And Then There Were None Ending

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One of the major examples of when the directors did not follow the storyline is the ending. In the original ending of And Then There Were None, Vera Claythorne hanged herself and it was just that. She did it on her own will. In the movie, there is a pretty big difference. Vera comes back to the house after helping Lombard fake his death and see’s Justice Wargrave playing a game of pool. They have a talk about how he managed to pull off this scheme and how Vera is to be killed next. Wargrave wants Vera to hang herself and tries to convince her by saying that public hanging’s are gruesome but she does not comply most likely because Lombard still lives. He kills himself with a poisonous drink while Lombard comes in and his last words are, “Never …show more content…

I guess the major impact in this is that Lombard is still alive and that this is a good ending. I enjoy it because it’s a lot better than Vera just hanging herself. This is a completely different ending which is huge towards the story so once again, pretty big impact. Very good ending indeed. This change was most likely added because people would like it a lot better. Another example of a change that was included in the movie is how the movie plays out. Some of the parts are switched and different things happened before that were not in the novel. One would be the characters. Justice Wargrave had his name changed to something that I don’t remember and the guy who ran over the kids is now a prince who ran over two people instead. He still died the same way though and while we are on the topic of death, let’s speak of Mr. Rogers. In the book, he was exploring the attic when suddenly a bear clock falls on his head and kills him. In the film, this is quite different. He is outside with his binoculars. He sees something that catches his eye. He finally understands it all, but then he is crushed by a brick figure. I think the director put this in because it made more sense with where the story line was

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