TUNER Ending Explained And Spoilers | Leo Woodall | Havana Rose Liu | Dustin Hoffman | Tenderly Talk

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[00:00:00]All right, Eric Holmes, before we get out of here, Tuner, let's talk about the ending or just spoiler talk you want to discuss. I'm gonna yield the floor to you. Yes, sir.

[00:00:10]>> Yeah. So, he tries he gets caught or he ends up with a stolen watch from one of the jobs they did.

[00:00:17]>> He goes to his girlfriend. Girlfriend, the guy sees the watch >> and she does she didn't know anything.

[00:00:24]And then he realizes that oh no like >> and this up for her.

[00:00:29]>> The guy is a piano mro piano maestro played by John Renault. John Renault is watching the girl I think her name's Ruthie playing her.

[00:00:38]>> It's not a recital. She's playing her composition and she's playing for him in a crowd and the audience loves it. And then when they go to the office, he is going to accept her as his assistant because she's been trying to vive for a position as his assistant. And it's a very hard climb to make. And looks like she's making the climb. But he sees her watch and he realizes that her watch could be like Eric said, a watch that is from his family from the Holocaust. I believe Eric, go ahead.

[00:01:08]>> I don't know if there was that watch specifically, but certainly the other one that we're about to bring up. So yeah, he realizes that he messed this up for his girlfriend and he wants to make things right and look, she didn't know anything about it. I can't I acquired the watch. I gave it to her as a gift and she had no idea. They're like, "Well, I guess we got to call the cops and cuz he mentioned I think he mentioned the other watch." He's like, "Hold on. You said something about this watch." I was like, "Yeah, I can get that back for you."

[00:01:37]>> He's like, "Are you going to do that?"

[00:01:38]He's like, "Don't worry, I got this.

[00:01:40]I'll get it back for you." Just gets up and leaves.

[00:01:42]>> Yeah. Just don't press charges on me yet. Don't call the cops on me. I'm going to leave and I'm going to try to get the other watch and if I get the other watch, please.

[00:01:50]>> No, he didn't say I'm going to try. He said I'm going to get it.

[00:01:52]>> I'm going to get the watch. And master decides not to call the cops on him, which is very important. Yeah.

[00:01:57]>> And so what he ends up getting the watch with all this stuff happens with him and the >> the criminals >> criminals he was working with.

[00:02:04]>> They injure him at the middle.

[00:02:07]>> The weird thing about that is like, dude, just give me the watch. They're not going to call the cops. They're not going to do they're not going to do anything. Just give me the watch. I give it back to them. Worst case scenario, they get me in jail and you guys won't have to worry about anything, dude. Even if I write, you got plenty of lead time to get the hell out.

[00:02:22]>> He still gets ended up beating up. They still hit him really hard. He gets pretty bad.

[00:02:27]>> No. No. Because he brings up the Holocaust watch. Literally everyone is on his side except the main guy.

[00:02:34]>> Come on guy. They're like, come on. It's a Holocaust watch. This is bad juju. We don't want it anyway. Just give it to him. And then the the one guy was just so angry with him starts pulling the thingorn or something.

[00:02:45]>> Yeah, >> that would have messed up >> let alone someone with that that hearing sensitivity. That would have messed up just people with normal hearing or even bad hearing for that matter. But they do that and then it's hard to say what >> he's in the hospital.

[00:03:01]>> He's in the hospital.

[00:03:02]>> It wasn't just the it wasn't just the air horn. It looked like they cut away or applied. They were cutting his ear off, but it was hard to say what it was.

[00:03:11]They did >> a little bit of his lobe. Maybe they sliced it off. Maybe >> they did something.

[00:03:15]>> Yeah.

[00:03:15]>> But anyway, it becomes one of those things like he's in the hospital. It's all done up. But it's weird that he went through all that and then he finally gives the guy the watch back and then the last scene is him and his girlfriend and then he just sits down. He can play piano now. So say that that's why it was such a good ending because on its face it seems like a tragic ending but now here he is he had to go through all that and now he can play piano again. That's what he's always wanted to do but he could never do it because it's it it's too much for him. And then but now that he got basically tortured, beat up and they destroyed his hearing it destroyed it in a way that now he can go back to playing piano and the and which is what he wanted throughout the entire movie.

