It's beyond me why this movie gets me every time I watch it. I always cry at the end just like the first time I saw it. It brings out such deep emotions in me... I can't even describe it properly.
European version is the shit! USA version destroys all that is good about this movie.
True story always ending die - Ernest Hemingway; USA people it is childrens... stupid childrens who ignored true... in films, in law, in war, in earth.....
I didn't realise there was another version of the ending. This ending is the same as the director's cut dvd, which was in English. Is the ending different in the French version?
@musclefixer your kidding ! so did I. he was such a character as a puppy, so much personality we all treated him like a little person, part of the family, we took him everywhere even rock climbing. he wouldnt stop yapping and howling so I unleashed him, then he tried to scramble to the top and kept falling, so I clipped him into my harness and stuffed him in my pack. lol only took me a day or so to name him after seeing this movie I said, "your Enzo"!! if there ever was one. what a pooch !
just saw the european version ...when i saw it for the first time when i was a kid...i saw the american version...and use to think that its beautyfull cause to me its clear that he dies and goes up to his paradise...he is not rescued by the dolphin...why you people hate it so much?
I just watched the American ending and was so confused I consulted the Internet and found this ending. This seems like a better cutoff point but I need to see the whole original cut.
@Helloweenler No - the movie made it clear he couldn't survive...it's just that the American ending is a bit more symbolic than the down-to-earth European ending. In European version, he accepts death, lets go, and...nothing. In American version, he accepts death, lets go, and...goes to his paradise. But either way, he dies. Europeans just didn't get the symbolism and thought that the American version reinvented physics and physiology to let him live. ^_^
Ok, so having watched the USA version first, want to mention that I didn't think he lived - that depth was unrealistic, wasn't it? I took at as a metaphorical representation of him coming home - to death. The final scene of him with dolphin in sunlight begins exactly as when he "helped" the female dolphin - and the repetition hints at this being another vision, at best.
I do want to see the full version though. And the original soundtrack...
Beautiful ending for a beautiful movie, thanks Mister Besson for made a movie like that! Shame to the American Producer changed the ending for the us version
I think both Enzo's and Jacques' deaths aren't "deaths" in the end. Of course, speaking physically - yes. But it's like they have reached some kind of ultimate liberation or someting. Especially what Jacques does at the Euro end is something great, it's like not thinking "I got oxygen limit, I must go up", it's more of finding some sort of dimension to his deepest dreams and following it, shit I don't know if you get my point but that was awesome thing guys!
The ending is not like wow amazing neither was the US version. Americans just like a complete ending as in knowing what happen, doesn't mean it was a happier ending because you don't see or know he even dies.. You all Assume..However the original score is shit compared to the Bill Conti Music, sorry but the original score is truly pathetic
@scrubjay93 because they can't deal with how stuff would end unless it's imagined.. why do the live on McDonlands, KFC, believ that the NEXT president is going 2 fix it all whilst waving their little flags in hypnosis? Why do they not know anything about the rest of the world?? All that in itself is to try and solve the riddles of the ages..
@SuperTiredofitall Hey shit for brains, America is 50 different countries and cultures of people who defected from all the other countries of the world so when you're complaining about us you're just complaining about your own countrymen leaving to give a sentimentalized ending to a great movie. Out of the gate this movie wasn't intended for a country too young to have developed a need for ambiguous story endings like the French... And you're welcome for Youtube, enjoy it
@Wakipenda 33 countries under my belt, made or four different ethnicities, and more people to this day leave their country then people leave America to live anywhere else. 50 different cultures and economies from Hawaii to Alabama is impossible to homogenize into a singular statement that we are fat dumb and weak or scared. As a professional athlete for most of my life I've traveled to every state except New england. Sampled the worst and seen the best. Love Canada and Chile..so beat it
Why do execs always have to fuck with things? This is absolutely beautiful, a shame that it wasn't seen by the majority of people who watched it on its British and American release. Yet sadly there would be more tampering to come, in the form of the US cut of Leon and the pointless addition of La Femme to the title of Nikita (not to mention its various godawful remakes).
@PIFMan092 LOL, learn your history! They added "La Femme' to 'Nikita' because in America, Nikita brings to mind Nikita Kruschev and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and they didn't want to lose viewers over that. It would be like titling a movie about ballet 'Petain' and expecting French audiences to flock to the theater.
@AbsentWithoutLeaving I actually didn't know that (I'm not American, and in Britain history classes are quite crap). Regardless, it's a minor error and trivial in the sense that I wasn't complaining as much about the addition to the title of Nikita. Long story short, my comment was about how world cinema shouldn't be altered to attract a wider audience and how it should be presented in a way which is approved by the director. But yeah, I can see why the title was altered for US release.
@PIFMan092 I hear you, and I agree. But it's not just world cinema that's altered for a foreign audience. (And BTW, Besson made this movie in English...the French version is actually a dub). I hate the fact that studios pre-screen movies in front of test audiences and alter them according to the audience response. So many DVDs now include multiple versions of movies, and/or multiple endings. So which version is the 'real' one?
