Why didn't Alan and Sarah destroy the Jumanji board game?
I just recently watched Jumanji on HBO. Considering what happened in the year 1995, the events were drastically tragic, especially to the main characters. When Alan and Sarah beat the game they were reset back in 1969. Afterward, they decided to throw the game off a bridge into a river down below. At this point, they are both well aware of the consequences of someone finding the board, but they still just throw that sucker back into the water and go about their lives. Wouldn't it have made sense to destroy it or at least become sworn protectors and make sure that no one makes the same mistake? As we can see in the ending of the film that two kids are walking on the beach and hearing the drum sounds of Jumanji. You know, I watched this several times when I was a kid but the film is already 25 years old. When I go deep into the movie, I wonder why no one asks or wonders why didn't they just destroy the game considering the damage that had been. Also covered in cinemablend.
Best Answer
The movie was intended to be open-ended, like the source material. The children's book it was based on ended with the main characters seeing two neighbors finding the board game and bringing it home. The movie had many variations from the original story, however. As the Wiki from the book states:
Jumanji, a 1995 film based on the story, is an adaptation of the picture book. Unlike the short story, the film has adult characters that did not appear in the original short story like Alan Parrish (Robin Williams/Adam Hann-Byrd), Sarah Whittle (Bonnie Hunt/Laura Bell Bundy), Officer Carl Bentley (David Alan Grier), Aunt Nora (Bebe Neuwirth) and a big-game hunter named Van Pelt (Jonathan Hyde who also portrayed Alan's father, Sam Parrish). Not only is Alan Parrish the main protagonist instead of Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce), but a background story is added, in which the game trapped Alan in the jungle many years earlier while he and Sarah were playing back in 1969. Danny and Walter Budwing from the end of the original book do not appear in the film. Also in the film, Judy and Peter are orphaned after their parents died in a car accident in Canada and their aunt is now their legal guardian. Other changes are that the animals wreak havoc all over town, Peter transforming into a monkey while trying to cheat and Alan ultimately winning the game instead of Judy with everything including time restored back to the way it was before. The drumbeats in the game are also heard far away, which never happened in the book.
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What happened to the Jumanji board game?
Yes, but it's only played again after it's transformed into a video game. The 2017 sequel film Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle shows that the Jumanji board game was indeed found on the beach, as we see at the end of the first film.Why was Alan sucked into Jumanji?
After Alan inadvertently rolls a five, a message tells him to wait in a jungle until someone rolls a five or eight, and he is sucked into the game.How did Alan Parrish get out of Jumanji?
They too were coaxed into playing the game and unintentionally released Alan after Peter rolled a five, as well as a Lion.Did the kids remember Jumanji?
Alan and Sarah immediately return to when the game first began back in 1969. They remember everything that happened, but when they make it to 1995 and meet Judy and Peter again, the kids have no memory of their time playing Jumanji together. In Jake Kasdan's 2017 film, however, the rules seem a little different.Why Didn't You Stop Me?
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