Ok, you can probably figure it out. But if you’ve neither read the book, read the screenplay or seen the movie (all of which apply to us; though one of our writers did read the script), you might be slightly surprised to hear how Peter Jackson’s “The Lovely Bones” ends or at least how one major character dies.
‘Lovely Bones’ follows the story of deceased victim Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) as she lives in a magical purgatory world, but struggles between her dichotomous desires for vengeance against her murderer (Stanley Tucci) and hopes for her family to grieve and rebuild their lives (Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon and Rose McIver.)
What happens to Tucci’s pervy pedophile character, the guy who kills and murders the 14-year-old Ronan character? Don’t read on if you don’t want to know. The spoiler? Told by Peter Jackson himself.
After test screenings, apparently the audience felt unsatisfied and wanted more… revenge.
“[we] basically add more violence and suffering”. “[The audience] wanted far more violence. They just weren’t satisfied.”Viewers were particularly exercised about a scene in which a man falls off a cliff. “We got a lot of people telling us that they were disappointed with this death scene, as they wanted to see [the character] in agony and suffer a lot more,” said Jackson. “We had to create a whole suffering death scene just to give people the satisfaction they needed.”
So we guess Tucci’s character falls of a cliff and dies, huh? Great, thanks Peter. Honestly we were hoping a winged “Delgo”-dragon from Susie’s afterworld would have swooped down and flown him to justice, incarcerating him in a Swiss prison. Ah well… there’s always “Invictus” which we’re pretty sure ends with Mandela being championed as the supreme chancellor of Earth.