The Mildred / Bette Davis Character

I am just talking about the movie. If we just talk about the movie alone IMO he was sexually obesed. The other women in the movie treated him very nice, but he dogged them. Now this is just the movie. The book is another story. Please don't get me started on Mr Philip Carey

The movie leaves out most of the beginning of the book. In the book he doesn't seem so nice either. His mother dies and his father is already dead. They send him to a uncle and his wife is a vicar. They have no children but they try to treat Philip well. All he has to say is nasty things about the wife, how she looks etc.
They send him to school and he is teased but soon that is over with. And he gets honors for being a good student. He does make a good friend who he treats with contempt he has nothing good to say about anyone. He gets mad because the friend finds another friend. When this friend tries to befriend him again he turns away from him. Then they let him leave the school because he is not happy and he works at a accountant. He has nothing but bad things to say about his boss and co workers. One who was nice enough to have him go with them to Paris where he tries to show him a good time.
But before that he moves to Germany and he has nasty things to say about the people in the boarding house but befriends one man, who he also had nasty things to say about before he knew him. But that man goes to Paris. All along no one is really bothered by his foot but him. Then he goes along with the gossipers who are against the young girl and her relationship with the chinese man, making fun of him too. Then he goes back to the vicar and demands to go to Paris. His Aunt gives him the money she has left in her account so he will not pawn his dead fathers stuff. Then and only then does he realize she loves him. He even says earlier that she loves him because he made her suffer, which was wrong. But wait a minute we must not forget how he treats Miss Wilkenson. He obviously slept with her and then talks about how ugly she looks. She is in love with him and all he does is ignore her. She writes him in Paris and he doesn't even open her letters. Then has nothing but contempt for Miss Price because she is strong willed, but she is also very poor and he makes comments about her poverty.
Oh his foot is so bad he turns out to be a such a good tennis player that he makes a nasty comment about the other players while he is trying to talk to the young girls that visits the vicar. This man is a contemptable gnome. And since I read the book I think even then before there is something wrong with him. And it has nothing to do with his foot.
You see I can't get past the way he treated Miss Wilkenson. She let him be himself and she treated him nice. She loved him. And yes he has the right to reject her. But the way he acted was reprehensible. So when Mildred comes along she kind of treats him the way he treated Miss Wilkerson. I do not think it has anything to do with her letting him be himself. Because she didn't like him as himself. The other women did though.
I think they should remake the movie and put some of the beginning of the book in it. There are some very interesting characters like his friends in Paris, Miss Wilkenson, Mis Price, and his Aunt and Uncle. His stay in Germany. Some of his teachers. They really did not do the book any justice.

A funny bit is where Bette/Mildred is in the hospital and she just had the baby and she says "Funny little looking thing isnt it? Cant believe its mine" that made me laugh lol :P