Ki Wi i often think about the guy who played Elmo blach in shawshank redemption. Not a giant part, way less then judys, but just as fucking intense! And a King adaptation.
Nonofya Bidnez You gotta love this scene, though. The look on Deloris's face is priceless as she now realizes that her boss had her husband bumped off.
The teardrop at the end said it all. Its apparent her husband was a dog despite all the love, hope and life she brought to the marriage. He sucked all the oxygen out of the relationship and never reciprocated her love. Offing that scrub was a painful choice, but it set her free except that she is still haunted by the memory and this is probably the first time she made this confession and it obviously was a catharsis. As shocking as this was to Dolores hearing this, she immediately related and Vera's past suffering and her present dilemna blended into a wonderful but sad symphony of emotions and instantly cemented a deep and lasting friendship. Dolores got permission from Vera to commit the unthinkable and boy, did she run with it. One of the quintessential epic films of my lifetime, which I re visit every opportunity I get.
And not a single Oscar. Bates, Parfitt, Leigh, and Strathairn gave Oscar caliber performances and they were all bypassed by the Academy. Where's the loyalty?
A very intense scene!!! I love how she doesn't blink "Why? One is probably dying as we are sitting here speaking ::: cold fuxking stare:: Suddenly their brakes fail as they are driving home from their mistresses apartment! ::tears building up in that cold stare::: They die.... and leave their wives their money!!! ::: finally looks away, because she knows she killed him!:::
@@marquellascott1225 the only thing kind of DIDN'T work with Parfit's acting being so spot on was that it made a few of the others look not so great. Bates was close of course but Jennifer Jason Liegh, the actor who played the angry detective hell bent on revenge and Larry Rielly didnt seem to have the pace to keep up with Vera so i see why none of them had an actual scene with her.
Some things are better. I don’t think even in a little island town Joe could get away with the things he did. Not even with hitting her. I think she’d also have resources to help her leave him and Selena could get therapy to understand she did nothing wrong. But there are still mostly males making all the big decisions. Just today in Texas a male politician felt perfectly comfortable saying if a woman doesn’t want to be pregnant she should practice celibacy. And I’m just speaking from my little American perspective. There are plenty of places around the world where it’s EVEN WORSE for women than in this movie. I’d say overall it’s still depressingly masculine. But in some ways it’s only irritatingly masculine and in others there’s a fair balance and I imagine there are even some little pockets where the women have too much power.
Have you seen the actual movie? They were not lonely, they had each other. That's one of the cue facts of the crescendo when Selena defends her mother.
I remember feeling unsettled the first time I heard this. The preist was saying it to my soon-to-be-wife during the wedding ceremony. What really got me is he was only making eye contact with my wife.
There was definately another side to Vera which i wish they would have expanded on more. You could tell between the flashbacks and present day that these two woman had developed a friendship. You could also tell Vera was moved by Dolores's daughter being mollested and wanted to help. I believe if they spent more time on the friendship it would have been one of them teacher/student types of things where Dolores actually looked up to Vera and Vera saw Dolores as a younger version of herself or perhaps the daughter she never had. CGI wasnt much around back then so im curious how Kathy Bates we de aged the way she was? Any thoughts?
Bates wasn't "de-aged" ... in all the flashback scenes, that is what Bates looked like in 1994. It was the other way - She was aged with a makeup and wig to become the "old and craggy" Delores of the 'present-day' scenes.
I don't think she was de-aged for these scenes so much as aged for the present-day scenes. Her normal self is what we see in the past; a made-up, aged version is what we see in the present. They did a good job with it, though.
