The stimuli was an older woman, not that sort of stimuli…geezus… She was in the theatre and left the film during a conversation between the characters Nina (Natalie Portman) and Thomas (Evil French Guy, I don’t know his name but he was the evil French guy in Oceans 12 and 13 and Derailed too).
Well she got up and left and did not come back and my thought at the time was that she left to leave because the character Thomas said Firetruck and by firetruck I don’t mean firetruck but the first and last three letters of firetruck. Most everyone else thought she left to go to the potty or whatever. The person I saw the movie with didn’t even notice her leaving yet she was sitting in front of us. She didn’t make a scene just got up and left right after the Thomas character said firetruck in a way that suggested that he might want to have firetruck then.
Maybe I don’t suspend disbelief enough to think I’m actually there watching the events unfold and become unaware that I am in a theatre watching a story surrounded by others. I just don’t trust other people enough not to be a bit aware of them on some level, especially in the dark. I don’t think I’m all super in tune to things either, because I’m not really all that uber observant most of the time when the lights are on
So either way I just knew she wasn’t coming back to the movie. I didn’t dwell on it then because the movie was good enough to really hold my attention but in thinking about it later could the character Thomas have gotten his point across effectively with Nina without saying firetruck.
I think so and I think it may have added only a few more minutes to the movie no more than five and perhaps raised an excellent film to a more than excellent film and would have made for some really good character development for Thomas which was really only hinted at to this point in the film. This is not the fault of any of the actors, its’ all driven by writers and I didn’t see this character as being as crass as to say hey wanna firetruck but he was definitely a lothario.
So my thoughts now had he been more erotic and subtle or even made with the innuendo this scene would have had a helluva lot more weight and given a better direction for others scenes later in the film. There would have been a lot of added depth too all of the characters actions in later scenes.
I think the lady would have still left the film but maybe would have waited until Lily and Nina were … ah… well it was more Lily doing things to Nina and with different camera angles could have raised things to NC-17 or even other ratings. I’m not going to rewrite the scene, well not any more than I already have in my head, but I think it could have been done with more style.
The point being that we are losing our fondness for dialogue in film and hitting people in the head rather than making them think just a little bit. I know I do sometimes need things to be wrapped up in a brick and tossed at my head for me to get them but I like it more without it being all spelled out directly.
In other news
My third grader friend and I who are both not really in the third grade but we do laugh like third graders about, Mr. Hunt and Mr. Hawke both named Michael. Perhaps our hi-jinx are a little beyond the third grade. However they are likely to remain only on the third grade playground and not anywhere else. Mr. Hunt is wet and Mr. Hawke is like a rock. Mr. Hunt ran into Mr. Hawke. Mainly we don’t talk about Mr. Hawke because we both prefer to talk about Mr. Hunt. While I’ve seen Mr. Hawke I have not seen Mr. Hunt nor has Mr. Hunt seen Mr. Hawke but my friend has seen Mr. Hunt.
Still in other news
Do you even own underwear? I’m not complaining just making an observation.
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