rec.arts.movies.past-films

In article < @ >,
Halmyre wrote:

> In article < @ -
> >, ANIM8Rfsk@ says...
> > In article < @ >,
> > Halmyre wrote:
> >
> > > In article , schultr@
> > > says...
> > > > As we all know, the general plot arc of the boy-meets-girl genre is
> > > > either
> > > > that at the end, the two of them are together, presumably to live
> > > > happily
> > > > (or unhappily) ever after, or one or both of them has (have) met a
> > > > tragic
> > > > death. During a bout of jet-lag-induced insomnia, I was wondering in
> > > > how
> > > > many movies do the hero and heroine are both alive at the end of the
> > > > movie,
> > > > but do *not* end up together, EXCLUDING movies in which one or both of
> > > > them
> > > > return(s) to a marriage that existed before the events in the movie
> > > > began.
> > > > Note that (this is my game, so I get to make up the rules) movies of
> > > > the
> > > > character-A-has-crush-on-character-B-but-ends-up-with-character-C genre
> > > > are excluded as well.
> > > >
> > > > I came up with
> > > >
> > > > _Roman Holiday_
> > > > _The Umbrellas of Cherbourg_
> > > > _Tom Jones_ (I think -- I don't remember if the 1964 film keeps the
> > > > book's
> > > > ending, or if I'm mixing it up with the 1997 miniseries)
> > > > _The Sterile Cuckoo_
> > > > _Annie Hall_
> > > > _Manhattan_
> > > > _The Purple Rose of Cairo_
> > > > _Gorky Park_
> > > > _Broadcast News_
> > > > _Love's Labour's Lost_
> > > >
> > > > But I'm sure that there are many more.
> > > >
> > > > Do any of the film adaptations of _The Count of Monte Cristo_ keep the
> > > > book's ending?
> > > >
> > >
> > > "Heaven Can Wait" (Warren Beatty version)
> >
> > I'm confused; are you saying the boy loses the girl at the end of Heaven
> > Can Wait ('cause he doesn't) or are you saying Heaven Can Wait is an
> > adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo?
> >
> >
>
> Beatty loses the girl because he's reincarnated in somebody else's body
> - but with the other person's memories. It seemed pretty pointless -
> Beatty wanders around the film looking for another body to take over -
> but in the end his persona is gone anyway.
>
> So the girl gets the boy, but the boy doesn't get the girl...

I've never liked that he forgets who he was at the end. It seems sort
of a cheat, and certainly makes all that they went through to find him a
new body pointless -- why bother if you're going to erase his mind
anyway? But it's supposedly still him in there even if he's unaware of
it.

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