Oh dear - I had only seen the american ending. I didn´t know this is the original ending. And I have to agree - this ending is beautiful, the american version is.. well... :-/
I feel the same way. Best film ever... God this makes me cry my eyes out. I aspire to be a free diver when I'm older. The song at the end is also incredible.
You truly understand what this movie is about! To me this could be THE best movie ever. Its so beautiful. I highly recommend watching this movie alone with some weed to dive deeply into it. Avoid the american version like the plague!
este si es el verdadero y buen final... que no raya para nada con todo el trascurrir del film... la version de E.U. es una farsa y una porqueria... al fin y al cabo, norteamericanos... que falta de sentido estetico, para terminar una pelicula los E.U. pero muy bien por los franceses...que buen final.
I've never seen the european version of this movie, but i would like to. However, i have a few questions before i see it. . so i can know what to expect.
1) is it in french or is it still in english?
2) are there extra scenes in it that aren't in the US version?
3) are the actors the same?
umm i think thats all. . Oh yeah, is it called The Big Blue or is it Le Grand Bleu? (just so i know which one to look for)
There are 2 versions in English, the Hollywood-edited version (bad ending and missing scenes) and the later released Director's Edition which contains the original ending seen here, as well as footage that was cut out in the American release. It is The Big Blue in English and Le Grand Bleu in French.
ok i saw this movie 10 times (europa ver) AND EVERY TIME IT WAS A NEW ENDING
it really depends on how you look at it or what do you want to listen,they are many versions of the story and that's the beauty of the movie but at the end of the day he did kill him self with a very ...poetic way.if you want to believe that he kill only his 'human' nature and became a dolphin ok or she let him go just like his father let go his mother long time ago that's ok too maybe is how DEEP you want to go;0)
The ending is about surrendering everything to a higher power, even the people you love (his pregnant girlfriend). The real Enzo (which this movie characterized) is quoted a famous line that goes "God is at the bottom of the sea, and I dive to find him." Also in the closing lyrics that play during the credits, part of the song says "I'm looking for something that I'll never find. I seek Eternity."
Very well written. This ending is about seeking Eternity in the place Mayol wanted to spend it .... This moment looking back and then diving away is the moment he knew his love for the mermaids is pure and he belived they will take him forever.....
Just before this scene, he wakes up in his bed with his nose (or ears? I don't remember) bleeding. Maybe I'm wrong, but I saw it as the result of a decompression accident, which can lead to death or paralysis. And I thought they both knew, and that's why he left (to go to the sirens before he dies on the ground), and that's why she let him go.
I like the American ending, sorry. It has only been lengthened is all. Big Deal. Sounds like rivalry here and I don't see why. With either ending or music it was a wonderful movie. I know many, many people who never saw this one.
If you don't think its a big deal then you just don't understand. In the original version, Jaques tells Johana a story about how far down in the deep mermaids will take you away forever only if you are willing to die for them.
This is exactly what happens in this ending. The dolphin(mermaid) stays just out of reach, so that Jaques has to let go of his device to resurface to reach it. Jaques hesitates for a second, then lets go and embraces the dolphin. As soon as he does the divine music starts
The device to get up in this scene symbolizes his life on land, johana etc, and the dolphin is his love for the sea.
He choses to become one with the sea. All this is lost in the american edit.
Jaques was never really a human to the full extent. Enzo's death triggered what had always laid dormant, a will to become one with the sea. When Enzo is uttering his last words Jaques tries to deny it but is eventually reassured of his believes and wants to join Enzo and his father forever in the deep.
The US version destroys the plot of Jacques coming from another world, as was eluded to by enzo early on, and returning to that world after he confesses to Johanna that he's "having a hard time finding a reson to come back up". This is a very important part of the film which the brilliant director executed. The bastardized American version, with a lousy soundtrack I may add, completely screwed up the plot with a horrible ending. Damn hollywod and their happy endings!
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Actually it's "Go and see my Love". Which can be interpreted as Johanna liberating Jacques to find the mermaid or interpreted as the mermaid being Johanna's love for him which he must find.
This is one of my favorite movies ever! In so many ways I feel just like he does. He also feels that he doesn't belong (fit) in this world, and we can see that through the whole movie. If I would like to leave this world it would be on the same way. One word is enough for this movie: BEAUTIFUL!!
This is just the original and 100% better version. It's as simple as that. Thank God this was the version we saw in Brazil back in the 80's. The American version was only intented for the U.S.
I watched this film over 18 years ago... it had been one of my favourites during all this time. I have always feel that i do not belong to this world and the idea of Jacques dissapearing in the dark blue, it touch me so deeply...
Unfortunately I saw the "American" ending, and I hated it - it was recently that I saw the orignal version, with Serra's original score - It's a totally different experience - why do distributors and producers believe they have to 'dumb' down a beautifle movie for the audience?
The original ending, where he swims off into the darkness, is BEAUTIFLE! Not to mention Serra's great (somewhat dated)score,compared to Conti's AWFUL music! See the orig., forget the american version, eech!
This ending makes it clear why this movie is at 700. Also the American ending makes it clear why the American version of the film was a financial failure while the European was a success.
The American version probably calibrates much much lower.
