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The happy ending is quite different from the novel's ending in which Danny dies after a fall, and is totally in keeping with the optimistic, feel-good, MGM movies of that time.
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Philia weds Hero ; Pseudolus gets his freedom and the lovely slave girl Gymnasia ; Gloriosus receives twin courtesans to replace Philia ; Erronius gets his children, and a happy ending prevails for all — except for poor Senex, stuck with his shrewish wife Domina.
Universal was not happy with Raimi's cut because it did not like his original ending of the movie and felt that it was negative.
Further, the necessity to serve up a dubiously justified happy ending, although expected by audiences, actually has another effect of heightening the sense of falseness and contrived stories, underpinning the public's loss of belief in virtually anything any mass media says.
Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending ( the black comedy being an exception ).
Typically it can include a romantic element, an interplay between people of different economic strata, quick and witty repartee, some form of role reversal, and a happy ending.
Lead singer Chris Martin says, " It ’ s based on a love story with a happy ending.
This fourth play in his tetralogy for 438 BC ( i. e. it occupied the position conventionally reserved for satyr-plays ) is a ' tragedy ' that features Heracles as a satyric hero in conventional satyr-play scenes, involving an arrival, a banquest, a victory over an ogre ( in this case Death ), a happy ending, a feast and a departure to new adventures.
Bradbury, far from being displeased by this, was so happy with the new ending that he wrote it into his later stage edition.
In Rossini's time the tragic ending was so distasteful to the public of Rome that it was necessary to invent a happy conclusion to Otello.
As the lights went down, Groucho called out, " Does it have a happy ending?
Absent any love story or a happy ending, it was deemed a risky project.
And third, Tolkien suggests that fairy stories ( can ) provide moral or emotional consolation, through their happy ending, which he terms a " eucatastrophe ".
Here, in the wreathed Chi Rho the death and resurrection of Christ are shown as inseparable, and the Resurrection is not merely a happy ending tucked at the end of the life of Christ on earth.
However, the ballet's original happy ending ( contrary to Shakespeare ), caused the premiere to be postponed for several years.
We couldn't imagine a happy ending.
Macheath escapes this fate via a deus ex machina moments before the execution when, in an unrestrained parody of a happy ending, a messenger from the Queen arrives to pardon Macheath and grant him the title of Baron.
Nahum Tate as Poet Laureate had rewritten the tragedy of King Lear with a happy ending.
The ending parodies many classical operas, Don Giovanni in particular, by apparently ending in tragedy, then having a completely unmotivated happy ending.
* A redemptive plotline with a happy ending involving the re-uniting of long-separated family members ;
One of the tales, " Judar and His Brethren ", departs from the happy endings of previous variants and reworks the plot to give it a tragic ending instead, with the younger brother being poisoned by his elder brothers.
In less technical contexts, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness, as in " fairy tale ending " ( a happy ending ) or " fairy tale romance " ( though not all fairy tales end happily ).
* The finale was revised and extended, ending with a common-time reworking of " Oh happy the lily ", rather than a straight reprise as previously.
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It is by no stretch of the imagination a happy choice and the arguments against it as a practical strategy are formidable.
This happy, always smiling lad with the sunny disposition is our new Junior Mr. Canada -- Henri De Courcy.
It is not an entirely happy book, as Mrs. Fink soon becomes jealous of Alicia and, in retaliation, refuses to continue to scrape the algae off her glass.
It is a happy, buzzing crowd.
What matters is that while Fromm's reading of the data is not the only one possible, it is precisely the one we would expect from a writer who earnestly believes that every man can and ought to be happy and satisfied.
It seems to me, the first thing you've got to do, to be happy, is to face up to your problems, no matter what they may be.
Try to find out how happy he is with his wife, whether he plays around with women.
Willie's wonderful walloping Sunday -- four home runs -- served merely to emphasize how happy he is to be playing for Alvin Dark.
Mary is cheery and gay when her husband comes home in the evenings, and the children's bed-time is frequently preceeded by a session of happy, family rough-housing.
