Alternate endings

And part of the emulsion, the yellow layer of the emulsion, was ruined. And there was no way they could fix it. This precipitated later on in the process of editing, us going back and deciding to go back and shoot a different ending, not in Washington, but in another location.

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Make a long story short, we ultimately decided to stay with the original ending. And there is a cut coming up of Holly that in the film version is horribly distorted in color. There was no way with the technology of the time that we could restore the true color of the shot. And Jim finally decided to go with the distorted color.

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little knee sacks and white shoes. This was probably between Robert Shaye, the head of New Line and the producer of this film. This was our most contentious moment. Robert wanted Freddy to be driving this. And I simply refused. But it is still an extension of the original ending where Heather simply gets off the porch and goes off into the fog and the mother waves goodbye. But I felt...

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Jim Piddock

At the end, coming up here after she's turned the tables on the son of Zhivkov, if I may anticipate, at the end of the movie when she exposes her ignorance to him, what will he offer in the way of a wry appreciation for this upside-down state of affairs? Now just a feeble punchline shot long after the fact in order to replace the original ending. What is it he says now? Well, I'll give him your regards. Words to that effect, something very banal.

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