What I"M wondering is how did the scriptwriters write a movie at 700!?!!?
Exactly. And that's the whole point. the deep ocean is an unknown place. Is he alive with the mermaids? Is he dead? or did he simply return to "his world" like enzo mentioned early on when he said: "he's from another world, he's more fish than man.". The deep ocean is a mysterious place, this ending exemplifies that accordingly.
-A story? Do you know what you're supposed to do to meet a mermaid?
-No.
-You go down to the bottom of the sea, where the water isn't even blue anymore, where the sky is only a memory, and you float there, in silence. And stay there and decide that you'll die for them. Only then do they start coming out. They come, and they greet you, and they judge the love you have for them. If it's sincere, if it's pure, they'll be with you, and take you away forever.
As this is about passion and breaking limits by the passion, take this end as metaphore. Jacques does not die - he finally can go on to live with the mermaids who recognize his passion.
This end is announced by him in the mermaid story he tells Joanna in the (long version/director's cut) film:
This is very sad ending to a very good movie! i love this movie its one of my best/greatest movie i ever seen i my life.
Jean Reno play in this role Enzo very good and Jean Marc Barr play the role " ah the little french men^^" Jacques Mayol very good. But one thing in the end i dont really get why does Jacques Mayol got blood raning out of his nose?
I feel fortunate that the European version and ending is the only one I`d viewed until 5 minutes ago. I just checked out the U.S. ending and felt that it was an insult to the obvious artistic sense Americans do have. The overdone somewhat corny sentimentality of the "happy" ending took something away from the whole feeling of the original version.
What do you mean? They show him come to the surface but you know he is swimming away out to sea with the dolphins. Possibly to his death who knows...what happy ending? It symbolizes him leaving the world of man for the sea and those he thought of more as friends rather than the humans. You know he will die. I really don't see the difference...one is shorter is all.
Then you simply don't understand what the last scene is all about. It's tied to the phone conversation where Jacques tells Johanna the story about the mermaids. It's also tied to the part where he tells her: "I'm having a hard time finding a reason to come back up". The US version destroys this plot entirely.
The real Jacques Mayol, although live at the time tis movie was filmed (acctualy he was at the set giving ideas how to film it), killed himself six years ago. It is therefore only logical that the main character in this movie should kill himself at the end, couse that's how the real Mayol went. Only the real Mayol hung himself. I thought it was tragic, because if he needed to go, he should've done it like it was done in the movie. Obviously that's the way he wanted to go years before.
You don't know if he's dead or not. That's the beauty of this ending. It's a mystery. The deep ocean is a mysterious place, this ending truely reflects that. the US ending answer the question (he resurfaced) and spoils the plot.
" I have to go and see" probably he wanted to go down and see if it whas dolphins down there where hes best friend died.
the end ends with Jacques swim away with the dolphins in the deep dark ocean.
and the words Dedicated to my daughter Mitchell. Jacques means that the movie whas dedicated for her beacuse its whas hes daughter hes girlfriend whas pregnant.
"dedicated to my daughter Mitchell" was a comment from the Director, Luc Besson. His daughter was very sick at the time of the filiming of this movie. but I like your way of looking at it. it's even better than the realy explaination.
¡Grandeeeeee! ¡Cuanta poesía en unos segundos! Por cierto, que parece que Eric Serra empleó la mayor parte de su creatividad en esta BSO, porque... ¡buehhh!
I saw this movie over 10 times, but only once have I broken down to tears in this scene, as if I've been holding it inside for so long. This is definitely one of the movies of my life.
It's beyond me why this movie gets me every time I watch it. I always cry at the end just like the first time I saw it. It brings out such deep emotions in me... I can't even describe it properly.
European version is the shit! USA version destroys all that is good about this movie.
AstartaAsh 1 month ago
True story always ending die - Ernest Hemingway; USA people it is childrens... stupid childrens who ignored true... in films, in law, in war, in earth.....
mentatM 2 months ago
I watch this movie when i was a kid on vhs in Mexico, and even here in Mexico we got the European ending, I feel sad for the USA they miss to much!!!
Directo13 4 months ago
I didn't realise there was another version of the ending. This ending is the same as the director's cut dvd, which was in English. Is the ending different in the French version?
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fcycles 5 months ago
Joesphine (the dolphin in this film shot) died today. - may she rest in peace.
fcycles 5 months ago 5
I never knew the American ending, and I'm so glad...yucky!!!
crayfishtube 5 months ago
what's the name of the song? is it in the soundtrack?
Blehstor 5 months ago
@Blehstor
My ladie blue
tatack 5 months ago
I agree, I prefer this ending compared to the US version too. I will have to see the other versions someday, thanks for posting
1MtnBoy 6 months ago
This film is one of his best ever! :)
MrPaulcm1 6 months ago
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I love this movie.
jango3 6 months ago
Damn, I have to watch the directors cut again. Favorite movie of all time. Probably. Even named my dog Enzo.
musclefixer 6 months ago
@musclefixer your kidding ! so did I. he was such a character as a puppy, so much personality we all treated him like a little person, part of the family, we took him everywhere even rock climbing. he wouldnt stop yapping and howling so I unleashed him, then he tried to scramble to the top and kept falling, so I clipped him into my harness and stuffed him in my pack. lol only took me a day or so to name him after seeing this movie I said, "your Enzo"!! if there ever was one. what a pooch !
