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Title: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 30, 2017, 03:07:27 PM
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I saw The Village in the theater when it first came out. At the time I enjoyed most of it, but the ending was kinda meh to me. The more time that has gone by, the worse the ending has become. It's just distinguished mentally-challenged, let's be real. And thus I have spent much of the last decade trying to figure out a better ending, that could exist without making any major changes to the rest of the film. Well after much thought and consideration I finally figured it out this year.

Picture this: young, blind Ivy enters the woods with her companions, who abandon her. She is confronted by a hooded being, and ultimately manages to trick it into falling into a deep ditch. Just as in the original, the culprit is revealed to be the simpleminded Noah Percy.

She exits the forest and comes across a paved road, and eventually hears a foreign sound (a car driving by). Just as in the original. A security guard walks up to Ivy and asks what she's doing, tells her she's not supposed to be there etc; the camera only reveals the legs and torso of the security officer. Ivy explains her plight, asks for medications etc and asks if he will help her. At this point the camera pans up to reveal:

SPOILERS

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It's an ape. This is a Planet Of The Apes soft reboot. Ivy can't see him, so she assumes he's a man. The village commune was founded by a group of humans who were forced to entertain the apes in the big city. They ran away and founded the village, far away from the apes. The security guard ape takes pity on Ivy and gives her the medications, then quietly helps her return to the forest. The end.

I feel this ending is FAR better than the original and is actually a twist that makes you go oh shit. It's also kinda like two twists because not only is it really present day, it's ALSO apes.
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:trumps

I haven't shared this with many people, but I'm pretty confident this is the best idea I've had in my life.
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: VomKriege on November 30, 2017, 03:17:25 PM
It's missing a Lincoln Memorial.
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: nachobro on November 30, 2017, 03:24:55 PM
It's not worse, so that's something
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: Syph on November 30, 2017, 03:30:37 PM
harambe died for this
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: Mr. Gundam on November 30, 2017, 03:36:58 PM
Needs more Mupepe.
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 30, 2017, 03:37:20 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/lPR6HNh.gif)
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 30, 2017, 03:44:03 PM
Directed by Ron Howard
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: toku on November 30, 2017, 05:55:29 PM
movie is fine without your fix
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: Bebpo on November 30, 2017, 06:28:04 PM
That’s amazing  :o
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: team filler on November 30, 2017, 06:28:32 PM
mastapiece

can the security guard ape be Bad Ape? Love that guy.
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: bork on November 30, 2017, 09:40:56 PM
SHAKESPEARE!  :clap :clap :clap

I'M TELLING YOU, THAT BOY IS A GENIUS! 
:playa

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S6vk9K2Cwo
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Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: Steve Contra on November 30, 2017, 09:46:39 PM
God damn I reflexively went with "What's wrong with you?" because you're trying to fix a mediocre movie from 13 years ago but honestly after reading that I would've been much happier in a stoned "what the fuck was that shit?" way.

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Still, what is wrong with you?
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Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 30, 2017, 10:25:22 PM
Good to see so many people agree with my vision  :doge

I'd argue this is nearly as good of a twist as the original Planet Of The Apes ending. Completely throws you for a loop and makes you question the entire film.
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: benjipwns on December 01, 2017, 03:35:12 AM
M. Night "unfixed" The Village, he re-shot a whole bunch of scenes, especially related to the ending, after the script leaked. The movie originally ended with Ivy climbing over the wall and then a shot revealing it was the present day and nothing else. No backstory, no elders council or any of that.

So who's the real genius savant here? You or the man who allowed you to spend a decade coming up with this idea in the first place? :thinking
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: benjipwns on December 01, 2017, 03:35:46 AM
no fun allowed :bolo
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: Yeti on December 01, 2017, 07:27:45 AM
Quote from: benjipwns on December 01, 2017, 03:35:12 AM
M. Night "unfixed" The Village, he re-shot a whole bunch of scenes, especially related to the ending, after the script leaked. The movie originally ended with Ivy climbing over the wall and then a shot revealing it was the present day and nothing else. No backstory, no elders council or any of that.

So who's the real genius savant here? You or the man who allowed you to spend a decade coming up with this idea in the first place? :thinking

Did the script really leak, or were people just able to easily guess what the twist was? I know I did about ten seconds into the trailer.
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: TakingBackSunday on December 01, 2017, 10:59:09 AM
My record of never even seeing a single scene of this movie is holding strong
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 01, 2017, 11:13:35 AM
Roger Ebert spoiled the ending to this movie for me.

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Critics were enjoined after the screening to avoid revealing the plot secrets.

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Let us say that it takes place in an unspecified time and place, surrounded by a forest the characters never enter.

Oh, the twist is that it's really the present day. You coulda just said so and saved me to the 2 seconds of reading between the lines, Rog.
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: benjipwns on December 01, 2017, 11:28:02 AM
Quote from: Yeti on December 01, 2017, 07:27:45 AM
Did the script really leak, or were people just able to easily guess what the twist was? I know I did about ten seconds into the trailer.
along with wiki, did a bit of internet sleuthing on old websites that look like they once existed as pages within sites that had frames

seems a draft of the script leaked during shooting, not the final script but one close enough that after finishing and finding out about it M. Night had the sets rebuilt, and the cast recalled and they shot a bundle of new scenes

this being 2003-2004, the internet was still a thing the local news did stories about the World Wide Web, and most of the leak stuff was confined to movie/horror sites on the web, that said, this was M. Night's fourth major film in five years, so his twist endings were already well expected

found a thread on a horror message board from 2006 where they said M. Night had already jumped the shark with Signs and The Village's obvious twist endings but that may be revisionist snobbery

remember when we said things jumped the shark instead of being sharkfight milk steaks?
Title: Re: After more than a decade, I fixed The Village
Post by: Risible on December 02, 2017, 01:43:39 PM
Most of my friends guessed the ending fairly easily without any spoilers leaks.  He was well known for twists by then so everyone was looking for it, which of course makes it very hard to disguise.

Now, Sixth Sense, I saw that the first day it came out and it blew my fucking mind.