28 Days Later -- alternate ending

[Shadowdancer]

Next Friday (July 25), an alternate ending to the movie "28 Days Later" is being added to copies in theaters. It will be added on after the credits.

This ending is already available on the European DVD.

 

[Numion]

SPOILER for normal ending


In the normal version I'm a little baffled that the voice of the pilot that finds them (heard on the radio) is finnish. He says "Lähetätkö helikopterin" pretty clearly, which means "Send a helicopter". WTF, are they suddenly moved to Finland?

Just my opinion.

 

[SteelDraco]

Anybody know what the alternate ending is? I enjoyed the movie, but not really enough to go see it again with a different ending.

 

[Tewligan]

Anybody know what the alternate ending is? I enjoyed the movie, but not really enough to go see it again with a different ending.

Dunno, but I read that it's more of a downer than the current ending is.

 

[Frostmarrow]

The alternate ending is on the European DVD.

Spoiler


It's pretty silly as the movie ends with the bicycle guy being replaced with a hen in the last scene at the cottage. Basically it implies that he dies.

Oh, it's more to it than that. Earlier it shows how the girls triy to bring him back to life in a hospital setting and how he experiences (in a dream) the transition into being dead. The psychodelic dream ends with him getting hit by a truck.

There is also an alternate ending of the mansion scene that is more zombie-esque. Hundreds of zombies reach the manse and mangages to break down the barricades. They swarm the building killing everything (except the bicycle guy and the girls.)

None of the alternate scenes are worth the trouble.

 

[Shadowdancer]

SPOILER for normal ending


In the normal version I'm a little baffled that the voice of the pilot that finds them (heard on the radio) is finnish. He says "Lähetätkö helikopterin" pretty clearly, which means "Send a helicopter". WTF, are they suddenly moved to Finland?

Just my opinion.

SPOILER

No, the outside world is searching the British Isles for survivors. The Rage didn't spread much past the British Isles, so the rest of the world has just been waiting for the zombies to die out, and rescuing any isolated non-infected survivors they find.

 

[Pielorinho]

SPOILER

No, the outside world is searching the British Isles for survivors. The Rage didn't spread much past the British Isles, so the rest of the world has just been waiting for the zombies to die out, and rescuing any isolated non-infected survivors they find.

Continuing Spoiler:




While this is the likeliest outcome, there's always the possibility that the helicopter is a gunship -- that they want to make sure there are no primates left alive on the British Isles that might harbor the disease. My biggest problem with the movie (and it's a pretty small problem) is that I wish this had been left a little bit more ambiguous.

Daniel

 

[ArcOfCorinth]

The gunship so should have opened fire on them.

 

[Pielorinho]

On the other hand, I gotta say that I don't think the happy ending seemed tacked on. Indeed, the existence of life beyond England was pivotal in the movie: the protagonist's transformation from easygoing, gentle victim to savage, murderous warrior occurred in the moment that he saw an airplane flying overhead, indicating that there was something worth fighting for (i.e., that the world wasn't doomed).

I think the movie was more about how people can turn into monsters than, well, than how people turn into Monsters. The protagonist and the soldiers both had what they considered the future of their species at heart when they became so horrifying, and it was interesting seeing what it took to drive the protagonist over the edge.

I'd love to be back in college and write a paper on what zombie movies say about the era in which they're made, similar to a piece I did on the various versions of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. Ah, to be a pop-studies academic!

Daniel

 

[KChagga]

Just saw this movie and thought it was great. I loved the cinematography in this movie. The soundtrack was quite earily fitting. Just odd enough to put an edge to most of the scenes that something isn't quite right.
I thought for sure that the alternate ending was going to be the plane looping back around and then gunning down the survivors. Can't risk the infection spreading in unheard of ways, now can we.
Anyone know of anyother projects this director is working on. I think he did a bangup job on this one and would like to see more from him.