kate and leopold ending explained

It will be over a century before he emerges from the fissure, into a world in which no one would believe his story but one man, who himself is taken for a madman. This inverts the end scenario, as they are rushing to bring about what might be inevitable--Kate's decision that she would rather be a duchess than a corporate vice president (was that a hard choice?). Stuart does not open them until after Leopold leaves--and this departure changes everything again.Heartsick that Kate does not love him or believe him, Leopold is persuaded to leap from the Brooklyn Bridge--not to oblivion, but to his own time.

One additional comment on the ring:  it might be thought that once Kate travels to the past, the Duke will remove the ring from the box. But as we discussed, someone will invent the elevator. Kate has gotten her promotion to Vice President in charge of the New York office of the company, and is attending a major celebratory dinner; not believing that Leopold could possibly be who he claims and not knowing that Stuart has sent him back, she leaves a message on Stuart's answering machine asking to see Leopold after the dinner. The man escapes into the crowd, but later turns up at the Duke's home, at a party at which the Duke is being pressured to select a wealthy bride. In science and technology, we say that certain things are This does present a problem to the film, however.

Leopold will meet Kate, and much of this part of the movie will be as we saw.While in the past, Stuart took pictures. This is not a pickup line (it might be that she thought so). The past has changed.This shows the other major problem with the changes Leopold makes to history at this point. That in itself gives his story credibility. As they plunge from the bridge, they pass through the fissure, and emerge in the present.We have the predictable comedy of errors as the displaced time traveler comes to grips with the fact that he really has come to the future. )But the story has not yet ended. It is not clear whether he will ever marry.This last point may cause trouble. The prefiguring is a mistake. Again the Duke pursues him, this time to the bridge, and falls into the future.That night, Duke Leopold vanished forever. He announces their engagement, and they marry.This anomaly is at least a sawtooth snap.

According to the fixed time theory, if the Duke is going to be sent back to the past at any point in the future, then he has already arrived in the past--if Stuart will fix the time continuum, he has already done so. The fissure is going to close soon, and we do not know if there will be another one in Kate's lifetime, or if it will lead to Leopold early enough to matter.

Stuart is injured, and so prevented from interfering with the relationship developing between Kate and Leopold, because the elevator in their building is not working properly.

The fixed time theorists would maintain that she was always there, each time, and so he saw her each time.

Leopold Alexis Elijah Walker Thomas Gareth Mountbatten, played convincingly by Hugh Jackman, is a nobleman, the Duke of Albany, among the last of a dying breed of true gentlemen in the late nineteenth century who sees the future in men like Edison. It may also be noted that Suppose, however, that in the absence of the Duke no one in the house ever considered the elevator more than a silly idea. That evening he attends the ball, full of his notions of nobility, dances with a number of less than desirable ladies (not all of them young), and retires probably without announcing anything. He is a more somber man; he is promising to marry the richest girl present for the sake of his family fortune, rather than standing by the principle that he cannot promise eternal love when he has never experienced momentary love; he intentionally does not pursue Stuart.

Leopold is a highly intelligent man and tries his best to learn and even improve the modern conveniences that he encounters.Leopold is an English and broken baron living in New York in the end of the Nineteenth Century.

Kate chooses a life with Leopold over her career, and the three of them escape to the Brooklyn Bridge. The credits list the roles as Kate McKay and Duke Leopold; the spellings of the full names, pronounced in the film, are my best guess, and might be contradicted elsewhere. Perhaps he did not recognize him right away; it was very foolish of him to then turn up at the Duke's party. Each of his children could be the ancestor of one of the key characters in the present, and that would mean that should the child cease to exist, so would the descendant. Stuart will open them in the future, and Charlie will see a picture of his sister. He goes back to the 19th Century and takes pictures of the place. Such accidents do happen.

But we have recognized that the movie suggests a fixed time theory (it is Stuart's explanation for why Kate is in the photos he took inside the Duke's home).