1MtnBoy 6 months ago
I ♥ this film
michaeldazzler 6 months ago
he was part of the sea...
they shouldn't have done the usa version....it sucks
(im mexican)
emiliodefense 7 months ago
The "mermaids" took him with them for ever !!!
Keysersoze30 7 months ago
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one of my favourite films!
DreckigesKlo 7 months ago
this no sad ending....only an ending Europeans seem to revel in tragedy.
weevil44 9 months ago
This is probably the saddest and most beautiful end of a movie I've ever seen... <3 I've seen the american version too and it SUCKS.
musicformamp3 10 months ago
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I want to die this way.
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LAFKO1 10 months ago
he was probably just going to go down there to check it out before his girlfriend told him she was pregnant
jpc1925 10 months ago
rest in peace, my friend Jon Su.
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just saw the european version ...when i saw it for the first time when i was a kid...i saw the american version...and use to think that its beautyfull cause to me its clear that he dies and goes up to his paradise...he is not rescued by the dolphin...why you people hate it so much?
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thoalekos 11 months ago
The American version is kinda sucky. The real thing is much better!
murrkimbai 11 months ago
I just watched the American ending and was so confused I consulted the Internet and found this ending. This seems like a better cutoff point but I need to see the whole original cut.
seejay3061 11 months ago
he dies, right?
AUSNick87 11 months ago
@AUSNick87 he was much better down there...
SoyunSerSuperior 10 months ago
@AUSNick87 its your choice :D
in the american ending he surives, here there is it an open end so that you can imagine what you would prefer...
Helloweenler 10 months ago
@Helloweenler No - the movie made it clear he couldn't survive...it's just that the American ending is a bit more symbolic than the down-to-earth European ending. In European version, he accepts death, lets go, and...nothing. In American version, he accepts death, lets go, and...goes to his paradise. But either way, he dies. Europeans just didn't get the symbolism and thought that the American version reinvented physics and physiology to let him live. ^_^
AbsentWithoutLeaving 5 months ago
not getting tired of this film....never
Msmorgenstern666 1 year ago
This is how I want to die.
wasmayboer 1 year ago 13
Ok, so having watched the USA version first, want to mention that I didn't think he lived - that depth was unrealistic, wasn't it? I took at as a metaphorical representation of him coming home - to death. The final scene of him with dolphin in sunlight begins exactly as when he "helped" the female dolphin - and the repetition hints at this being another vision, at best.
I do want to see the full version though. And the original soundtrack...
riverofrussia 1 year ago
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folken4461 1 year ago
Scary! The American ending is sooo fake! :-D
WeToldYouSo1 1 year ago 3
Bill Conti has better music for sure.
Nickleeh32 1 year ago
luc besson+jean reno+the music of eric serra (especially the song "lady blue"). results in a great movie! :D
XXraseddXX 1 year ago
europe ending version = pure emotion and art
usa ending version = pure business
LAFKO1 1 year ago 42
I want to die this way.
mrmarknielsen 1 year ago 2
Beautiful ending for a beautiful movie, thanks Mister Besson for made a movie like that! Shame to the American Producer changed the ending for the us version
folken4461 1 year ago
Without music, it would have been "kubricky"
Revolver902 1 year ago
so he basically chose the dolphin over the woman... sad how no one values a woman's love
rhettbutlerlover33 1 year ago
@rhettbutlerlover33 i think he chose what he wanted over what her woman wanted for him.
bkro 1 year ago
I think both Enzo's and Jacques' deaths aren't "deaths" in the end. Of course, speaking physically - yes. But it's like they have reached some kind of ultimate liberation or someting. Especially what Jacques does at the Euro end is something great, it's like not thinking "I got oxygen limit, I must go up", it's more of finding some sort of dimension to his deepest dreams and following it, shit I don't know if you get my point but that was awesome thing guys!
AwesomeTwistedness 1 year ago
The american ending is pure gayness.
davishwest 1 year ago
The ending is not like wow amazing neither was the US version. Americans just like a complete ending as in knowing what happen, doesn't mean it was a happier ending because you don't see or know he even dies.. You all Assume..However the original score is shit compared to the Bill Conti Music, sorry but the original score is truly pathetic
Jubileo 1 year ago
Beautiful!!!!!
Nothing more to say
xtzul82 1 year ago
this is THE ending....
classic movie
RicoCoracao2011 1 year ago
after this movie... I WANTED TO GO DIWING :(((
imtheEKboy 1 year ago
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BP , BP , BP !
pourhi 1 year ago
anyone who didnt watch this movie with this ending and eric serras music was robbed
FendofToads 1 year ago 2
how the heck do u get a dolphin to act like that!!!???????THIS ENDING IS PURE MAGIC!!!