But in any case, one does not have to read very closely between the lines to realize that the situation is not regarded as a particularly happy one.
None of these countries is happy with these arrangements.
That is why the Bible commands you to `` Taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed ( happy ) is the man that trusteth in Him '' ( Psalm 34: 8 ).
The company which performed the Pulitzer Prize musical here last night and will repeat it twice today is full of bounce, the politicians are in fine voice, the chorines evoke happy memories, and the Little Flower rides to break a lance again.
The burden of Mr. Wesker's message is that people living close to the soil ( at least in England ) are not the happy, fine, strong, natural, earthy people city-bred intellectuals imagine.
Love and compassion are components of all forms of Buddhism, and are focused on all beings equally: love is the wish that all beings be happy, and compassion is the wish that all beings be free from suffering.
She is not herself from the aristocracy or landed gentry, but is quite at home among them ; Miss Marple would probably have been happy to describe herself as a gentlewoman.
A person is introduced to alcohol ( in some cultures this can happen at a relatively young age ), and the person enjoys the happy feeling it produces.
For ... a man should not be happy who is not holy.
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Abd al-Rahman probably was quite happy to see his call answered by waves of Umayyad faithful and family.
But when I'm traveling or going to other people's places I will be quite happy to eat vegetarian rather than vegan.
Initially Jeffries had no interest in the fight being quite happy as an alfalfa farmer.
She turns out to be exactly the right person to leave in charge there, as she does not wish for the power of the Fount of the Four Worlds herself, but is quite happy to prevent others using it, since gaining its power destroyed the last of Brand's humanity, and she appears to have genuinely loved him, and lost him to his power-lust.
We'd been playing most of those songs for quite a while, and we were just so happy to be making a record that we didn't really think a whole lot about making the songs better.
" People are quite happy believing the wrong things.
Eudaimonia depends on all the things that would make us happy if we knew of their existence, but quite independently of whether we do know about them.
" However, Hobbes is quite happy for the truth to be suppressed if necessary: if " they tend to disorder in government, as countenancing rebellion or sedition?
She lives alone and claims to be quite happy, when questioned on that subject by her drunken housekeeper, Alma ( Thelma Ritter ).
I sent the script back, and was offered the part of Sharon, which I was quite happy to take.
He was quite happy, saying at one point " Sim, the old girl's got her dancing slippers on tonight!
I learned subsequently that it was a tame bird, and we became friends and I got used to the idea: the bird would land on me and I was quite happy.
Some daily commuters felt the extra cost was unjustifiable, but most drivers were quite happy to pay in order to get some of the heaviest traffic out of the city centre.
All the years when life had been hard I had found it natural, if not easy, to fight ; but when life became easy and happy I was faced quite unexpectedly with a problem: I could not accept aimless happiness.
While Noddy is quite happy to be a toy, the citizens of Toyland are not sure that he actually is one.
I am now quite happy to be breaking up.
At its summit is a cottage where a rabbit tells them Nimmie Amee now lives, who seems quite happy.
Another behavior, quite common in happy Maus, has been described as " wiggle-tail.
When Shaw learns of their relationship, Jim is quite happy to move with Paul to New Orleans.
Leonard of Quirm ( the Discworld's Leonardo da Vinci ) " vanished " and now spends his time in an airy attic of the palace, quite happy to continue to invent in solitude and occasionally assisting when the City requires his genius ( e. g. during the events of Jingo and The Last Hero ).
His father is quite happy to send him off to probable death, having reasoned that this worst case scenario will keep Rabadash from usurping his own throne.
In other words, this Briton was now quite happy to concede Zambian territory to the Congo as a matter of convenience when that was not the case when the British or their proxies were ruling the territory.
Whatever the reason, it certainly brought forward the image of a happy, hearty, healthy, hard-working and pretty Welsh woman, who, quite probably, kept their families of Wales alive during difficult times.
In response to Chávez's endorsement, Chomsky told The New York Times that he would be " happy to meet " the Venezuelan President, asserting that he was " quite interested " in what his administration had achieved and thought many of Chávez's views to be " quite constructive.
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