The End

[Melanie Trede]

>Dear Melanie
>>
>La belle equipe (France 1936) Julien Duvivier
>The first ending - the sad one - has been changed after the film failed at
>the box office. The more happy ending is the one seen today and everywhere.
>You find something about the two endings in "Dictionnaire du cinema", Les
>Films, Jacques Lourcelles, Editor: Robert Laffont, Paris 1992. The french
>state Television FRANCE 3's "Cinema de minuit" on sunday midnight showed
>the two endings some five years ago. 
>
>But you will find even more double endings in Hollywood. Almost every film
>there has a changed ending because of the preview-system. See especially
>for the great directors from abroad like Fritz Lang for example.
>
>Have you already found some Japanese examples? I would be interested.
>
>Thanks 
>
>Bye

>Roger

Dear Roger,

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me.
I will check on the films you kindly mentioned.
No, I haven't found any Japanese examples yet, but I am sure, there must be
plenty around.
I am researching Japanese narrative painting history and know fairly little
about film. But the two genres - film and narrative painting - are
comparable in many aspects and I want to find examples that are easier to
understand than 17th century Japanese artifacts.

For my purposes it is not so important to have Japanese examples, even if
it would be very nice to have some around. It is the principle of the
importance to find a suitable ending for a story, which I am interested in.
And that these endings change according to the needs of viewers/spectators,
the producers or the time period etc. in which the films/paintings are
produced.

 Thanks again for your support--if there are Japanese film examples on this
problem, you'll be informed.

best,
Melanie