Wakipenda 1 year ago
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Wakipenda 1 year ago
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I think that in this USA version only explained what happened at the end :p
In Europe version has left little room for fantasy, which is better ;)
jekicaSR 1 year ago
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I think that in this USA version only explained what happened at the end :p
In Europe version has left little room for fantasy, which is better ;)
jekicaSR 1 year ago
Best movie ever made!
karinsanden 1 year ago 2
The USA version sucks. This ending is sad, yet absolutely beautiful and meaningful.
"Go, go and see, my love" :"(
ienglok 1 year ago 5
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I think that in USA version only explained what happened at the end :p
In Europe version has left little room for fantasy, which is better ;)
jekicaSRB 1 year ago
I had no idea there was another ending. The American one sucks!!! Why do they dumb-down and happify everything for americans?
scrubjay93 1 year ago 54
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Wakipenda 1 year ago
@Wakipenda Im american and I agree the european version ending was so much better but WITH the Bill Conti score.
multibuddhaneo 1 year ago
@Wakipenda This is true.
scrubjay93 1 year ago
@scrubjay93 'cus they are all little 6 yo girls. :))) Not living in reality.. And It might hurt SeaWorld revenues.. :P
MrVlada011 1 year ago
@scrubjay93 whole movie is much better than American happy ending bs. Watch directors cut with orginal music and 50minute plus
svaroglo82 1 year ago
@svaroglo82 I'm glad to know it--I will see what I can do about finding a copy.
MrVlada11--little 6 yo zombie girls I think!
scrubjay93 1 year ago
@scrubjay93 because they can't deal with how stuff would end unless it's imagined.. why do the live on McDonlands, KFC, believ that the NEXT president is going 2 fix it all whilst waving their little flags in hypnosis? Why do they not know anything about the rest of the world?? All that in itself is to try and solve the riddles of the ages..
SuperTiredofitall 1 year ago
@SuperTiredofitall Hey shit for brains, America is 50 different countries and cultures of people who defected from all the other countries of the world so when you're complaining about us you're just complaining about your own countrymen leaving to give a sentimentalized ending to a great movie. Out of the gate this movie wasn't intended for a country too young to have developed a need for ambiguous story endings like the French... And you're welcome for Youtube, enjoy it
kamanchi7 1 year ago
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asshole
nexus040670 11 months ago
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Wakipenda 11 months ago
@Wakipenda 33 countries under my belt, made or four different ethnicities, and more people to this day leave their country then people leave America to live anywhere else. 50 different cultures and economies from Hawaii to Alabama is impossible to homogenize into a singular statement that we are fat dumb and weak or scared. As a professional athlete for most of my life I've traveled to every state except New england. Sampled the worst and seen the best. Love Canada and Chile..so beat it
kamanchi7 11 months ago
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Wakipenda 11 months ago
Why do execs always have to fuck with things? This is absolutely beautiful, a shame that it wasn't seen by the majority of people who watched it on its British and American release. Yet sadly there would be more tampering to come, in the form of the US cut of Leon and the pointless addition of La Femme to the title of Nikita (not to mention its various godawful remakes).
PIFMan092 1 year ago 3
@PIFMan092 LOL, learn your history! They added "La Femme' to 'Nikita' because in America, Nikita brings to mind Nikita Kruschev and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and they didn't want to lose viewers over that. It would be like titling a movie about ballet 'Petain' and expecting French audiences to flock to the theater.
AbsentWithoutLeaving 5 months ago
@AbsentWithoutLeaving I actually didn't know that (I'm not American, and in Britain history classes are quite crap). Regardless, it's a minor error and trivial in the sense that I wasn't complaining as much about the addition to the title of Nikita. Long story short, my comment was about how world cinema shouldn't be altered to attract a wider audience and how it should be presented in a way which is approved by the director. But yeah, I can see why the title was altered for US release.
PIFMan092 5 months ago
@PIFMan092 I hear you, and I agree. But it's not just world cinema that's altered for a foreign audience. (And BTW, Besson made this movie in English...the French version is actually a dub). I hate the fact that studios pre-screen movies in front of test audiences and alter them according to the audience response. So many DVDs now include multiple versions of movies, and/or multiple endings. So which version is the 'real' one?
AbsentWithoutLeaving 5 months ago
@AbsentWithoutLeaving
true that, like Leon from Besson too
tatack 5 months ago
Oh dear - I had only seen the american ending. I didn´t know this is the original ending. And I have to agree - this ending is beautiful, the american version is.. well... :-/
kaisahk 1 year ago 6
its safe to say that he died...
cocksnap123 1 year ago 4
i loved this movie but saw the french version,don't remember the music was such a "soup".
rastacahuett 2 years ago
grandiose ce film
09vinc 2 years ago
I thougt the movie had its ups and downs... but this scene was fucking magical, in style with 2001.
Exeron91 2 years ago
Great movie!!!Magic!!!Anyone knows other movies like this??with sea ...peacefull!!!Thnx 5*
sotosparas 2 years ago 2
Luc Besson is a god.
A very under appreciated movie.
One of the best.
iskandhar 2 years ago 5
i would need to be a poet to describe what i feel when he looks back one more time then lets go,i have no words man no words....
shoah42 2 years ago 8
I feel the same way. Best film ever... God this makes me cry my eyes out. I aspire to be a free diver when I'm older. The song at the end is also incredible.
