What was the original ending and why was it changed?
The movie
The Butterfly Effect (2004) has multiple and very different endings. Specifically there appears to be two factors on the main character's decision:
- Save his girlfriend's life
- Save his girlfriend's life and mother's life.
I found it weird that the first ending would not compromise the other (it's like a happy ending where the viewer doesn't know what happened to his mother or to the main character's "gift")
After checking on the web and discussing with others I am not sure which was the original intended ending.
Is it reported anywhere why the need to dramatically change the ending?
Best Answer
There are 4 different endings:
Theatrical Ending:
Evan travels back to the birthday party where he first meets Kayleigh and whispers to her "I hate you and if you ever come near me again I'll kill you and your whole damn family." Kayleigh runs away crying.
After a montage of his memories disintegrating, Evan returns to present day in the dorm room with Lenny, and the two of them burn all of Evan's journals.
Eight years pass. One day, Evan and Kayleigh (Amy Smart) are walking down a street, going in opposite directions. When they pass each other, they seem to recognize each other for a second but keep walking away.
Alternate Ending 1:
Same as Theatrical Ending, only Evan turns and follows Kayleigh.
Alternate Ending 2:
Same as Alternate Ending 1 only Evan and Kayleigh talk to each other.
Director's Cut:
At the end, while Evan has barricaded himself in the office, he starts playing a home movie his father made just as his mother was giving birth to him. Evan travels back into his mother's womb and strangles himself with the umbilical cord.
Said to be the original ending but, because it did poorly with the screening audience, the theatrical ending was chosen for cinema release.
The Director's Cut has quite a few more additional scenes.
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Answer 2
I don't quite get what you meant by,
I found it weird that the first ending would not compromise the other (it's like a happy ending where the viewer doesn't know what happened to his mother or to the main character's "gift")
Anyway, the way I understood is this:
The original ending was the ending which Evan was in a psychiatric hospital- he is in a really depressed state as he is fully aware that it is he who killed his girlfriend, Kayleigh. What the doctor said was true- Evan was making alternate realities in his mind to escape his guilt about killing her (he throwed the dynamite at her father, but it landed beneath her).
But then he steals the earliest home-movie tape in which he had met Kayleigh for the the first time in his life (the real one)- at a party. He then "travels" into the scene (for real) and then blames Kayleigh (says he hates her, etc, etc.), thus avoiding ever meeting her and playing with her- and the dynamite scene and child abuse (by her father) would never have happened in the first place. And consequently, Evan would not be crazy, his other friends would be good in life, and he would have led a normal college life.
This is not based on real facts, but is the way I interpreted the movie and understood it.
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