin a film.
Yes, the rabbit scene doomed her. And I understand the audience.
Having not seen the film, I recently saw the play of the film which I realise now had the alternate ending of the film. The ending of the play did make me feel a bit underwhelmed in retrospect.
I lost sympathy when Alex took the little girl out of school posing as her mother taking her to the amusement park and parents don’t know where she is at. Ann archer character gets into car accident. The original ending was giving me lifetime movie vibes.
That's what happens when you care about what 'people' think... A ridiculous misogynistic ending to a brilliant movie...
Yesssss exactly
I agree too
How is the ending "misogynistic"? Just because you know buzz words, it doesn't make you a genius
I like the original ending better,Dan needed to lose something
He DID lose her wife's trust in him
the majority don't like realistic endings.
I mean either way the end result is the same. Alex dies and Dan is in the clear.
Best ending would have been - Beth finds the tape, listens to the exonerating evidence....then she destroys it.
Adam Klein Beth was very much heartbroken while listening to the tape. I think she felt how bad that Alex wanted her husband desperately and that she was in a state of deep loss and desire to the point where she can't live without him or she'll have the desire to die.
dave4248 I bet if Dan would have been framed he would have just choose to take Alex back with him instead of jail time
I really thought the wife was going to destroy the tape and allow ger husband to take the rap for the murder.
Honestly I was hoping for that.
The original ending did not have Dan in the clear. His fingerprint was found on her knife and he went to jail being accused. But the reshot ending ensured huge box office cuz audiences want to see her killed by someone else, not herself.
The wife should have delete the record....that should have been a fucking terrifying finale!
I thought the second ending was much better, because it shows that he shouldn’t of done it and he choose his wife, it was wrong in the first place but the second ending had me on my toes the whole time.
She was a psychopath.. she killed a bunny and put him on boiled water 😮
Definitely💔😟😢
I liked the 1st ending better
The original was better. The other turned it from drama into horror. Actually it all went unrealistic when Alex managed to take the girl from school. She was a total stranger to her and yet they're playing in the park like best buddies.
So please release also the original ending !!!
Glenn Close was definitely right I remember the movie well and this would've been a much better realistic ending it also would've been better for an archer because her scene in the envoys really dramatic along with Glenn Close they both would've got kudos for this Sunday to shame but I guess it's about money
The original was definitely better and more poetic. But mass audiences clearly were drawn to the alternative ending, so changing it was a smart marketing choice. Glenn Close is a smart woman for acknowledging both of these things.
People didn't want a woman winner, 'poor' Dan would end up in jail
They should have a prequel about Alex and what happened in her life. Why she became the way she did. Apparently she might have been abused and battered in her youth.
What scene did the original ending come right after?
I like this ending better more real
Do you remember the Jodie Arias case? She killed her ex boyfriend by stabbing him multiple times and then cutting his throat open. In real life, women like Alex don't kill themselves
There's 1 case out of 100 and the other way round men kilin their gfs exes 99%
@@fritzthecat6164
I don't know any case of a woman "killing herself" because she couldn't have her man. That is why I don't think this ending is realistic at all. Men are much more prone to kill themselves over things like this.
you can't fight crazy!
AMEN! You love that person but they can't see what is wrong. So, it doesn't matter, they are not getting it at all, crazy is crazy only one way, theirs! Can't fight it!
Cool!
I love this movie so much. I love Alex Forrest and Glenn Close was the best at playing her character 🖤🔪
In a way, I agree with Glenn that they should have stayed true to the character and stuck with the original ending. But sometimes, things have to be done the Hollywood way and trust things will fall into place and it did. It doesn’t take away their academy award nominations which til this day, I believe Glenn and Anne should have won the Oscars. I mean, is anyone even talking about Moonstruck in 2020?
I so agree they only gave Cher that Oscar because they snubbed her years earlier for Mask because Glenn Close was so convincing in this movie
People say the original ending is better and more realistic but I don't really see Alex as a suicidal character.
Alex did nothing wrong it was Dan having a affair and making Alex pregnant he got away with murder so why should Beth get back with him, rubbish
What man wouldn't want to be chased by a good-looking blonde girl? However, I don't think he'd want the psychotic danger.
Maybe a gay man perhaps?
@@lamueldagon7618, it doesn't mean he wouldn't like her attention.
Suis dèçue IL n'y a aucun soutritage en français.
C'est un reportage américain, sur film américain pour une chaîne de TV américaine, donc aucune raison de mettre des sous-titres en français! Apprenez l'anglais!
Filosofic film!!!!
So if a man kidnapped a kid and boiled the family pet, would he be considered a psychopath?
Yup
@@granny58 It's just a bad day for a woman... LOL
I liked e ending
The movie ending though cathartic for audience members who had put up with her for nearly two hours was a bit out there, the original ending made so much more sense especially as we had seen her cutting herself before even if it was for attention. Then again she was totally unhinged so either scenario was possible.
Both endings are bad.
Original is unbelievable to me. It's highly unlikely that by 36 years old Dan was Alex's first obsession. That's how she loves, it has happened times before, yet she's still alive.
The climactic ending is horrible. First, it IS a betrayal of the character, just like Glenn Close said. What's even worse is that the wifey, the sweetheart auntie, has become a murderer. Happy ending? Seriously? An innocent woman has her life torn apart: husband cheats on her and now she has blood on her hands, and she had to live with that.
Murderer? His wife's shot was entirely justifiable
That was completely justified. That is self defense at the end of the day. From Dan's perspective; you come in and repeatedly attempt to kill me and my family, kidnap my daughter, and you still have the audacity to come into my home and try to murder everyone inside? Yes, you're trespassing into my home and I sense you are a threat, so I am going to exercise deadly force in self defense.
@@gabenewell6998 You forget the boiled rabbit.
She's not a murderer for defending her family.
i liked the original ending, it reminds me of amber heard spilling the beans in the audio,.
It's just a movie, people.
In this interview, Glenn Close expresses a typical Lifetime movie attitude in which the violent women are always portrayed as not being responsible for their murderous actions. Those Lifetime movies exonerate the murderous women by claiming that they're "deeply disturbed" rather than the accurate description of them being malicious first-degree murderers. I'm so relieved that the original ending for this movie was scrapped. Nowadays, though, misandry is rampant in today's movies so this ending in which the female psychopath gets poetic justice would never be used.
Who did she kill apart from the rabbit
I agree the second ending is better but your reasoning is absolutely terrible.
I bet you're a Christian that believes morality is objective because of God. Hahaha fucking loser. There is no god
@@FrankieTeardrop1998 Actually, I'm an atheist so your assumption about me was wrong. My standards of morality are simply based on common sense and have nothing to do with God (since I agree with you that there is no God).