OscarsOcean 2 years ago 3
@shoah42
You truly understand what this movie is about! To me this could be THE best movie ever. Its so beautiful. I highly recommend watching this movie alone with some weed to dive deeply into it. Avoid the american version like the plague!
loooonieeee 2 years ago 5
this makes me cry =*(
ghostriderinthesky1 2 years ago 5
<3<3<3
Italianboycs 2 years ago
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Italianboycs 2 years ago
este si es el verdadero y buen final... que no raya para nada con todo el trascurrir del film... la version de E.U. es una farsa y una porqueria... al fin y al cabo, norteamericanos... que falta de sentido estetico, para terminar una pelicula los E.U. pero muy bien por los franceses...que buen final.
anthrax6979 2 years ago 2
this is an awsome movie no matter how much ever time you watch it its still fresh.
dimputhegreat 2 years ago
Amazing.
This movie can be viewed in so many different ways and that's the beauty of it.
robishSVID 2 years ago 2
very well said,true this is a great movie and an inspiration for amatuer freedivers like me.
dimputhegreat 2 years ago
I've never seen the european version of this movie, but i would like to. However, i have a few questions before i see it. . so i can know what to expect.
1) is it in french or is it still in english?
2) are there extra scenes in it that aren't in the US version?
3) are the actors the same?
umm i think thats all. . Oh yeah, is it called The Big Blue or is it Le Grand Bleu? (just so i know which one to look for)
zoey9ergirl 2 years ago
1) it is in multilanguage
2) maybe the long version lasts 3.00 hours.
3) they are same actors but score is different
zwan2 2 years ago
thank you.
umm im still not sure what title i should look for it under. . The Big Blue or Le Grand Bleu
zoey9ergirl 2 years ago
Le Grand Bleu (version longue)
Get it, you won't be disappointed.
elpitiuso 2 years ago
There are 2 versions in English, the Hollywood-edited version (bad ending and missing scenes) and the later released Director's Edition which contains the original ending seen here, as well as footage that was cut out in the American release. It is The Big Blue in English and Le Grand Bleu in French.
slvrmsngr 2 years ago
its nothing to do with suicide.....its more deeper......its about the life you choose...of course "gringo" dont understand
jmterani 2 years ago 2
Then why won't you explain? That's the point of a question.
jflasssh 2 years ago 2
ok i saw this movie 10 times (europa ver) AND EVERY TIME IT WAS A NEW ENDING
it really depends on how you look at it or what do you want to listen,they are many versions of the story and that's the beauty of the movie but at the end of the day he did kill him self with a very ...poetic way.if you want to believe that he kill only his 'human' nature and became a dolphin ok or she let him go just like his father let go his mother long time ago that's ok too maybe is how DEEP you want to go;0)
sevina80 2 years ago 2
The ending is about surrendering everything to a higher power, even the people you love (his pregnant girlfriend). The real Enzo (which this movie characterized) is quoted a famous line that goes "God is at the bottom of the sea, and I dive to find him." Also in the closing lyrics that play during the credits, part of the song says "I'm looking for something that I'll never find. I seek Eternity."
slvrmsngr 2 years ago
Very well written. This ending is about seeking Eternity in the place Mayol wanted to spend it .... This moment looking back and then diving away is the moment he knew his love for the mermaids is pure and he belived they will take him forever.....
Ronlv001 2 years ago 4
But SHE lets him go, that real question to me, how she accepted his sucide under such unhealthy conditions "I have to see"!?
jflasssh 2 years ago
Just before this scene, he wakes up in his bed with his nose (or ears? I don't remember) bleeding. Maybe I'm wrong, but I saw it as the result of a decompression accident, which can lead to death or paralysis. And I thought they both knew, and that's why he left (to go to the sirens before he dies on the ground), and that's why she let him go.
Sekhmet1982 2 years ago
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zoey9ergirl 2 years ago
I like the American ending, sorry. It has only been lengthened is all. Big Deal. Sounds like rivalry here and I don't see why. With either ending or music it was a wonderful movie. I know many, many people who never saw this one.
Mollidew 2 years ago
If you don't think its a big deal then you just don't understand. In the original version, Jaques tells Johana a story about how far down in the deep mermaids will take you away forever only if you are willing to die for them.
This is exactly what happens in this ending. The dolphin(mermaid) stays just out of reach, so that Jaques has to let go of his device to resurface to reach it. Jaques hesitates for a second, then lets go and embraces the dolphin. As soon as he does the divine music starts
MitsuGTO885 2 years ago 8
The device to get up in this scene symbolizes his life on land, johana etc, and the dolphin is his love for the sea.
He choses to become one with the sea. All this is lost in the american edit.
Jaques was never really a human to the full extent. Enzo's death triggered what had always laid dormant, a will to become one with the sea. When Enzo is uttering his last words Jaques tries to deny it but is eventually reassured of his believes and wants to join Enzo and his father forever in the deep.
