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Post by galacticgirrrl on Nov 19, 2023 21:13:23 GMT
I think poison a very popular tool for women throughout history. Handy household item, easier to wield than a sword or gun.
Oh oh! Didn't count on Thuau. Clearly a very good friend to pursue the death when a wealthy family was involved.
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Post by Fading Fast on Nov 19, 2023 21:14:16 GMT
"Emile is dead."
Todd's reaction was perfect.
That entire scene is insanely well done.
"We are naked." The Dad's a roaring *ss, but he thinks several chess moves ahead.
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Post by Fading Fast on Nov 19, 2023 21:17:19 GMT
"There are some men here to see you in the drawing room."
"Send lawyers, guns and money, the sh*t has hit the fan."
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Post by topbilled on Nov 19, 2023 21:18:05 GMT
"Emile is dead."
Todd's reaction was perfect.
That entire scene is insanely well done.
"We are naked." The Dad's a roaring *ss, but he thinks several chess moves ahead. Agree. Some very good acting in that part.
The courtroom scenes, coming up, are equally great.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Nov 19, 2023 21:19:13 GMT
"Emile is dead."
Todd's reaction was perfect.
I thought the same thing. VERY subtle.
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Post by topbilled on Nov 19, 2023 21:23:10 GMT
Supposedly Noel Coward told David Lean that the film's main flaw is that the heroine is not depicted one way (as killer) or the other (as innocent).
I do wonder if they were boxed in by the British production code. If they had presented her as a murderess, they were not going to be able to send her to jail or have her hanged at the end of the movie, since the real-life Madeleine Smith got off. As a result, they had to keep things ambiguous and keep implying she may not really have been guilty, which means the story ultimately works in two separate directions.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Nov 19, 2023 21:23:36 GMT
Wickedly!? Is that a legal term!?
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Post by Fading Fast on Nov 19, 2023 21:27:04 GMT
How British, the maid curtsies to Todd as she enters the courtroom.
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Post by topbilled on Nov 19, 2023 21:28:22 GMT
In real life, Madeleine Smith did not marry the man her father had wanted her to marry. But instead married an artist (four years after the trial). She had two children.
Later, she was divorced and moved to the United States, where she met her second husband.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Nov 19, 2023 21:29:07 GMT
As a result, they had to keep things ambiguous and keep implying she may not really have been guilty, which means the story ultimately works in two separate directions.
Well I hate to disagree with Noel Coward but I enjoy the frustration of ambiguity in this movie, in the real life story....
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Post by topbilled on Nov 19, 2023 21:30:43 GMT
As a result, they had to keep things ambiguous and keep implying she may not really have been guilty, which means the story ultimately works in two separate directions.
Well I hate to disagree with Noel Coward but I enjoy the frustration of ambiguity in this movie, in the real life story.... So do I...I also like the idea that Emile may have really committed suicide, which suggests there are other things about his character we don't know. It gives us more to consider.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Nov 19, 2023 21:32:32 GMT
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Post by topbilled on Nov 19, 2023 21:33:28 GMT
Clever use of mini-flashbacks as we see snippets of witness testimony.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Nov 19, 2023 21:34:07 GMT
Odd that the errand boy all of a sudden changes his tune and knows the arsenic was for cosmetic use? He told the druggist at the time he had no idea. Someone has been briefed and or bribed.
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Post by topbilled on Nov 19, 2023 21:35:27 GMT
There goes Mr. Minnoch, exiting the courtroom. Never to be seen or heard from again.
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