[00:04:01]We don't find that out till later on when him and his girlfriend go after each other. But when that revelation comes up, it made that it made the ending interesting because it's like a sort of a sad ending, but it's what the main character wanted. So, it's not a sad ending. It's one of those weird endings that not like a twist ending, but just like it it's I guess emotionally complex would be a word for it.

[00:04:27]>> Emotionally complex. Let me ask you a question, Eric. Do you think Nikki at the end of the movie, do you think he and Ruthie are together by the end after he plays her that tune? What where would you have seen? Do you think it implies that they might be together or do you think maybe?

[00:04:42]>> Probably not, but maybe they could get back together later on.

[00:04:46]>> Okay. I think they ended >> because I think when she found out what he was doing, that goes way against like that's not within her moral parameters.

[00:04:55]I don't think so. I think maybe there's a possibility that she forgives him, but I don't know that the relationship ever goes back the same way as it was.

[00:05:08]>> Do you think Nikki has it continues to be penalous at the end? Do you think he's going to still financially struggle now that he gave all of that money to pay for the medical debts of >> Harry who has since passed?

[00:05:20]>> Yeah. So, so there's that, but also now that he can play piano and he's doing it literally in a house with a guy that can help him out with that. I think that's I don't think he's tuning pianos anymore.

[00:05:34]>> Oh, very good. Well, I think >> I think he's I think he's a professional pianist from then on.

[00:05:39]>> I think he's going to continue being a tuner and he's going to Oh, okay. So, I'm going to tell you my read. Well, after he gets out of the hospital or while he's in the hospital, like Eric said, he is recovering. He finds that the watch they gave him back the watch even the bad guy even after he beats him up they I'm assuming he's gets beaten up so badly they have to take him to the hospital. So he and they end up taking him to the hospital. You don't see it on the camera but he recovers in the hospital and when he gets his effects he realizes that the watch that he was looking for is they gave it to him. So now he can give it to the maso. Before he leaves the hospital, Harry's wife, played by Toba Felcha, she tells him, I'm paraphrasing, she tells Nikki, "Whatever you doing, please stop. This is not good." Because she sees his face all beat up and everything. And then towards the end of the movie when Harry's wife, Harry's widow, she goes to her apartment and I think it's either a letter or a voicemail or whatever, he's telling her, "Please don't be mad at me.

[00:06:42]There's something in the piano and she opens I think the piano or she opens something.

[00:06:48]>> It was quick but I think it was like an upright piano. She opens the lid and the money's like just all >> there's all this money >> inside of >> So not only has he paid for the debt of the medical debt of late Harry, but he's scoring her with a lot of money. Do you know where he got all of that money from? Eric, >> you're assuming from his jobs, right?

[00:07:05]You're assuming from his >> Okay, there's one thing a little thing that a lot of people might miss.

[00:07:11]Remember in the middle of the movie or towards the end of the movie that he's trying to do a safe, open a safe and he opens the safe and everything's fine, but there's a whole bunch of people being loud.

[00:07:23]>> Oh, is that what the thing where the plane keeps going overhead?

[00:07:26]>> No, the plane keeps going overhead and the owner of that safe comes in and he's holding a gun to everybody and he's saying, >> "Yeah, >> whatever you do, blah blah blah blah blah." And he tells him, >> he tells Nikki, "You see this piece of paper? rip it up and put it in your mouth and eat it.

[00:07:42]>> Oh yeah.

[00:07:42]>> And that piece of paper are the crypto currency passwords that >> Oh, >> that he only that the owner of all that money has. That's why he's telling him to eat it because >> they kept showing him looking at it and it wasn't explicit, but he got the idea that oh, he's looking at it because he wants to remember it.

[00:08:00]>> Exactly.

[00:08:02]>> So, I do remember that scene. I do remember thinking that when it came through. I did not put that together until just now. So >> so the that owner of those crypto passwords, he eventually gets killed.

[00:08:13]All right? And they end up stealing all the stuff. But then Nikki remembers all of those passwords. So he goes back to his house, his apartment, and he enters all of those crypto passwords and he sees an amount, a cryptocurrency amount from the dead owner, and it says 18 million plus. So that guy has 18 million in his crypto account. Ultimately, those same guys, including the criminals, they call on Nikki to say, "Hey, you need to open up this crypto, this safe, because the safe will have all of that crypto information that they want." And they're telling him, "Come right now." And he's initially hesitant because his girlfriend Ruthie is having that recital or that composition piece, which is very important to her. So, there's two things going on at once. the towards the end of the movie, but ultimately he has to go and open that safe. If not, Ruthie's life is in danger. His life is going to be in danger. So, he opens up the safe for them. When he opens up the safe, they're happy because they have all of that information, that cryptocurrency information. And what's interesting, >> that really got under my skin because the just the way everyone was acting inside the like here's a thing we need done, get it done. I'm like, cool then.

[00:09:28]Shut the f up.

[00:09:30]>> Shut the f up.

[00:09:30]>> You have one job. You have one job.

[00:09:33]>> Making zero noise and he's constantly doing it. We're already dealing with this plane and you want this open so quick and here you are on your phone.

[00:09:42]Silence your phone. Do all this and then just constantly screwing up. Like they're constantly just basically being annoying. And then they're and then they finally get it open and then dude shows up. was like, "Hey, idiots, had you done what you should have done from the beginning, which is shut the f up, you totally would have got away with this."

[00:10:01]>> So, ultimately, that's that was the first opening. The second opening he that Nikki opens is the actual cryptocurrency information. And what's interesting is now they have the full ownership of the cryptocurrency. At least they think so. But like I said, Eric, when he memorized the passwords and he went to his apartment, the cryptocurrency amount was 18 plus, 18 million plus. And I looked again, I rewatched it. The second time they opened up the cryptocurrency. Now, in this the safe, the sum in that safe is not 18 million. It was 17 million. So, what happened was Nikki moved some of that money. As soon as he got access to the cryptocurrency, he moved at least almost a million dollars into his own account, his own.

[00:10:50]So, at the end of the movie, that's how Harry's wife gets all of that money in the piano. There's all that money that's from the money he made on that cryptocurrency transaction. Plus, we're assuming maybe Nikki left a little bit of money for himself just to live on a day-to-day basis and maybe continue life as a tuner. So, isn't that pretty cool?

[00:11:09]He That's another subplot of the movie.

[00:11:11]He ended up stealing close to a million.

[00:11:14]Not exactly a million. I try to work it out as around 930 $940,000 that Nikki has on his person. So, he's doing pretty well at the end of the movie financially if he didn't give all that money to Harry's wife. Another thing, Eric, you're mentioning Dustin Hoffman as Harry at the beginning of the movie. Harry is a lifelong lover of jazz. I'm a huge jazz fan as well.

[00:11:40]Couple of movie facts of Tuner. One of the first tracks on Tuner that's played is a song called Watermelon Man and that's by Herby Hancock. Okay, that's one of the first tunes that's played at the beginning of Tuner. Later at Harry's funeral service, at his reception after the funeral, there's a cameo by none other than Herby Hancock. He shows up in the party. So that it's a really nice nice little props because I love Watermelon Man. I love Herby Hancock.

[00:12:08]So, that's a nice cameo. Second thing, more even more important is towards the beginning, Dustin Hoffman, I think they're just hanging out, eating, and he's telling Nikki, Harry's telling Nikki, "Nikki, play a tune for me." And Nikki doesn't want to play. He doesn't want. And he goes, "Come on, you're the best. Play it." And Nikki, just play something. And then Nikki will just play one note. He just plays. And that's just one note. And he It sucks. You want Nikki to play for Harry, right? Of course, Nikki has no idea that Harry would pass away weeks later. But they cut from that scene to I think another scene where Harry mentions he says because they're at Harry's house with the wife and they're playing a song called Tenderly. It's a beautiful tune called Tenderly. And he mentions that Tenderly was the first ever his Harry mentions that his dad's favorite song was Tenderly. And he said, "Tenderly was the first song I ever played to sheet music." So that's how much Harry loves tender that song tenderly because that was the first song he played to sheet music. At the funeral service, the thing they play that song tenderly a little bit as well with I think Ruthie on the piano playing tenderly. At the end of the movie, the song Tenderly is played by Nikki as an ode and homage to his love for his mentor Harry Horowitz, but he doesn't play tenderly in a soft version. He plays it like a virtuoso. So finally at the end of tuner, he's finally open opening up to Ruthie showing, hey, I can play. I can really play. That's one thing. But he's also playing in the honor of his late father figure, Harry.

[00:13:59]He's playing the song tenderly. So, >> what was that last the last line just before it rolls the credits?

[00:14:06]>> Oh, something like the said something like the E flat or something, but like it so fast I couldn't quite make out what it was.

[00:14:12]>> That's it. No, you got it right. E flat.

[00:14:14]So, he's still a tuner. He was he played all that song and he realizes, oh, that's flat.

[00:14:19]>> Okay.

[00:14:20]>> So, that's a couple extra spoiler stuff.

[00:14:23]What' you think? What' you think of that?

[00:14:25]>> I dig it.

[00:14:26]>> You You dig it? All right. Any That is our spoilers for Tuner. And tell us what you think of this movie. And yeah, please support us on cinematics on our YouTube channel. We have a lot of stuff on this channel. Share, comment, subscribe. Me, Eric, and Bruce. We're doing a lot of spoilers on this channel.

[00:14:41]We're trying to reach a thousand 1,000 subs and 4,000 watch hours to get us monetized. And maybe, who knows, down the down the road, we might be doing some streaming stuff as well. And with Eric and Bruce at the helm, we'll see.

[00:14:53]That might be something I'll throw at Eric. Eric Holmes doesn't know this, but I'll mention that to him in a few moments. Anything you want to say before we get out of here, Eric?

[00:15:01]>> I mean, I would say go s go watch tuner, but if you listen to this part, you probably already have.

[00:15:07]>> Yeah. So, you can tune us out or maybe just you've been tuning us out for all this time.

[00:15:11]>> Yeah. Yeah, it was a good movie.

[00:15:13]>> Did that appreciate Did make you appreciate the movie more? Not really because it's still four and a half stars, right? Yeah, these actually that one part did go right over my head. So, I'm glad you told me about that. But >> yeah, >> that's hard. That's hard to pick off the >> I think the biggest thing was just Dustin Hoffman. I like the I feel like that character would have worked better in a different movie.

[00:15:33]>> No, I sort of liked him because of who he was.

[00:15:36]>> I liked him too. I'm not saying it was bad. I'm just saying like tonally it it fell off from the >> the rest of the characters in the movie.

[00:15:45]Like we said with Speed, Like we said with Speed Demon, like everyone's acting is a bit off, but they're all off at the same time.

[00:15:53]>> Dustin Hoffman seems off, but like he's everyone else is with this sort of tone and Dustin Hoffman's over here.

[00:16:00]>> And they're both great, but this when you put them together, like Dustin Hoffman's the one that stands out >> and probably not in a way that was intended.

[00:16:09]>> Well, maybe they also needed a movie tuner for this film for Tuner. Tell us what you think. Oh, you know what?

[00:16:15]>> What >> that? Okay, I do I like do Hoffman's character in this now.

[00:16:20]>> Why?

[00:16:21]>> He's the E flat.

[00:16:23]>> There you go.

[00:16:26]>> Love it. Love it. All right, guys.

[00:16:27]>> And it takes a a certain tuner such as myself to be able to point that out.

[00:16:31]>> See, don't you wish you guys were like Eric Holmes? Look at the new eyes. Look at the new eyes on that noggin.

[00:16:36]>> Five stars.

[00:16:39]>> That was the only thing holding it back and back the code.

[00:16:42]>> Are you really going to put Okay. All right. All right, guys. We'll see you here next week on Cinematics again. Thank you so much for your support.