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In Reply to: Last Tango in Paris (ending revealed) posted by warrenh@optonline.net on February 1, 2005 at 02:54:35:
Let’s see….there’s this guy who is mumbling self-indulgent, pseudo-intellectual, angry crap, his excuse being his wife just killed herself (entirely understandable she did).Then there’s this dumb chick (maybe she’s just young and confused, but “bimbo” was mentioned a few times in the film) who seemed to dig all this pretentious nonsense, so they kept meeting up for sex in a rented Paris apartment. (By the way, the actress playing the role seemed to equate emotions with shouting her lines.)
One day he snapped out of his supposed grieving and started behaving like the flirty middle-age bloated balding asshole that he is. The girl got bored (what took her so long?) and tells him to shove-off . He doesn’t get the hint (can’t really blame him, after all, the girl said ‘No! No! No!’ many times before and CAME BACK for more). So he kept pestering her. Finally, she’s had it and shot the geezer dead.
(Although not shown on film, I think she got away with the homicide - by claiming attempted rape.)
Follow Ups:
Don't you think Jeanne (Maria) was over reacting just a tad murdering MB? Where in her personality in the movie do we get, even an inkling, that she is capable of murder? She's a cutie with a great tush, bubbly, fun, passionate, sexual with no hint of a temper or hostility. Now, all of a sudden, after he tells her, quite tenderly, that he loves her: bang!! Don't get it...What was Bertolucci thinking?
less of temper or hostility, more of fear and loathing. I mean, she's got a psycho, balding guy stalking her all the way back to her apartment. (The earlier trysts were all in a neutral, non-committal rented room.)In her eyes, he did not become 'nice' or 'tender' in the latter part of the film. He became mundane, ordinary, loathsome.
Anyway, I don't disagree with you. I think the film is full of shit anyway. Maybe, in the 70's, people went to see it for it's graphic sexual content. But now there are less encumbered sources.
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