MitsuGTO885 2 years ago 6
The US version destroys the plot of Jacques coming from another world, as was eluded to by enzo early on, and returning to that world after he confesses to Johanna that he's "having a hard time finding a reson to come back up". This is a very important part of the film which the brilliant director executed. The bastardized American version, with a lousy soundtrack I may add, completely screwed up the plot with a horrible ending. Damn hollywod and their happy endings!
zeuserx 2 years ago
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conceil8 2 years ago
This end was much better than the american version!...
wolvdark 2 years ago 45
very very nice scene ! awsome
Niceonebeats 2 years ago 3
She says, "Go, my love...." Sniff sniff sniff
Misty9190 2 years ago 4
Actually it's "Go and see my Love". Which can be interpreted as Johanna liberating Jacques to find the mermaid or interpreted as the mermaid being Johanna's love for him which he must find.
zeuserx 2 years ago
Gosh, I cry every time I watch this! This movie is my all time favourite! BRAVO Besson!!!
anagord2010 2 years ago 6
This is one of my favorite movies ever! In so many ways I feel just like he does. He also feels that he doesn't belong (fit) in this world, and we can see that through the whole movie. If I would like to leave this world it would be on the same way. One word is enough for this movie: BEAUTIFUL!!
drobilica 3 years ago 4
what about johana?!?!?!?
Marsha524 3 years ago
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juliesempire 3 years ago
Well, she lost him to the sea ...
juliesempire 3 years ago
This is just the original and 100% better version. It's as simple as that. Thank God this was the version we saw in Brazil back in the 80's. The American version was only intented for the U.S.
Cunhambebe 3 years ago 4
Yes, the American version got f*cked up by Hollywood.
slvrmsngr 3 years ago 5
after to many years, i think I can understad
maibanez 3 years ago
I cried....I cried.... He was doomed to stay there, in the sea... Such an amazing music!!!
eglepetrosiute 3 years ago 4
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juliesempire 3 years ago
So so so... much better than the american ending.
keyser31 3 years ago 5
Magnifique ... pas comme la version US ...
lio160782 3 years ago 4
This may be the best way to die...
LeonidasV 3 years ago 3
This may be the most beautiful ending I have ever seen!
Klottelitsch 3 years ago 4
I'm a fan of anything that Eric Serra or Luc Besson grace with their brillance. This may be the most beautiful ending I will ever see.
Xandax1 3 years ago 4
I watched this film over 18 years ago... it had been one of my favourites during all this time. I have always feel that i do not belong to this world and the idea of Jacques dissapearing in the dark blue, it touch me so deeply...
aluapmt 3 years ago 5
absolutely true... another reality... wish i was already there...
mazepsteTin 3 years ago
So love this ending better than the American version!!
mekos 3 years ago 2
Unfortunately I saw the "American" ending, and I hated it - it was recently that I saw the orignal version, with Serra's original score - It's a totally different experience - why do distributors and producers believe they have to 'dumb' down a beautifle movie for the audience?
The original ending, where he swims off into the darkness, is BEAUTIFLE! Not to mention Serra's great (somewhat dated)score,compared to Conti's AWFUL music! See the orig., forget the american version, eech!
juvserr 3 years ago 9
I'm french guy, and i've discouverd your version today, and I say it's really insane to keep the morality to this point, the moovie lost his sens
'scuse me for my bad english, soory
LeDucDeDijon 3 years ago 3
This movie was amazing! Dr. David Hawkins recommended this very highly and I see why.
abes292 3 years ago 3
Hells yeah a hawkins fan! me too man.
This ending makes it clear why this movie is at 700. Also the American ending makes it clear why the American version of the film was a financial failure while the European was a success.
The American version probably calibrates much much lower.
What I"M wondering is how did the scriptwriters write a movie at 700!?!!?
slvrmsngr 3 years ago
How do we know that he is dead in this version? What are the indications. I think its open to interpretation.
rentz46 3 years ago 2
Exactly. And that's the whole point. the deep ocean is an unknown place. Is he alive with the mermaids? Is he dead? or did he simply return to "his world" like enzo mentioned early on when he said: "he's from another world, he's more fish than man.". The deep ocean is a mysterious place, this ending exemplifies that accordingly.
zeuserx 2 years ago
this movie is based on a true story about the life of Jacques Mayol.
born 1 april 1927 in Shanghai China
dead 22 december 2001.
Jacques Mayol was the first diver to set record on free diving about a deep of 105 feet!!!!
Jacques Mayol comited suicide in the city Elba Italy by hanging himself!
rest in peace.........
dedicate to the dolphins<3
Rexxxern 3 years ago 3
just a small detail.. he dived at 105 meters not feet ;)
...that's 344 feet
Keysersoze30 3 years ago
-Tell me a story.
-A story? Do you know what you're supposed to do to meet a mermaid?
-No.
-You go down to the bottom of the sea, where the water isn't even blue anymore, where the sky is only a memory, and you float there, in silence. And stay there and decide that you'll die for them. Only then do they start coming out. They come, and they greet you, and they judge the love you have for them. If it's sincere, if it's pure, they'll be with you, and take you away forever.
-I like that
GomorrhaDOTeu 3 years ago 9
what about this music...bill conti eat your heart out
fasterbludger 3 years ago
Great end of a great film.
