The Village - wie war das ursprüngliche Ende?

[MadManniMan]

Ich kann mich entsinnen, mal davon gelesen zu haben, daß das Ende von The Village vorschnell ins Netz gelangte und deshalb nochmal völlig abgeändert wurde - weiß jemand davon?

[9800ProZwerg]

Weiß nur, dass die kurz vor Release ein neues Ende gedreht haben!
Würde mich auchmal interessieren wie das ursprüngliche war!

[darph]

Also der Herr M. Night Shyamalalaladingsbums dementiert, daß es ein anderes Ende geben soll

[9800ProZwerg]

Tut er nicht! Die mussten ein neues Ende drehen!

http://www.kino.de/newsvoll.php4?nr=155056
By the way:
M.Night Shyamalan ;)

[nggalai]

Posted by - speedwaypics on IMdb
(Sat Mar 5 2005 17:38:43)
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For all five of you who were waiting for it, it's finally here. I typed up all last five pages from the original Village script (back when it was still called "The Woods") for you to read.
I personally like it better than what's in the film.
Enjoy:


(the action picks up right after Ivy "bumps into" the fence)


EXT. HIGHWAY-AFTERNOON
WE ARE LOOKING THROUGH A TRUCK’S WINDSHIELD. WE SEE A DASHBOARD WITH A STYROFOAM CUP. WE SEE A HAND HOLDING A STEERINGWHEEL.
WE ARE MOVING ALONG A HIGHWAY lined on one side by forest. a ten-foot mesh fence covered over with vines and weeds borders the forest.
In the distance there is a SPOT OF WHITE climbing down the weed-covered fence.
WE ARE MOVING FAST. THE SPOT GETS LARGER.
THE WHITE SPOT turns into a figure dressed in white, which lands in the weeds at the side of the highway.
THE FIGURE IN WHITE IS A GIRL. SHE STEPS OUT IN FRONT OF THE TRUCK.
THE DELIVERY TRUCK SWERVES TO AVOID HER; IT SWERVES INTO THE ONCOMING LANE AND LOSES CONTROL.
THE TRUCK ARCS IN THE ROAD; THE SCREAM OF BRAKES SHATTERS THE AIR.
The truck comes to a stop in the middle of the highway.
We hear a SNAP as the truck door opens.
THE TRUCK DRIVER gets out.
He looks frusterated and walks to the girl who stands in the middle of the highway.

TRUCK DRIVER
I didn’t see you-

The striking looking girl stands with her hands at her ears.

TRUCK DRIVER
Are you hurt?

The girl slowly lowers her hands. She stares in his direction.

GIRL
What was that noise?

TRUCK DRIVER
What are you doing out here?

Beat.

GIRL
Are you from the towns?

The young truck driver looks at the white girl’s old-fashioned clothing for the first time.

TRUCK DRIVER
Where did you come from?

Beat.

GIRL
The woods. You ought not to tell anyone.

TRUCK DRIVER
You need help or something?

GIRL
A doctor of medicine. I need to find these things.
We must hurry.

The girl holds out her hand. There is a dirty paper folded in it. The driver steps forward. He unfolds it.

Beat.

TRUCK DRIVER
I have two or three syringes in my first aid kit. You
can have them if you want.

GIRL
You have the things written on the paper?

TRUCK DRIVER
I think so.

(beat)

Is someone sick?

The girl suddenly has tears in her eyes. Beat. She nods, “yes.”


CUT TO:
EXT. GAS STATION-LATE AFTERNOON
The same large delivery truck sits at a small country gas station by the side of the highway.
The truck driver finishes filling the tank and walks to the tiny wood shingled building that serves as the gas station.
There is a bench outside the door to the shingled building. AND OLD WOMAN AND OLD MAN are seated there. They are weathered and fairly unpleasent to look at. They are wearing multiple coats each. Their bodies have kind of melted into the bench from years of sitting there.
The truck driver steps up.

OLD WOMAN
Twenty-five dollars please.

TRUCK DRIVER
Twenty-five?

OLD WOMAN
Pennsylvania Gas Tax.

TRUCK DRIVER
Oh.

He pulls the cash out of his wallet and hands it over.

TRUCK DRIVER
Pardon me, but what is that over there?

The truck driver points across the highway to the ten-foot fence covered in ivy and weeds that lines the road.

OLD WOMAN
Private property.

TRUCK DRIVER
Who lives there?

OLD WOMAN
No one. It’s for animals. Seventy-two thousand
acres of woods. No one’s loud to step foot in there.
They even got it fixed up so planes ain’t even
allowed over it.

TRUCK DRIVER
But who lives there now?

OLD WOMAN
No one. Ain’t you listening?

(beat)

Walker family owns it. But they ain’t none of
them left. They youngest son, a history proffesor
dissapeared some twenty-five years ago. They got
some estate watching over it now.

Beat.

The young driver stands thinking.

OLD WOMAN
Why are you all curious?

The three of them stare at each other. The truck driver looks like he’s going to say something. An eternal beat.

TRUCK DRIVER
Just curious.

The young truck driver nods and heads back to his delivery truck.

The old man turns to his wife.

OLD MAN
Pennsylvania Gas Tax?-- Good one Paula.

The old woman laughs in a phlegmy, hard laugh that shakes the bench.
The truck driver gets into the cab of his truck. He sees through the window the old couple laughing on the bench. He shakes his head.

TRUCK DRIVER
Crazy *beep* white people.

HE TURNS THE IGNITION ON and pulls away from the country gas station.
WE SEE his truck on the highway as it rides along the ten-foot fence that marks the preserve. The weed-covered wall goes on for as long as the eye can see. It stretches out till it disappears into the horizon, like some painting in a children’s book.
FADE TO BLACK

(end of film)

[MadManniMan]

Danke Sascha,
bemerkenswertes Ende, so man ja eigentlich bei den ganzen Gerüchten irgendwas "Großes" erwartet hätte. Unterm Strich fehlen die Alten und es wird nimmer gezeicht, wie die kleine zurückkommt. :|