Yeah, there could have been an additional scene at the 'new Amberson mansion' with newlyweds Lucy and George welcoming Fanny home after rescuing her from the boarding house, but apart from affecting the running time, which was especially a factor for a double feature, it would also change the bleak ending that was part of Welles' theme of the film. I know he attempted to soften that theme, after the bad preview and at RKO's request, but it wasn't what he had in mind originally.
Not many happy endings in the ouvre, are there?
"Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost" -- and so can we - Film that helped sink Ambersons is back
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Hadji: You are too much!
You act as a mild corrective to Tony's sentimentality.
You are right, we would have to search hard among Welles' major films, with the exception F FOR FAKE, to find a happy ending. Even there, the beautiful finish is rather elegiac.
Very funny, Hadji . . . and saves me trouble. D
Glenn
You act as a mild corrective to Tony's sentimentality.
You are right, we would have to search hard among Welles' major films, with the exception F FOR FAKE, to find a happy ending. Even there, the beautiful finish is rather elegiac.
Very funny, Hadji . . . and saves me trouble. D
Glenn