And then while smoking a long cigar, he vaguely introduced himself to the card players gathered around him:Well, you boys don""t know nothin"" about me, and I don""t know nothin"" about you...I went to see the doctor.And he says as a result of that scrap, I""ll probably have to have a kidney and my gall bladder removed.The classical Greek mythic elements of the film have also been commonly observed:the Electra complex of thefemme fatale- exhibiting an overwhelming possessiveness for her beloved fatherthe memorable horseback ride to scatter her father""s ashes from an urn held at her waist, resembling empowered female Hippolyta (with a magic girdle)the disturbing murders of her husband""s younger brother and her own unborn child, resembling Medea - a figure of great intelligence, skill, plotting manipulation, and vengeful cold-blooded murderObsessed with possessing her newlywed husband entirely to herself, she committed three ghastly murders to have her way - the deliberately neglectful and passive drowning murder of her own crippled brother-in-law, a do-it-yourself miscarriage by tumbling down stairs, and her own suicidal murder via poison to jealously implicate (after her death) a romantic rival - her own adoptive sister/cousin.There were ""rumors"" that MGM filmed a tragic ending and then did a reshoot, but that did not occur.MGM""s producer Irving Thalberg reportedly was the one who insisted that the film have a happy, conciliatory and romantic ending between the two leads (although female scripter Frances Marion protested), and all existing original drafts of the film shooting script reflected that resolution.