There’s one secret plot point in the upcoming “Sex and the City” film that is like the holy grail of clandestine movie turning points for women obsessed and eagerly awaiting the feature-length version of this HBO drama.
It’s been long rumored due to the film’s semi-ambiguous trailer that Mr. Big (Chris Noth) – Carrie Bradshaw’s (Sarah Jessica Parker) longtime on-and-off paramour – would be killed in the film.
The trailer revealed a central plot point where Big and Bradshaw are finally to be wed, but something mysterious happens (or at least is not revealed) and the nuptials are abruptly halted.
Bradshaw is left to pick up the pieces of her life and figure out how to move on. But what happens to Big?!? Why does the wedding stop? How in the hell does the perennially broke Bradshaw all of a sudden have an assistant?? (Jennifer Hudson) These questions has been a closely guarded secret and one that has had ‘Sex’ fanatics all in a vanilla candle-scented lather.
Well, the Associated Press talked to the director Michael Patrick King yesterday and he spilled the beans (see how low in the story we put the info?) and assuaged the fears of ladies everywhere by claiming Mr. Big would not be killed.
“Kill Mr. Big? I would have been chased around the planet by women with torches,” King divulged. The idea of Big’s death was pitched to King early on (he also wrote the film) and he was aiming for some “edge, pathos and melodrama” in his screenplay, but Big kicking the bucket was evidently too much.
“I did want an emotional roller-coaster,” the director said, acutely aware of who his audience and meal ticket is and clearly having contemplated being ripped to shreds by an angered mob of harpies. “My ultimate target was to make our ‘girlfriends’ — in other words, our audience — happy. And I don’t think Mr. Big dying would make them happy. It’s a summer movie. Why would I want to kill anyone?”
So, but does that mean Big leaves Bradshaw at the altar? Cause if that’s the case, ladies in the audience will surely want him dead and or castrated after that.
