As others mentioned the link to this thought was the fact Mike's kids had Sampson which would be hard to explain if Mike hadn't seen Bobby since the flight. Personally from what I had read of that I think that would have actually enforced my thoughts that it was all fabricated. Especially with the Radio Flyer floating in the air with no wires.
It just would seem sadder since Mike was still living a lie again just trying to think of how I would have seen it at a young age. Also I find it odd that several people look at what Bobby did as suicide. His intentions were to fly and escape, not die. I wound up here as it appears that Tom Hanks' name was dropped from credits on the version the Movies Network showed today and I wondered if he chose to do so in order to dissociate himself from the production.
I think I will hunt down this book. I would have preferred the ending as DME states in his interview. Also the fuzzy warm visual sort of aids in the fantasy I think that could have been more so. Thanks for maintaining thid site. I only saw this film for the first today at the age of 19 and was confused by the ending i wanted to believe he flew away but couldn't help thinking that he didnt.
I was relieved to see that the intended ending was to prove that Bobby survived. Although I saw comments from people who say as a child they believed Bobby flew away and adults believe he died or didnt exist at all. To me this proves the line in the film that states people stop believing at the age of As kids who watch this have the mindset that anything is possible.
Whereas adults have the mindset of 'oh that could never happen'. I was surprised to see no one else noticed this about the way the film could be precieved based on age if anyone has pointed this out im sorry i didnt see. I enjoyed this film but would love to see a remake with the ending that DME intended.
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I didnt lile the ending where it left you guessing if it was really true that the flyer worked, or if Bobby really survived the beatings, or the takeoff that nighy. I just finished watching this movie again, having seen it as an adult when it originally screened and also at other times when it appeared on TV. Each time I watch the movie, I become tearful at the end.
As a child, my brother and I used build and fly model airplanes. Our shared interest in the hobby served to keep as close friends, as well as siblings. Each time I watch the movie, I choose to believe that Bobby survived, and ultimately became a pilot, thereby following his dreams. Also, I loved Tom Hanks' narration. And although some have alluded to the fact that the ending implies that the story was a way of conveying the fact that Bobby died and went to heaven Sometimes I wish that it would have been nice if, at the end of Tom Hanks' tale, grown-up Bobby could be seen walking across the tarmac, having just landed one of the small planes.
Hey Jules, Thanks for your post. In the original script, and in the book I wrote upon which the script is based, Bobby and Mike do indeed reconnect at the end. Bobby is wearing an Air Force Officer's uniform. So you were right. Cheers, DME. Would be great to get the original cast back. I like the angle of Bobby going to the Air Force- maybe he crash lands just a few miles away and lives on a rural farm this was 's before going to the Air Force as a young man.
Okay, DME Loved this movie growing up. I was 11 when it came out and I've probably seen it a dozen or so times since. A close third behind Stand By Me and Sandlot. Even at 11, I imagined two scenarios for Bobby. My mind wrestled with the ideas that he either made it and crash landed somewhere to be taken in by some sweet, sympathetic woman with a pie cooling on her window sill, or that he didn't make it but was free now. Both poetic and not knowing is partly the reason it is exciting. Sometimes the ambiguity Rohrshack?
Off and on during the movie I thought Bobby was an imaginary friend and Mike was suffering disassociative disorder, dillusions, etc. I am surprised that no one has suggested that Bobby's death after the contraption crashed would have been hidden from Mike at age 10 , so he would not feel responsible for his "brilliant idea" having killed his little brother. The post cards would have supported this merciful delusion.
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I I would have rather spent my time reading it. I love Tom Hanks and it is such a shame that this movie had to be ruined with a different ending; the movie just seemed off which is so sad because usually anything that I have seen with Tom Hanks has been sheer magic.
It is maddening to me to see how many people assume suicide. If they had met in the museum as originally scripted, that would have driven home the message to never give up. The ending is produced is just too disconnected from the body of the movie.
Too bad some big ego s in Hollywood had to ruin the whole message by narcissitically insisting upon changing the content so badly. Thank you for posting what the ending should have been.
