'The Bride!' spoilers – Maggie Gyllenhaal unpacks 'hopeful ending'
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Spoiler alert! We're discussing important plot points and the ending of “The Bride!” (in theaters now), so beware if you haven’t seen it yet.
Frankenstein’s monster and his Bride live fast and die hard in “The Bride!” Or in their case, die again. Yet director Maggie Gyllenhaal still manages to give them a hopeful ending.
In the filmmaker’s twisted 1930s twist on “The Bride of Frankenstein,” Frank (Christian Bale) asks Chicago scientist Dr. Euphronious (Annette Bening) to make him a mate and they reanimate the corpse of a young dead woman named Ida (Jessie Buckley) who becomes the Bride. Frank kills a couple of dudes who mess with his love interest and they go on the run.
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Crime and murder highlight their road trip, with the cops in pursuit, but their travails also spawn a legion of female followers who paint their faces with black splotches to match the Bride and rise up against the men holding them down.
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