clerks 2

[big screen satellite]

Originally Posted by sunflowereye

For KS it was probably a wise choice, considering this was one of his first theatrical releases; however, in hindsight, the downer ending seems more fitting. Dante's character was this big whiner ("I'm not even supposed to be here today!") who took little effort to better his life(return to school, get out of dead-end job, focus on girl who loved him). His violent death in the director's cut, while terrible, seems fitting with the original script. Like Randal points out earlier, he should've told his vacationing boss to shove it and stayed home.

oh yeah, in the scheme of things, Dante kinda deserved to have something terrible happen to him, especially as he was screwed over and did nothing about it...but his getting wasted at the end is kinda out of whack with the rest of the movie's 'lighter' tone and really doesn't fit right...although KS probably wanted to show just how bad Dante's day got by killing him off at the end, but you are right as a first movie that ending might have spoiled its cinematic release.

i do like the directors cut of Clerks, and almost all directors cuts because i think thats how they originally intended the film to be, and i think thats how they should be shown...smoothing over cracks or imperfections just to suit theatre goers is kinda like soft censorship..."you're movie won't go down well if you leave it like that", thank god for DVD editions eh

i know some movies need to be changed because 'reactions' at test screenings are poor, but then if you've made a poor movie, tough, if the audience don't like a sad ending then @@$& them - that's what i'd say, redoing it changes how the original movie is perceived and it becomes something that the director doesn't want...

take the new Vince Vaughan and Jennifer Aniston movie, called "The Break Up"... apparently test screenings showed that the audience didn't like the ending where they broke up...WHAAAAT...its called "the break up"...thats the whole story ruined, apparently they had to refilm it with a happier ending... defeats the object kinda eh?