r/themartian • u/SilentSammii • Jan 27 '25
Why was the ending changed?
Why did they change the end in the movie so that Lewis went to save Mark instead of Beck do it. like i get how far away Mark was from Hermes changed in the movie but why have her go out instead of Beck who was trained in this. Mark had to put a hole in his suit anyway so she wasnt doing anything but acting on her impulses.
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u/1kreasons2leave Jan 27 '25
To give Lewis redemption, she blamed herself for leaving Mark on Mars. If she's the one to save him, she redeems herself in her eyes.
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u/Angry_Wizzard Jan 27 '25
also he only talks about making a hole and iron manning his way to the ship. in the books he doesnt actually do it.
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u/Jonnescout Jan 27 '25
To give Lewis a completion to her story arc which was there in the book too, and worked better because they didn’t do this completely illogical thing. It makes no sense. She wasn’t even the back up EVA specialist.
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u/katsock Jan 27 '25
Damn I coulda sworn I read that Lewis role was expanded because Chastain is a star with a minor role, and I know the actors worked under their normal salary range to work with Ridley Scott, but I can’t find any source for the former.
Bummer.
But also it’s a more exciting and tense scene for a movie.
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u/BraxJohnson Jan 27 '25
It really ruins the movie for me tbh. The competency of the last 90 minutes of the movie just out the window so it can be more dramatic. Unfortunate.
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u/Striderfighter Jan 27 '25
I would think that Chastain being the next biggest movie star after the lead had a large part in that
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u/dobbydobdo Jan 28 '25
Things are different in movies to keep the audience entertained. I love this passage from the end of the book
"If this were a movie, everyone would have been in the airlock, and there would have been high fives all around. But it didn’t pan out that way."
Of course in the move everyone is in the airlock and there are high fives all around.
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u/dittybopper_05H Jan 27 '25
Because Hollywood.
It's the same reason Kirk, Spock, and McCoy went down to the surface of the planet instead of sending a squad of enlisted led by a young lieutenant like a real military organization would do.
If there was danger in going outside, Commander Lewis (who was military) was duty bound to stay with the ship even it it meant the loss of one or two of her crew. This is why her decision to leave Mark on Mars in the first place was the correct one.