At least I won't be scratching my head anymore tonight, other than my perplexion over why such a perfect plot was ruined. I'm so sorry that they did this to your beautiful movie. The Hallmark of a genius creator is knowing when to keep the message alive and not to kill it. The movie as viewed tonight was just plain confusing and my mom was not impressed at all.
Again, thank you for solving the enigma by telling us what the end was supposed to have been. The thing most confusing to me was how such a beautiful and enthralling plot could end so abruptly and disturbingly.
I wholeheartedly disagree with the people that said the movie was better the way it was released. No no no no no. It would have been a very fine movie. The good thing about Brilliance is that it is not a static quality; now that I know a little bit more I shall be looking for your name.
I definitely would seek out and attend another movie based on an original unadulterated script written by you. Thank you for this blog! I love this movie and have seen it many times, just finished watching again tonight. The original ending would definitely have given a more uplifting resolution. I had a few theories, but the one that made the most sense to me was that Mary lost custody of Bobby due to the abuse, and he was placed with a foster or adoptive family.
This would explain how Bobby survived and had the resources and support to become a pilot. The postcards were the only way the boys could stay in touch, perhaps without the new parent's knowledge. Mike, being a child, would have invented a story to cope with the loss of the brother he tried to protect. This theory, of course, is from an adult mind. I am going to seek out the book.
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I watched Radio Flyer quite a lot when I was a kid. I watched it with my siblings and mom. As a child watching the movie, the only take away I had was that Bobby escaped and traveled the world. When I talked about the movie years later with my mom, she had a very different take away. She thought that there was one story line for kids and one story line for adults. For kids the story line is as depicted, Bobby flies away. For adults, my mom thought that the story line was that Bobby was killed by Jack, but that adult Mike as Tom Hanks makes the choice amidst his storytelling to change the ending for his young audience.
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Another poster has spoken about how younger viewers believe that Bobby lived and older viewers, cynical with the 'truths' of life, believed he died.
I'm not glad for you, DME, that H'wood took your vision and twisted it, for it lost the power of its intent thereby. However, I must say that we would not be having this discussion had this not happened. IF we'd known, straight off, that Bobby survived, I wonder if we'd have thought as deeply as a lot of folks have in terms of child abuse.
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In just 1 days, my husband was back to me. So we're suppose to believe that it flew? And Bobby traveled around the world and never saw his brother again? Is he still flying that wagon plane? It's a fantasy film.
Do you believe that a midget saved the world by destroying a ring? I would have been fine with Bobby traveling the world if it weren't for Mike's conversation with his kids at end. Esta es mi firma. I am as "dumb" as the other posters I wanted him to be alive. And at the same time, we all had doubts like about Santa! A story with the grim reality of child abuse is unlikely to include magic. I mentioned the ending to my sister who got hit every day of her childhood, but no bruises, blood or broken bones and she sneered at me and said "Of COURSE he died, the stepfather killed him.
I often feel confused by writing credits. By themselves, the writer and screenwriter make sense: one wrote the original and the second made it filmable. But then the writer of the "from the movie" post-movie cash-cow book turns up, and blurs the lines. Alan Dean Foster has written a dozen - there's no way he "wrote" the originals! Sometimes the original writer comes back and makes the screenplay back into a new book, and blows my mind!
The movie matched the paperback faithfully, omitting his imprisonment but including the end, and yet Matheson disowned the movie?! Or maybe at this point he just liked the royalties, lol. The writer wrote something different.
The director, didn't like the version he put out, so in interviews later, he lamented. But yes in analysis of what is in the movie, likely you could say that yes Tom Hanks character appears to be in denial of what actually happened, or fudging the retelling for the children. Which seems more like real-life But it also the preserved the possible 'Fantastic! I remember watching this movie when I was years-old and my dad flat out said: He died!
He didn't fly that thing! He's dead! I looked at my dad and was shocked by his comments. But now at years-old, it does make more sense of what my dad was saying.
