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Originally Posted by Sculpt
"Sometimes clearly, like with Daddy's Girl, where the director admitted he changed the original ending because it would not work in today's culture. Sometimes, it's more subtle like with the character portrayal." Didn't see Daddy's Girl. What was changed and for what reason do you think?
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I saw the film during a festival. During an interview before the screening, the director said that the original script had been lying around for a few years. When he eventually got around to filming the script, the MeToo-movement had already started and he figured the original ending would not work/be appropriate in these times. He did not specify for obvious reasons (spoilers and such) and I did not attend the Q&A after the screening (last train home to catch), so while I might have a sneaking suspicion, I can only speculate.
So the story is: a man and his daughter live together on a farm. Evenings, they go to bars in the surrounding areas - where she poses as his girlfriend - with the intent to pick up and take home vulnerable women that he can then torture.
Throughout the movie, the subject of suicide comes into play quite heavily. The mother of the main character commits suicide at the start and she offers suicide as a "way out" to her father's victims. So the end might be her committing suicide as well after stopping her father. Whereas now, she and the final victim join forces in order to go on a Dexter-like killing spree.
For me as a viewer, the new ending works very well (also if you just look at it for what it is without the - for lack of a better word - baggage) and the reasoning for changing it makes sense, so that makes this a good example of how the times are changing.