Why was the ending of These Are The Days Of Our Lives was changed?

Anyone remember the bit after the last line when Freddie exits the screen with a click of his fingers?

I hadn't looked at this in years but now find a small change where now the last we see of Freddie is when he says "I still love you" and then instead of the finger click Brian has been edited in.Why change what was just right?

The revenge of George "I don't like Star Wars" Lucas?

I could be wrong, but the whole video was re-edited for the 1999 Greatest Flix 3.

When the video was originally shot, Brian wasn't present, so shots of him are interspersed with the original footage from May 1991... the 1999 has some long shots of the entire band, to make it look like they were all present at that time.

Why the ending was changed i'll never know, but I agree with you, that little wave/click that Freddie did was quite a lovely way to end the video.

The original b&w video NEVER ended with Freddie's finger click. I remember watching it back in 1992 and it definitely ended with Brian's scene.

There are upwards of four different versions of this "short promotional film" i.e. "music video".

antiden wrote:

The original b&w video NEVER ended with Freddie's finger click. I remember watching it back in 1992 and it definitely ended with Brian's scene.

Define "original"

It was an edit piece, why would they keep it in? They were making a music video at the time, not showing the world Freddie had gone now.... because they didn't know this was the last footage...

I can agree with "mooghead" this time...unusual for me but he is right.

mooghead wrote:

It was an edit piece, why would they keep it in? They were making a music video at the time, not showing the world Freddie had gone now.... because they didn't know this was the last footage...

Your second sentence is absolutely spot on, because they wouldn't have known that this was the last footage of him. But "why keep it in"? - well, when it was re-edited, the "finger-click" is now known as his last footage, so it was absolutely right to keep it in. It is a very poignant moment, and just a fitting way to end things.

Well, filming someone as ill as Freddie was back then, I think they might have suspected it could become the last footage... Come on...

antiden wrote:
The original b&w video NEVER ended with Freddie's finger click. I remember watching it back in 1992 and it definitely ended with Brian's scene.

The 'original' version on my 1999 Greatest hits 3 laserdisc ends with roger and there is no Freddie wave.
The wave can be seen on these later colour mixes.
http://vimeo.com/29861968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3RJLOyGVf0

I seem to remember that the very first time I saw the video was on that docummentary hosted by Axl Rose (wasn't it also entitled "Days of our lives"?). It ended with the "premiere" of the promo film for TATDOOL and certainly the last shot was Freddie's finger click and waving. Hence any subsequent version with an alternative ending shot was not the "original" video, at least to me!

Vali wrote:
I seem to remember that the very first time I saw the video was on that docummentary hosted by Axl Rose (wasn't it also entitled "Days of our lives"?). It ended with the "premiere" of the promo film for TATDOOL and certainly the last shot was Freddie's finger click and waving. Hence any subsequent version with an alternative ending shot was not the "original"

But there is no wave on the premiere of TATDOOL in Axl Rose documentary?

Of course I seemed to remember not quite correctly :-)

Vali wrote:
Of course I seemed to remember not quite correctly :-)

Easily done LOL!

It's not a video I have watched all the way though much since 1991, but I remember the wave. The ending on that Axl doc looks like and edit for the advert?

What happened to the animated video anyway? :o)