The Ending of Orson Welles' The Trial

[@redants77]

I really cannot think of a reason why to change the end so drastically

[@Hal9000ize]

I mean, you couldn't really show someone getting stabbed so brutally in 1962

[@Kyle-uw4cc]

He said in an interview he felt he couldn’t keep an ending without hope after the Holocaust

[@BatsIndignant]

Welles improved it.

[@gregor-samsa]

answer for different ending by Orsen given in interview...25 minutes 30 in kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJO4lmCYgpuVjsk

[@christianpetersen163]

I like this ending better than the original because stabbing someone through the heart is an action that has a degree of directness, competence and closure involved, and the system in The Trial is defined by it's mazelike bureaucracy, incompetence, endless procedures and inaction. Using a a couple o' sticks o' dynamite to probably kill the condemned - that's more fitting.

[@retarazao9600]

Not so, if the effect was meant to be a contrast between life in a maze and direct, sudden death...

[@wellesfan2092]

@@retarazao9600 But there isn’t a contrast. Welles is just emphasizing the cowardice and magnanimity lying at the heart of the system oppressing Josef K. In a way, he gives a weirdly hopeful ending, because in the way the executioners kill K, one sees glimpses of the system’s own inevitable destruction: Any system that lacks integrity cannot stand.

[@fabiolaandrea5381]

It was an alternative ending but it made sense anyway! The whole movie was so well connected to the book that adding this other way of death it's not so different. His last sentence was not spoken but that insane arrogant laugh at the end said it all.

[@hameddrughi]

what a music

[@retarazao9600]

Albinoni's Adagio

[@roseflower9794]

Anthony Perkins

[@gusztavosantonella486]

Hatalmas nagy film.

[@BatsIndignant]

y'all, Kafka doesn't care that he changed the ending. Chill.

[@TonyPerkins90]

This end is obviously made with purpose of saying how all struggle with the system is pointless and meaningless, absurd. Josef K. (A. Perkins) did this being desperate, wanting to end it all, once and for all, that's why he is laughing in schizophrenic manner...possibly saying in that laughter, you won, but you won't be the one to finish me off, I'll do it by myself. It's me who's making decision this time. If you see in the whole movie, he was either uninterested in everything what was going on or ignoring the situation and finally giving up, letting to be taken to the execution place...and finally realizing that this is the end, he wakes up and kill himself. Anyhow, as Orson Welles said...logic of this story is logic of a dream...nightmare.

[@plutovenus4101]

Big fan of Welles. But this is such a stupid end!!!

[@BatsIndignant]

would you rather a man lie down like a dog and take his fate with no defiance?

[@gregor-samsa]

answer 25 minutes 30 in interview bu orsen himself... kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJO4lmCYgpuVjsk

[@samheadron7915]

Not really. Joseph K's tale is comparable to the life and death of Jesus Christ. The authorities sullied themselves in their inhumane and absurd mistreatment of this man thrown into a system where it doesn't matter that he's right.

[@skullmillione1389]

That was so stupid, why he couldn't get stabbed like in the book?