The co-screenwriter of the movie Wicked: For Good is opening up about the meaning behind that final shot of Ariana Grande‘s Glinda with the Grimmerie at the end of the movie.
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At the end of Wicked: For Good, Glinda believes that Elphaba has died and she has been entrusted with the Grimmerie, the magic book of spells. Even though she doesn’t know how to read it, Elphaba gives Glinda the book and encourages her to learn.
In the final moments of the movie, Glinda is looking at the book and it magically opens for her, seemingly signaling that she either has earned the gift of magic or Elphaba has given it to her.
Dana Fox co-wrote the movies with Broadway writer Winnie Holzman. She opened up about that moment in a new interview with Deadline.
“The other thing that kills me dead is when Elphaba gives Glinda the Grimmerie and Glinda finally says, ‘You know I can’t read that.’ I die. To me, that performance and the fact that she says that and has that moment — that is her deepest shame,” Dana said. “In the film, we created the scene where you see her as a child, her deep want and need, and the original wound she has, and you understand how hard it is for Glinda to say she can’t access that magic. That’s the hardest thing for her to say and admit.”
She added, “The fact that she admits it, to me, is why I think she earns the Grimmerie opening to her at the end of the film, which is also not in the play.”
Dana still is leaving it open for interpretation.
“Winnie and I are desperate for all that to be open to everyone else’s interpretation. And we love how much people feel like they can find themselves in these movies, and they can figure out whether they think it means this or that. And at the end, when Elphaba smiles and you can’t tell, it’s like, did she open it for her? Does she know that it opened for her? Did she feel it opening for her? What is that? That should be everyone’s moment to decide how they want it to be and how they feel about it. I get chills just thinking about that ending, though. I love it so much,” Dana added.
The director of Wicked is also opening up about the very final shot of the movie, with Glinda whispering into Elphaba’s ear.
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