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Pretty Woman's original ending was actually really brutal.
Let's face it, there's never been anyone in a rom-com quite like Julia Roberts's Vivian Ward from Pretty Woman.
She worked those patent leather knee-high boots, she ALWAYS practised safe sex, and she worked for that fairytale ending (literally).
But it wasn't always meant to finish with a climbing-up-the-fire-escape-with-roses-in-hand romantic flourish...
Pretty Woman's screenwriter JF Lawton had originally written a much darker movie called $3,000, which according to Roberts was a reference to "how much money she got paid".
In the original script, Vivian was going to be addicted to drugs – a far cry from the Hollywood Boulevard hooker who cared so much about flossing her teeth in the 1990 Garry Marshall classic.
Instead, she was meant to have "blank and empty eyes" while staring out of a bus window as she fled to Disneyland with her pal Kit DeLuca.
Roberts told NBC's Matt Lauer that:
"At the end of the original script, Richard's character threw my character out of the car, threw the money on top of her and drove away and the credits rolled," she said.
After several rewrites, director Marshall changed it to a happier ending.
"My vision was a combination of fairytales – Julia was Rapunzel, Richard was Prince Charming and Hector [Elizondo] was the fairy godmother," he told Vanity Fair.
"It didn't seem like a vision everybody would have, but I did."
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