re: IT COULD HAVE SAVED THE FILM!!! (Rent Alternate Ending)
The producers were just trying to show the ending in the play so they made the actual ending and the alternate one. On stage both of those happen. When i think of how the move was made i want to think about how Johnathan Larson would have wanted it because this was totally his creation. The producers of the movie worked closely with his family so i think that the final product is most likely what Larson would have wanted.