Most people I knew who saw the movie in theaters left it kind of deflated, feeling like Peele pulled his haymaker at the last minute. But I know a lot of people, including Peele, think that we already know that's how this story would end in real life and there wouldn't have been any value in dropping the hammer like that. White audiences that didn't want to see it would've already checked out of the movie long before and Black audiences would be primed to expect the worst, so why not take that burden off them?


I get all that about why they changed it and I'm pretty sure the movie wouldn't have been as huge of a hit if Lil' Rel hadn't got that last laugh line, but I also wasn't shocked when Peele admitted he'd originally written it the other way because the ending he put out felt like a pillow out of nowhere.


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