AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY New Ending?

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 11:53am

It seems as though the movie audiences don't like the original ending of the play/film so there is talk of changing it to make it more upbeat. Oh brother!
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[Mark-o]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 11:56am

so sad!

[crushgroove]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 11:58am

Happy endings are bull****

[sbflyfan]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 12:04pm

I'm highly confused... I saw the play on tour and remember Violet sitting upstairs in the attic on the bed, with the nurse holding her and humming a song, then a fadeout.

Isn't that what they're calling the "alternate ending"?

[RippedMan]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 12:05pm

I'm confused by both endings? Didn't the play end with her screaming for her nurse not her just sitting alone?

[OperaBwayLover]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 12:51pm

And this is how we got stuck with the BS ending for the 1925 Phantom of the Opera- audiences didn't like the original ending that was closer to the book, so we had to see the Phantom get punished. Also the BS ending for the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire. Why do people always think they have to change something that works fine on its own?

[RippedMan]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 1:14pm

I say who cares! it worked for all the audiences on Broadway. Why change it now? It's not meant to be an uplifting story.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 1:17pm

I think it should end with Amy Morton showing up at the house and saying "Sorry I'm late. Did I miss anything?"

[JRybka]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 1:18pm

It doesn't sound like they are going to change it too too much. I mean other then her being all alone or calling out for a nurse.

[ljay889]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 1:19pm

The final moment of the play was one of my favorite moments of the entire thing.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 1:19pm

How did it end on Broadway? Wasn't she on the top level yelling for the nurse?

[winston89]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 1:24pm

If I recall correctly, she's on the lower level with the nurse in her attic room reading. She then slowly makes her way upstairs and the nurse comforts her.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 1:28pm

This is one of those plays where you clap for the house, you enjoy the performances, but nobody can remember anything specific about it except for a funny line at the end of a dinner confrontation.

[Joviedamian]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 1:29pm

When I saw the tour in San Francusco, she runs up the stairs to the attic when the nurse is already sitting on her bed and Violet comes towards her. Violet sobs in the arms of the nurse, like a baby and the nurse sings softly as the lights fade out! That's the ending I saw!

[madbrian]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 1:35pm

Bruce Willis' character was dead all along. Have I said too much?

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 1:46pm

Both performances I saw ended with Violet abandoned by her family but ultimately up in that tiny room at the top of the set being comforted by the nurse. Who knows what they're going to do with the film.

Updated On: 9/11/13 at 01:46 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 1:55pm

I think it should end with Violet getting into her car while a shirtless Kurt Russell waves goodbye to her then following her down a dark street while she's driving and listening I herself sing "Amazing Grace".

[tazber]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 2:04pm

I remember it cutting to black in the middle of a sentence.

It sticks out in my mind because James Gandolfini was in the audience and he stood and yelled "what a ****ty way to end something!"

[sbflyfan]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 2:08pm

I think she should be alone, but suddenly her house gets overrun by a vengeful flock of parakeets.

Updated On: 9/11/13 at 02:08 PM

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 4:32pm

This is one of those plays where you clap for the house, you enjoy the performances, but nobody can remember anything specific about it except for a funny line at the end of a dinner confrontation.

I don't even remember that funny line. I just remember the uneven dialogue, the kitchen sink approach to family dysfunction, and wondering when the thing would ever end. If the film is making changes, I'm all for it as long as it includes cutting the script by at least a third.

[Kad]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 4:39pm

I love that closing monologue:

"Violet had no resistance to the bacteria in our atmosphere to which we have long since become immune. Once she had breathed our air, germs, which no longer affect us, began to kill her. The end came swiftly. All over the world, her machines began to stop and fall. After all that men could do had failed, Violet was destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things, which God, in His wisdom, had put upon this Earth."

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 6:18pm

I hope they use the ending where the plant eats all of New York City!

'cause that was cool.

[brldisteach2]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 7:39pm

Eat the fish eat the fish eat the fish!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 7:41pm

A friend of mine told me the new ending they're thinking of borrows heavily from the end of SE7EN.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/11/13 at 7:43pm

I think they should do it like "Clue," where you get a bunch of different endings depending on if Mrs. Peacock shows up with a wrench.