Why didn't Bobby come back when he was grown? I'm so aggravated I did that!!!! Gotta find again so I can watch it with a critical eye. I think I saw where it was in book form. From one Radio Flyer lover to another, happy watching! Yes, I haven't read the book it was based on. It wasn't in any library near me. I think I made a mental note to check on scribd and amazon then completely spaced it. I hope it comes on TV again so you can record it. I just can't wait until Elijah Wood finally grows up to be Tom Hanks.
The story was metaphorical to me, in every shape and form. That being said, I'm on the side where I believe Bobby is real and alive. Why would they need to get money in order to build a hunk of junk that wouldn't logically fly?
Because that isn't what they were building up for. If I can recall my childhood, the most mundane things were 'magical' in a sense. The machine they were building, was completely symbolic. They didn't build the radio flyer and if they did, it probably didn't even look like that but what they were getting was tickets out of there to fly out of the airport. The King came back earlier than planned, before they had enough money to both get out of there. So it was Bobby who was sent on a plane.
This is why right as their mother gets done reading their note, you hear a plane fly over head. Bobby is on that plane. Children don't have the sense of time like adults. Memories as you get older, get blurred together. The whole movie in fact, recalled the most 'important' aspects in their memories. What Mikey was remembering, was likely his goodbyes at the airport. He ran back to the wishing spot afterward, where the King finding him.
The airport, seeing this disturbing display of the children going to this desperation, called authorities but Bobby was already on the plane flying the moment it went over their mother's home. What we see afterwards, with the infamous Radio Flyer scene, is likely a flashback. The mother was already driving there. We don't know if the mother actually called authorities or not, but if she did -- I think a lot of their speediness had to deal with the fact some people at the airport were greatly concerned.
And it was clear that the one police officer knew something was wrong throughout the movie, but couldn't do anything about it because the children would not say a word about the subject. He likely knew immediately what was wrong and was right there on the scene. The walkie talkie was likely how they kept connected to say their goodbyes properly, before he was long out of distance.
The shaking was turbulence from the plane going up and I assumed Bobby already had dreams of being an aviator so he got into the role like he was. This is also ties into why the authorities so conveniently at the right time stopped the King. Mikey likely ran up to the wishing spot to see him fly off in the distance and try to keep contact with him. Why it took so long to find Bobby because he might have been picked up by authorities wherever he landed where he was properly questioned.
But after a while they finally did get contact with him again because he was soon put into foster care and where he was able to fulfill his dream by becoming an aviator who traveled all over the world. The plane that flies over head at the end, with Tom Hanks and all -- is likely his little brother and they are visiting him to see him fly.
It's important there is no implication that Bobby is dead the way the children talk about him. Mikey likely told this 'magical' story is because this is how he genuinely had to cope with the abuse, but I don't think any of the things were outright lies. That's an interesting theory, it's one I haven't heard before. My only thing is, a minor can't get on an airplane without an adult dropping them off, and an adult retrieving them, having flown as an unaccompanied minor myself.
I suppose a movie could ignore that logic of how air plane tickets work. I love hearing new opinions so many years after I wrote this post. It's an interesting movie. I also went with in mind, the creator himself said Bobby had survived, which made me thinking of it in a metaphysical sense. Otherwise, I was assuming he was dead too. This goes into the idea it was Fisher who bought the ticket. There was an odd focus on him despite him being a relatively 'minor' character and just being an urban legend.
The plane with Bobby on it likely was notified immediately when it was up in the air, so when it landed the local authorities picked him up.
There he probably explained the whole abusive situation, they found the mother incompetent to take care of the child and thus why he got put into the adoption situation. On the flip side, Mikey and his mother were likely kept under close watch from then on, in case their mother fell back into old habits and ended up with another abusive guy.
It thankfully didn't happen. Interesting about Fisher. That would be kind of nice for the boys to have the local legend assist with an escape. Thanks again for sharing this theory here. I always viewed this film sort of akin to the movie "The boy who could fly". I'm going to have to watch them both again. I just caught the very ending of Flyer and it led me here. I'll have to check that out so I can better understand your comparison.
