carol
Johnny's Best Irish
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Post by carol on Jul 5, 2011 12:59:02 GMT -8
I always get a little charge out of Delia's childish hair clips. I wonder whose idea they were.
Delia is supposed to be a childish, undeveloped human, so her hair clips, which often look like they belong in a child's hair, make an immediate visual underscoring of her childishness
Another child-like device Ilene Kristen uses is when she messes up her own hair. You see her do it sometimes, purposely messing it up when she is distraught in a scene.
Her hair was one of her acting tools.
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Post by destclev on Jul 5, 2011 13:26:52 GMT -8
I always get a little charge out of Delia's childish hair clips. I wonder whose idea they were. Delia is supposed to be a childish, undeveloped human, so her hair clips, which often look like they belong in a child's hair, make an immediate visual underscoring of her childishness Another child-like device Ilene Kristen uses is when she messes up her own hair. You see her do it sometimes, purposely messing it up when she is distraught in a scene. Her hair was one of her acting tools. Good observations. I think I understand why Ilene makes her hair messier, but I've never been quite clear on why Delia does it.
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Post by gladrags on Jul 5, 2011 15:20:37 GMT -8
Delia does it when she wants to seem helpless, or victimized, or needy. It's another one of her manipulations.
If I were Pat and I saw Delia with messy hair, I'd turn and run as fast as I possibly could.
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Post by lstef1983 on Jul 5, 2011 18:11:07 GMT -8
But then Pat's mind goes right away to the (most likely) messy, unkempt little girl she was when he first met her (I picture her, maybe unfairly, looking like Sooner). Which is her goal: his sympathy.
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Post by jwinks on Jul 5, 2011 18:58:16 GMT -8
I thought she was trying to look wild and sexy like how she loosens her robe etc.....
no matter how you slice it........it equals pathetic sadly however it seems to work for her?? LOL
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Post by Echo on Jul 5, 2011 21:23:31 GMT -8
I thought her barrettes were cute. I remember wearing pretty combs, to pull back our hair and little decorative barrettes, in the later seventies. They were just in fashion at the time, for long hair. Now regarding the messy hair....I wholeheartedly agree that this is Delia's Lolita prop. (and it usually works for her!) Surprisingly they did not write Seneca in the James Mason role, from the film Lolita, playing opposite Delia's role of conniving sex kitten. (Good thing that was avoided!) BUT.....along came Kimberly ...... so "Lolita" was yet another film RH used, as a plot device, in years to come. (With non other than Seneca in the James Mason role! Was the character's name Humbert, I think?!) -Echo-
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