different ending
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Purple Rose of Cairo
intofilm — 14 years ago(February 18, 2012 02:01 PM)
I would like to see an alternate version of this film, where cecilia chooses Baxter. My favorite line is: "Sure, he's fictional, but nobody's perfect."
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lubin-freddy — 14 years ago(February 21, 2012 07:41 AM)
She couldn't choose Baxter, any more than the Owen Wilson character in
Midnight in Paris
could have chosen 1920s Paris. We can only live in the real world, with short excursions to other worlds, via art.
I want to shake every limb in the Garden of Eden
and make every lover the love of my life -
intofilm — 14 years ago(February 23, 2012 01:51 PM)
Hey, it's a movie. It's a movie about fantasy. It's not confined to "the real world." One of my favorite Woody Allen films is his segment in New York Stories where his mother gets put into the sky over Manhattan and talks to New Yorkers from her vantage point, wrecking his life. That's one of the cool things about him, he can be so creative about fantasy in film.
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lubin-freddy — 14 years ago(February 23, 2012 08:37 PM)
Yes, I know it's a movie, and it could have ended any way Allen wanted it to end. I just think that he wanted to make a point about however much we fantasize about alternate lives in the make-believe world of the movies, at the end of the day we have to live in the real world.
So within the moral universe that Allen created, I think that his ending was the one that had to be.
I want to shake every limb in the Garden of Eden
and make every lover the love of my life -
nat_mermaid — 13 years ago(May 15, 2012 03:00 PM)
I agree, I think the ending was showing that however much we want happy Hollywood endings to happen, they don't always in real life, and Cecilia watching Top Hat at the end shows her preference to live in fantasy.
"I re-evaluated our lives. I got a 10, you got a 6" -
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Lancer01 — 10 years ago(September 22, 2015 11:13 PM)
i was thinking she finish's the Fred Astaire movie. everyone leaves even the projector crew. she walks up to the projector room, sees the Cairo movie wrapped up out to mail but not sent out yet. plays the movie on the projector, Baxter see's her, and she goes back into the movie happily ever after.
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Woodyanders — 4 years ago(December 21, 2021 01:15 AM)
I think the ending for this film was perfect. It made a great point on how there's a stark contrast between harsh reality and gentle fantasy.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.