By the end of Netflix’s new fantasy feature film “Damsel,” Elodie (Millie Bobby Brown) and the mother dragon (voiced by Shohreh Aghdashloo), who she battles for most of the story, share a ride — or a sail, rather — off into the sunset. It’s a happy ending, hard-earned through their prolonged encounter in the caverns where the dragon lives.
Scribe Dan Mazeau unpacked that “Damsel” ending, and he wants viewers to embrace the unknown nature of the duo’s fate at the end of the film.
“The story of their lives has not been written yet as they’re flying away. [We wanted] to leave you with this idea that we’ve been through our inverted version of the fairy tale. It’s our inverted version of happily ever after,” Mazeau told TheWrap. “As opposed to the idea that nothing’s going to happen, the idea is anything could happen.”
“Elodie wants to travel the world, the dragon has been effectively locked in this emotional prison for hundreds and hundreds of years,” he explained. “It ends with, as opposed to the confines of the cave, as open as it could possibly be.”
By the end of Netflix’s new fantasy feature film “Damsel,” Elodie (Millie Bobby Brown) and the mother dragon (voiced by Shohreh Aghdashloo), who she battles for most of the story, share a ride — or a sail, rather — off into the sunset. It’s a happy ending, hard-earned through their prolonged encounter in the caverns where the dragon lives.
Scribe Dan Mazeau unpacked that “Damsel” ending, and he wants viewers to embrace the unknown nature of the duo’s fate at the end of the film.
“The story of their lives has not been written yet as they’re flying away. [We wanted] to leave you with this idea that we’ve been through our inverted version of the fairy tale. It’s our inverted version of happily ever after,” Mazeau told TheWrap. “As opposed to the idea that nothing’s going to happen, the idea is anything could happen.”
“It’s about taking these traditional knight-in-shining-armor stories and exploring them from a different perspective, and part of that is not just saving yourself but also becoming the savior for somebody else,” Mazeau said. We wanted Elodie to go through the entire arc of a hero, starting from somebody scared to becoming somebody strong.”