As this is about passion and breaking limits by the passion, take this end as metaphore. Jacques does not die - he finally can go on to live with the mermaids who recognize his passion.
This end is announced by him in the mermaid story he tells Joanna in the (long version/director's cut) film:
GomorrhaDOTeu 3 years ago
This is very sad ending to a very good movie! i love this movie its one of my best/greatest movie i ever seen i my life.
Jean Reno play in this role Enzo very good and Jean Marc Barr play the role " ah the little french men^^" Jacques Mayol very good. But one thing in the end i dont really get why does Jacques Mayol got blood raning out of his nose?
Rexxxern 4 years ago
Well in my opinion it is not sad,the dolphin needs to breathe so Jacques dont die,thats my opinion of course i might be wrong
jimmcom 4 years ago
one day i ll do the same
FADELIFE 4 years ago 4
So much better than the usa version!
xmascara 4 years ago 11
Good ending!!!
hurzo 4 years ago 7
I feel fortunate that the European version and ending is the only one I`d viewed until 5 minutes ago. I just checked out the U.S. ending and felt that it was an insult to the obvious artistic sense Americans do have. The overdone somewhat corny sentimentality of the "happy" ending took something away from the whole feeling of the original version.
insanebutpillsdohelp 4 years ago 7
I too had not seen the American ending til a moment ago. You're right it's an insult to the viewer AND the movie.
AdamBlake1111 4 years ago 6
I'm American and even I consider the American ending to be insulting
tuttt99 4 years ago 6
What do you mean? They show him come to the surface but you know he is swimming away out to sea with the dolphins. Possibly to his death who knows...what happy ending? It symbolizes him leaving the world of man for the sea and those he thought of more as friends rather than the humans. You know he will die. I really don't see the difference...one is shorter is all.
Mollidew 2 years ago
Then you simply don't understand what the last scene is all about. It's tied to the phone conversation where Jacques tells Johanna the story about the mermaids. It's also tied to the part where he tells her: "I'm having a hard time finding a reason to come back up". The US version destroys this plot entirely.
zeuserx 2 years ago
The real Jacques Mayol, although live at the time tis movie was filmed (acctualy he was at the set giving ideas how to film it), killed himself six years ago. It is therefore only logical that the main character in this movie should kill himself at the end, couse that's how the real Mayol went. Only the real Mayol hung himself. I thought it was tragic, because if he needed to go, he should've done it like it was done in the movie. Obviously that's the way he wanted to go years before.
brainstorm333 4 years ago 3
I find it a little tragic-comic that people have an opinion on how a person should have comitted suicide.
He`s dead.
Let the man go, and try not to feel let down cause he didnt fit the image you had of him.
EyeeShare 3 years ago
You don't know if he's dead or not. That's the beauty of this ending. It's a mystery. The deep ocean is a mysterious place, this ending truely reflects that. the US ending answer the question (he resurfaced) and spoils the plot.
zeuserx 2 years ago
@zeuserx No, he dies in the American version. And goes to his paradise. I didn't think the symbolism was all THAT hard to understand...
AbsentWithoutLeaving 5 months ago
In memory of Jacques Mayol whas the best free driver in the world....
Rexxxern 4 years ago 2
a beautiful,fitting end to a brilliant movie. the U.S ending is an absolute dsgrace
daddylonglegs1 4 years ago 6
Jacques probably died in the end sadly!
when he go down he say to hes girlfriend
" I have to go and see" probably he wanted to go down and see if it whas dolphins down there where hes best friend died.
the end ends with Jacques swim away with the dolphins in the deep dark ocean.
and the words Dedicated to my daughter Mitchell. Jacques means that the movie whas dedicated for her beacuse its whas hes daughter hes girlfriend whas pregnant.
Rexxxern 4 years ago
"dedicated to my daughter Mitchell" was a comment from the Director, Luc Besson. His daughter was very sick at the time of the filiming of this movie. but I like your way of looking at it. it's even better than the realy explaination.
zeuserx 2 years ago
dedicated to big blue water hunter
FADELIFE 4 years ago
this movie makes me cry because it reminds me of someone very special to me
ditoria 4 years ago
me too ;(
caramelitta 4 years ago
this is one of my best greatest lovely dream movie i ever seen in my life =)
Rexxxern 4 years ago
the real jacques majol was the techical consultant in this movie
FADELIFE 4 years ago 2
jacques majol committed a suicide
transfobby 4 years ago
thats how i wanna die
FADELIFE 4 years ago 2
Le film est énorme, la musique de Eric Serra est absolument parfaite...
Brice39 4 years ago
¡Grandeeeeee! ¡Cuanta poesía en unos segundos! Por cierto, que parece que Eric Serra empleó la mayor parte de su creatividad en esta BSO, porque... ¡buehhh!
pelinordeadeje 4 years ago
jacques majol was the best diver in the world...
protogon 4 years ago 3
I saw this movie over 10 times, but only once have I broken down to tears in this scene, as if I've been holding it inside for so long. This is definitely one of the movies of my life.
RXRA 4 years ago 3