In the movie "Twelve Monkeys" who understood the ending of the movie? (Its played by Brad Pit and Bruce Wilus)

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I dont really understand the last scene when the two main characters are in the airport, and if the virus has spead or not cause the man with the virus was on the plan. So I will appreciate some answers Please

Answer 1

12 Monkeys was based on an absolutely amazing experimental short film called " La Jetée" in 1962 from filmmaker Chris Marker.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056119/
The whole idea of time travel from a post-apocolyptic future civilization comes from the original movie. The main character in that film is also haunted by a random memory at an airport from his childohood (just like Bruce Willis' character).
In the last scene, in both movies, the main character witnesses his own death. Bruce Willis is the little boy watching the scene unfold (also seen in the very first scene of the movie). The memory that had haunted the character since his childhood was real and was actually the death of his future self that was sent back in time.
In 12 Monkeys, Bruce Willis and Madeline Stowe are at the airport attempting to escape forever when they coincidentally run into the bad guy who releases the virus. So yes the virus still spread as planned and history played out exactly as it had before, Bruce Willis did not change history when he went back in time b/c the virus was still released and humanity will still suffer for it. Yes the women he sits next to on the plane is the same woman from the future but it has to be determined that she was either on the bad side to begin with or changed sides and the virus was still released as it is implied that she did not stop it either.
Watch La Jetee, it is amazing. The films belong together and will help you to understand one another.

Answer 2

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In the movie "Twelve Monkeys" who understood the ending of the movie? (Its played by Brad Pit and Bruce Wilus)
I dont really understand the last scene when the two main characters are in the airport, and if the virus has spead or not cause the man with the virus was on the plan. So I will appreciate some answers Please

Answer 3

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In the movie "Twelve Monkeys" who understood the ending of the movie? (Its played by Brad Pit and Bruce Wilus)
I dont really understand the last scene when the two main characters are in the airport, and if the virus has spead or not cause the man with the virus was on the plan. So I will appreciate some answers Please

Answer 4

Changing sides? Jones' side was (and always was) that of the futuristic subterranean society that needed to learn more about the virus -- Cole (Willis) succeeded by steering Jones to Peters, and away from the Army of the Twelve Monkeys. On the plane, she acquaints herself with Peters, and the filmmakers leave to the imagination what she brings back to the future to help that society.

It's been a while since I'd seen Twelve Monkeys, but I don't believe anybody was infected at the airport (or on the plane, but an alternative might be that catching the virus is precisely how Jones brings back the virus to the future for analysis and development of a cure). Her business of "insurance" is to minimize continued suffering of her people and/or to make better their living conditions (e.g., relocation to the surface of the world).

Answer 5

The little boy in the airport was bruce willis as a child. He saw himself being killed as an adult. The man on the plane goes around to all these cities and spreads the virus. Basically. The scientist steals a virus and spreads it. The future tries to stop him by sending bruce back. But they think a group called the army of the 12 monkeys spread it, when it's really the scientist. Bruce discovers this, but too late to stop him. And the cycle begins again.

Answer 6

Yes, the virus was released, all the people on the plane were infected and spread it all over the world before they knew they had been infected. Willis saw the man entering the plane when he was a little child (as well as the attempt to stop the terrorist by his time-traveling double) and that is why he had flash backs to that moment during the movie. At the end he realizes that it is too late to stop the killing of most of humanity - a fate that he had known all along, subconsciously, because he was there as a child.

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Answer 8

It wasn't the fringe group at all. The virus had nothing to do with the monkies. It was the spies, and Bruce Willis was in the airport as a young boy.

"On their way to the airport, they learn from their cab driver that the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is a red herring; all they have done is to delay traffic by releasing all the animals in the zoo. Cole decides he has done his duty to the future. At the airport, he leaves a last message telling the scientists they are on the wrong track following the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, and that he will not return to his own time. He is soon confronted, however, by a fellow time-traveler sent by the scientists, who gives Cole a handgun and instructions to complete his mission. At the same time, Railly spots the true culprit behind the virus - Dr. Peters, an assistant at the Goines virology lab, who is carrying a briefcase full of vials, about to embark on a tour of the world's major cities. After fighting his way through security, Cole is fatally shot by police as he pulls a gun to stop Peters from boarding his plane. As Cole dies in Railly's arms, she makes eye contact with a small boy - the young James Cole witnessing his own death, the scene that will replay in his dreams in years to come.

Dr. Peters, safely aboard, sits down next to the lead scientist from the future (Carol Florence). After some small talk with Peters, she introduces herself: "Jones is my name. I'm in insurance.""

However, given that Cole could not prevent his own death. The same temporal paradox applies to Jones. It is possible to assume she either changes sides, or fails.

Answer 9

the virus was stoped here why because if everyone in the airport was effected that means young Bruce wills would be. now the doctor from the future came back to get a clean sample of the virus to make the cure. i think that the doctors said that the virus had mutated

Answer 10

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