Thanks for visiting! I always felt I don't need to see him fly away at the end with the whole town witnessing it. He just needed to "metaphorically" fly away, where to, don't need to know, just that he's free now. I still haven't watched that. I need to get on it. Nearly four year old recommendations are not a good look.
In a recent article, David Mickey Evans explains how the ending was changed I wrote it because I intended it to mean that the Radio Flyer had actually worked -- whatever the machinations of how Bobby survived notwithstanding. Donner's opinion was that the ending should be a "Rorschach Test" for the audience.
I believe that is entirely wrong. I think the fantasy elements of this movie are what worked the least. Like the giant buffalo talking to Mikey in his dream, so I can see how that ending probably would've bombed.
One of my favorite childhood movies. I always believed Bobby lived and later became a pilot. Never saw it any other way. Just watched Screen Junkies with Elijah Wood as a guest and I think he mentions that Bobby committed suicide, with the whole flying thing as a metaphor for it. Although I do know that the writer intended for him to live. Wow I'm going to have to look up that interview now.
Thanks for mentioning it. Interesting that hardly anyone else mentions suicide, when that seemed to me the more likely explanation. The whole problem with the Radio Flyer is that they never could have built the thing in the first place, much less make it work. When the mother sees Mike in the 'wishing spot' and asks where Bobby is, I got the impression that he had jumped from that spot-the spot where his wish to escape could come true. Mike just says that he is 'gone' and that he had escaped- flown away.
Throughout the story, Mike continues to mention how Bobby had this idea in his head for a while before putting it into action. So Bobby knew when the King came back that it was time for him to go. Just a theory. But it does explain the whole metaphor about flying. I think suicide probably doesn't come up as much because Bobby was so young and it can sometimes be hard to think of a child that young being able to contemplate suicide.
He was what, 6 or 7? Here's an interview with the original writer supposed to be director of the film. It'll provide some insight. I really wish I could have seen his version of the story. And yes, it is a bison, not a buffalo. I'd guess convenience? They drove by the statue so that's what had to appear to Mikey in his dream? I was about to ask that myself.
But I think the Mike saw how unhappy the bison was because he was all alone - the last of his kind. So, when it comes to him in a dream and tells him he has to help Bobby, I think it means that Mike's compassion for his brother compels him to try to help him escape his pain. That's a nice way to think of it.
That makes sense to me. I like it. I just watched this again as an adult. I thought wow was Mikey a imaginary friend.. I just read a article where the writer originally meant there kids to live in a magic world only children live in,believing animals talked and you could fly in a pretend airplane.
Only the movie studio made him change it and actually changed directors three fourth's of the way through filming. They cut out talking to the dog as in the Buffalo scene. They cut the end where the writer intended to have a reunion of the boys as men with Mike as a Airforce Officer and the flyer floating next to the Wright Flyer at in the Arospace museum. Proving magic did exist at least in the minds of two young boys.
I really like a movie that makes you think and it would have been way better if the movie was filmed as it was intended by the writer. That would've been a completely different movie tonally it seems like. I'm glad they took the more realistic approach personally though that would've been interesting to watch too. I just watched this with my 8 and 9 year old grandchildren. The 8 year old said at the end of the movie I think Bobby was killed.
He wasn't sure if he died in the Flyer or was killed by the stepfather. I never thought about Bobby not being real. A framed picture is shown of just the mother and the dog. I am puzzled about that. Why wouldn't both boys be in the picture or anyway Mike? I don't think it is possible two boys that young, I am guessing 6 and 8,could build a contraption like that.
Bobby says he knows the end is near. He has the premonition of his death. Not sure about the postcards actually being sent by anyone. Sad movie. I know that the voice-over narration suggests that maybe this wasn't the way the story really happened, and is only the way Mike, the older brother, now remembers it as an adult. OK, but then what did really happen? Did Bobby fall to his death? Did the cops haul away The King?
Did Mom wise up? At the end, there's an number you can call if you want information on child abuse. I imagine the volunteers at the other end would have some pithy observations about this movie. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
Adam Baldwin as The King. Lorraine Bracco as Mary. Reviews Radio Flyer.
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