 The film ends with the women dragging McBurney's body to the road so that he will be found by the next Confederate soldiers who pass by.Coppola had initially expressed an aversion to a remake, but after watching the 1971 version at the urging of production designer Anne Rose, she was left contemplating ways she could update the film.Specifically, she became interested in showing the story from the women's point of view, as opposed to the man's.