I'm curious, if you don't mind talking about it, what was the originally shot and intended ending?
The very first ending I wrote the order was: Babydoll was being lobotomized, she got chained in the basement, Sweet Pea escapes – well, let me back up. There's a scene you'll see on the Director's Cut with Jon Hamm. When Jon Hamm arrives as the High Roller – and we took this scene out because of the MPAA – when that guy punches Babydoll in the face, she wakes up in the High Roller's suite. He basically makes a deal with her that if she gives herself to him, and willingly and not against her will, then he'll give her freedom and get [her] out of that place. He'll make it so that Blue will never touch her and she'll be free. She's seduced by that concept, and right when they go to kiss each other, that's her being lobotomized. When they kiss, it's her being lobotomized.
The very end of the movie was: you see Sweet Pea steal a dress from a clothesline, then after she's lobotomized and Blue says, "Do you remember me? Take her downstairs," and then you see Sweet Pea getting on the bus, then after her getting on the bus, it cuts back to Babydoll in the basement and that whole scene happens of the cops taking him away. When he shines the flashlight on her, she gets up, and the camera dollies in on her and then goes around her head – and you see that she's on a stage in the theater and she signs "O-o-h Child" at the very end. After that, all the dead girls come out and they sing together, then the curtain closes. That's the end.
lease:
