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At the end of the 1993 movie, Holly Hunter's mute character Ada McGrath throws herself into the sea tied to her beloved piano. But rather than allow herself to drown, she fights back to the surface and goes on to have a settled life with her daughter, Flora, and lover Baines, played by Harvey Keitel.

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'I didn't have the nerve at the time': Director of Oscar-winning film The Piano wishes she had killed off main character in final scene

Oscar-winning writer Jane Campion said she regrets not letting her drown

Said her death would have been a more believable end to the movie Jane Campion said she wishes she had allowed Holly Hunter's character (pictured with on screen daughter Anna Paquin) to drown It won three Oscars and made $40million dollars at the box office, but the writer and director of The Piano said she wishes she could change the final, crucial scene. But rather than allow herself to drown, she fights back to the surface and goes on to have a settled life with her daughter, Flora, and lover Baines, played by Harvey Keitel. However, Jane Campion, who won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award, said if she was to film it again she would allow the character to drown. She told the Radio Times: 'I thought some of it was really good. But I thought: "For freaking hell's sake, she should have stayed under there." 'It would be more real, wouldn't it? It would be better. I didn't have the nerve at the time.' The film won the Palme d'Or Best Film Award at Cannes Film Festival and Hunter took the Oscar for Best Actress. Anna Paquin, who played her daughter, won the award for Best Supporting Actress - the second youngest to do so in the ceremony's history. Campion and Hunter are being reunited in a new six-part BBC2 drama Top Of The Lake, about the disappearance of a pregnant 12-year-old girl, set in a remote area of New Zealand. Speaking about The Piano plot decision, Hunter told the magazine: 'That was something Jane toyed with when we shot the movie, to end it there. The film was a critical and commercial success and both Paquin and Hunter won Oscars for their performances 'And she's still thinking about it! Me, I love that it's a reverie for Ada, not a nightmare or something that haunts her. It soothes her.' The BBC series also stars Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss as detective Robin Griffin, who is tasked with investigating the girl's disappearance.

Moss said she trained hard for the role.

She told Radio Times: 'I worked out and got some muscle, lowered my voice, learnt an accent and trained with guns. 'Robin is very much an ass-kicker... I run all the time and I don't like to run, I shoot guns, throw darts, chop wood and fish. 'It was shot at Lake Wakatipu, which is freezing, and I went in and I'm scared of the water. I don't go in anything where I can't see the bottom.'

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vibraphone, also called Vibraharp, or Vibes, percussion instrument that has tuned metal bars and is similar in shape to a xylophone. Felt or wool beaters are used to strike the bars, giving a soft, mellow tone quality. Suspended vertically below each aluminum bar is a tubular, tuned resonator that sustains the tone when the bar is struck. The special feature of the vibraphone, the one that gives the instrument its name, is a set of small, electrically operated fans above the resonators (and below the bars) that cause a vibrato effect by rapidly closing and opening the resonators. A pedal-controlled damper, consisting of a long strip of felt below each row of bars, can silence the bars, permitting the playing of short notes and unblurred series of chords. Cutting off the fans, changing their speed, or using hard mallets are other ways to alter the normal tone quality of the vibraphone. The vibraphone was invented in about 1920 and was soon common in dance bands and became a prominent jazz instrument. Its foremost jazz practitioners were Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson, and Red Norvo. The vibraphone was first used in the orchestra in Alban Berg’s opera Lulu (1937). The instrument’s compass varies; three octaves upward from the F below middle C is common.

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