I didn’t get a chance to see the movie while it was running in theaters, but the desire to do so had been there. Because a story should be told the way the original story teller intended, whether or not it conforms to mainstream ideals.Ĭrimson Peak was quite the unexpected delight for me in many ways.
Or you wanted a different story, which is certainly what you will get. I think that if you don't find it disappointing in the end, you didn't really understand this story at all. I would really love to specifically say what those last two pages have in them that should never have been there, but that would be too much of a spoiler. If you are a woman, I believe you will also come away with the distinct impression that Guillermo Del Toro is a genius and a champion for women, and that the author of this novelization should take a page out of his book as far as how to depict women and empower them. Everything that you wanted to know more about the characters will be given to you there, and you will understand why the story does not end the way the author has chosen to alter it, and you will feel satisfied with the way the story was intended to end and how that empowers rather than trivializes the female characters. Do yourself a favor - watch the film, and then rewatch it with Guillermo Del Toro's commentary. The disappointment of the last two pages of the author's version takes away from anything else she might have added as far as more depth of character via backstory and giving more character to the house itself. The author also has toned things down to an incredible degree, obviously to make the story less shocking to readers. I suppose she wanted to make it all more mainstream, more "happy ending". The author of this novelization trivializes the entire story by adding a third love story and changing the ending. There are only two love stories here - not three.
What does not happen in the end of the film does not happen for a very specific reason - because it is not how the story ends, and because it takes away from the power of the female characters, specifically Edith.
Guillermo wanted to give his female characters that power. The female characters that are created here are the hero and the villain - not the male characters. The book does not end the way the movie ends, and more importantly, in the special feature commentary to the film, Guillermo Del Toro very specifically explains why he did not end the film in that way and that his not ending it in that way was very important in relation to the characters. The most important thing to know about this novelization is that although it is written well enough, the ending of the book is in complete contradiction with what the writer/director Guillermo Del Toro intended for the story.
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