28 days later, the ending message

Gregg Cattanach

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Jul 17, 2003, 2:26:59 PM7/17/03

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Was there some reason that they spelled HELO (or was is HELD) with the
bedsheets? Did they mean HELLO and ran out of material for the second L or
was the P in HELP too hard to do?

Not that it matters, just asking if anyone has an idea.

Gregg C.

Ken Carriere

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Jul 17, 2003, 3:08:53 PM7/17/03

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"Gregg Cattanach" <gcattana...@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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? In the version I saw, it said "HELLO". It started off as "HELL", and then
the three characters hurriedly add the "O" before the fighters flew over.

Gregg Cattanach

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Jul 17, 2003, 3:35:42 PM7/17/03

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"Ken Carriere" <k-car...@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> ? In the version I saw, it said "HELLO". It started off as "HELL", and
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> the three characters hurriedly add the "O" before the fighters flew over.
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I could have sworn I only saw one L, but with two L's that makes sense and
is sort of funny.

Gregg C.

Tweek

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Jul 17, 2003, 7:00:54 PM7/17/03

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Anytime Jim said "hello" in the movie, he was attacked. I think they chose
the have them say hello instead of help so that the audience would
subconsciously expect something bad to happen as the credits rolled.

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Sherri_lu

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Jul 17, 2003, 5:52:40 PM7/17/03

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helo is pretty much how the rest of the world spells it

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Wilfredo Simpson

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Jul 17, 2003, 8:27:05 PM7/17/03

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They were practicing their SMTP commands.

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Endymion9

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Jul 17, 2003, 10:30:45 PM7/17/03

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And i thought it was "HELP" that they spelled. The things you miss on first
viewing at the theatre.

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Anthony Buckland

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Jul 17, 2003, 11:35:33 PM7/17/03

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Endymion9 wrote:

>And i thought it was "HELP" that they spelled. The things you miss on first
>viewing at the theatre.
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It was "Hello". But I have a different question.

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Ok, the end shows that you really can quarantine a populous island
(we'll assume
a major roadblock was inserted into the Channel Tunnel) if a bug works
that fast
and produces symptoms making organizing an escape impossible (unreasoning
rage). Or there wouldn't be fighters in the sky from anywhere else.
So, the rest
of the world was still functioning, if scared silly and remorselessly
thorough in
their quarantine.

So why wasn't there anything else on the radio?

James Anatidae

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Jul 17, 2003, 11:52:44 PM7/17/03

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"Anthony Buckland" <buck...@direct.ca> wrote in message
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They were pretty deep inside England. Isn't that rather far to recieve a
commerical radio signal from Europe?

Plus the happy ending wasn't the original, it was tacked on after the main
shooting was over. I could see how'd they miss a small thing like that.

--
Gargoyles SETI@home group
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T

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Jul 18, 2003, 5:54:01 AM7/18/03

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Funny you mention that, because I just read that they are now going to
add on the new "darker" ending to the movie in the US:

http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=15678

Tallulah

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Jul 18, 2003, 10:46:33 PM7/18/03

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Sherri_lu wrote:

>helo is pretty much how the rest of the world spells it
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is it?

Where for instance?

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Tallulah

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Jul 18, 2003, 10:48:28 PM7/18/03

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What was the original ending?


Plus the happy ending wasn't the original, it was tacked on after the main
shooting was over.  I could see how'd they miss a small thing like that.

How would they change it?

M

  

James Anatidae

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Jul 18, 2003, 11:51:17 PM7/18/03

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"Tallulah" <t.h.s...@chello.nl> wrote in message
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> What was the original ending?

Please don't post in HTML.

*SPOILERS*

http://us.imdb.com/AlternateVersions?0289043

* In line with the alternate ending, there is a scene where Selena and
Hannah are in a hospital trying to save Jim's life afetr he is shot. A flash
of this scene where you see Selena sucking medicine into a syringe using her
teeth does appear briefly right after he has been shot but in this cut scene
Jim actually dies and it shows how much the girls fight to save him. The
scene was cut because all the test viewers expected Jim to wake up and
couldn't reconcile the fact he dies.
* Alternate Ending:
Based on the previous cut scene detailed where Jim dies after being shot,
the ending remains virtually the same with the obvious difference that Jim
is not there when the plane flies over and spots Selena and Hannah. You see
just prior to that Selena talking about breeding and the need to procreate
and as the camera pulls back you discover she is talking to a chicken.

T

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Jul 19, 2003, 12:54:26 AM7/19/03

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I'm all for a downbeat ending, but killing Jim is just dumb. The
movie isn't structured to have that kind of tragic ending.