A better "ending" **SPOILER**
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Notting Hill
MovieHobbit — 9 years ago(September 05, 2016 01:16 AM)
In the end credits scene where it shows 2 kids running around in the park and then it pans to Anna and Williamwhere she is lying down pregnant.
Wouldn't it have been a BETTER ending to do that same panshow Anna and William with kids already (or simply pregnant like the actual ending)hanging out with the friend/disabled wife with KIDS OF THEIR OWN (assumed adopted)?
I never know why this film never gave the couple with the "disabled" wife an equally happy ending since she did bring up the fact she could never have kids -
Lester_Burnham_Risen — 9 years ago(September 05, 2016 04:06 PM)
A fine American ending [ho hum] but this is a Brit movie
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kampanagroup — 9 years ago(September 06, 2016 12:34 AM)
It might have a Brit cast and settingpretty good considering it's directed by a South African and written by a New Zealanderthat stole a lot from 1953's Roman Holiday ending(especially the last reporter scene) which was an American film.
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Lester_Burnham_Risen — 9 years ago(September 06, 2016 01:05 PM)
directed by a South African and written by a New Zealander
Exactly, non Americans so they have some class/culture
shoulda called it Roman Holiday Redux
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kampanagroup — 9 years ago(September 06, 2016 06:26 PM)
Do you have something against Americans or are you just an a55hat?
What a d0uche.
the fact of the matter is it IS an American ending. The "Brit" ending should have ended when William graciously says "no" to Anna. But the American "happy ending" is what happens, so when you're applauding "British" sensibilities, you're actually applauding American endings.
The ending of Roman Holiday (an AMERICAN film) ends realistically where the guy DOES NOT get the girl.
You use a thread from the OP that has NOTHING to do with American or British film-making to bash American sensibilities. I wouldn't be surprised if you were on other message threads that are thoroughly innocuous and use it as a springboard for a diatribe against American film-making.
So when you call it Roman Holiday Redux, and applauding the non-American sensibilitiesyou are being hypocritical because it's Roman Holiday that does NOT have the typical American ending and Notting Hill has the very ending that is prevalentin..wait for it.AMERICAN movies!
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louiseculmer — 9 years ago(September 09, 2016 02:57 PM)
well, that would be going rather a long way into the future. I assume at the end we are only meant to be a year or so on. It would be nice to think the disabled woman was able to have a child after all - people are always being told by doctors that they can't have children, and then getting pregnant. but the film after all is mainly about Anna and William, it can't show you what's happened to everyone. You need to use your imagination.