Married someone else
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msreader — 10 years ago(June 19, 2015 02:09 PM)
I think it could have had something to do with her wanting children, the married life, etc. He would have never slowed down with the digging and children would have been an issue for him, I think. I'm glad they remained friends, at least.
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Blue_Eyes_James — 10 years ago(June 20, 2015 07:08 PM)
A professor and a graduate student. Doesn't always work out.
And despite the movies throwing two people together in danger, just as likely it changes people. In the book they were "indefinitely detained" by the Costa Rican government, to kep the island's secret. Though they said they would "probably" let the kids go home. of course Hammond and Malcolm were dead at the end of the first book. -
gloria_e_evans — 10 years ago(June 24, 2015 11:36 AM)
I think she wanted kids and just settle for her generic husband. Did anyone see the look of longing on her face when Alan was pulling out of her driveway. It was a look of what could have been. Alan was unattainable and had no interest in being domesticated. He would have been miserable.
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americanadian25 — 10 years ago(June 24, 2015 01:39 PM)
The whole they didn't end up together because Grant not wanting kids always bugged me. By the end of the first movie, Grant had warmed up to kids, also shown in the way he played with Ellie's son. Granted, that doesn't mean he suddenly would want to be a father (many people like kids but still don't want to be parents), but I don't know just seemed like a betrayal of his character development from the first film.
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jajceboy — 10 years ago(June 29, 2015 11:03 AM)
As stated, Ellie wanted to settle down, raise kids, live suburban life. Alan wanted to dig. That's the difference. Some people don't want children and that's that.
Sometimes relationships doesn't work out and the love of your life slips away.
I like it that way. I never saw them as a couple in the first one so it works for me. -
smokescreensemerge-538-372043 — 10 years ago(September 02, 2015 05:38 AM)
It was the attitude Grant had towards children. It was almost a know it all pre-teen version of me where I thought "I was a know it all" and would do my part to reduce the world population and not have kids. But the mature approach would consider the emotional and social well-being rewards of having children.
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jajceboy — 10 years ago(October 17, 2015 03:11 AM)
I never got the impression that Ellie and Grant were a couple to begin with, so it's OK for me.
I mean they never kissed or hugged,not even after "reuniting" in the end.
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puirt-a-beul — 10 years ago(October 28, 2015 07:07 PM)
Alan Grant is not married to Ellie Sattler , Why ?
I've been rewatching the films in sequence, and noticed something at the end of the first one I hadn't really taken in before, that I think answers your question:
As they're being evacuated in the chopper, and Alan is sitting with Lex and Tim tucked under his arms, he looks across at Ellie, their eyes meet, and he smiles as if to say, "See? I can change." Ellie looks at him contemplatively for a moment, then breaks eye-contact and looks away sadly. And it's clear at that moment that
she doesn't want him anymore
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Ellie has changed as well. Dinosaurs were one thing when they were dead and fossilised in the rock, but when they're alive and eating people it's a whole different proposition, one that she doesn't want to be part of. She knows that if she stays with Alan, she also stays with the bad memories.
So it's no surprise that when we see her again, she's married to a non-scientist who's rich enough to provide for her and let her give up her career.
Some feminist, eh?!
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ShizaMinelli — 10 years ago(January 05, 2016 10:51 PM)
Is marrying and having children only anti feminist if the Peterson you marry is also wealthy?
Or perhaps it's worse to make assumptions/judgement calls about a character being "enough" of a woman based on 2 scenes in a movie
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dogned — 10 years ago(December 17, 2015 03:51 AM)
I just finished watching this movie for the first time, having wanted to watch the whole series after seeing Jurassic World. I'm really disappointed that Ellie went on to marry someone else. It was clear in the first movie that they were attracted to one another. The whole Alan 'not wanting kids' was addressed and he had warmed up to kids by the end of the first one. That was the obstacle keeping them from not being a couple so I was really surprised to see she had married someone else. It sucked.
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Moonlighty — 10 years ago(February 23, 2016 07:56 AM)
It wouldn't be surprising that a couple into each other in 1993 wouldn't be together in 2001, but I didn't see the point in writing it that way. Obviously the writers chose to break them up despite it not apparently having value to the plot that I could see. Alan could have still called her for help if they were married. It just seemed like another jab at fans honestly. "Oh you wanted Alan and Ellie together? Oh you like the T Rex? Oh you don't like talking dino hallucinations? Well screw you."
Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that I'll be over here looking through your stuff.
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halken_no1 — 9 years ago(June 18, 2016 04:00 AM)
Relationships are usually destroyed by traumatic events. Their love was a memory of dread and horror that they would have constantly lived through if they were still together. The break is to find solace and closure from such events.
It's therapeutic to stay apart.
Just look at what happens to couples when their newborn dies etc. Same thing.