So, Theo digs chicks, right?
Seems like she has a kind of attraction to Nell, and she lives with someone else, but didn't specify if it was a man or a woman.
So she digs chicks, right?
Yes. Nell calls her a 'freak of nature'. It's a little more evident in the book.
"No fate but what we make." -Terminator II
Yes. Nell calls her a 'freak of nature'.
When Nell called her that, I thought it was a reference to Theo's psychic powers.
But thanks for confirming my suspicion. My wife and I watched this last night, and she thought I was a just another dirty old man with girl-on-girl sex fantasies.
Now I can tell her that even though I am indeed a dirty old man, the lesbian thing with Theo was not my imagination. share
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In the novel, there are some indications that Eleanor is interested in Theo too, although she has trouble admitting that even to herself. You could argue that it's just a need for friendship, or it could be something more.
This commentator on the '63 version is quite sure of Eleanor's orientation:
http://www.lgbt.co.uk/cinema/362-the-haunting-1963
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That was a good write up but I have my doubts that Eleanor has matured enough to know her own mind. She is a nothing. In the book it is the decision she cannot make between Luke and Theo. That inability to decide is what destroys her. The film switched the triangle to Markway, Theo and Eleanor but the problem still remains.
shareWell, it's not quite that she can't make up her mind. In the book she rejects Luke but he doesn't seem to care that much. Then Theo rejects Eleanor. There's a scene where Eleanor asks to move in with the other woman, and Theo turns down the idea of any extensive post-Hill House relationship. (Although, only about six days have passed since they met.)
shareNo, Eleanor pursues Luke. Which makes Theo jealous.
There is a whole motif in the book that has Theo associated with the color green. After Nell's disappointment with Luke, Theo swoops in to flirt with him. This hurts Eleanor immensely and adds to her mental distress. By the time she asks to move in with Theo, she has already lost her mind.
An angry Nell called her "one of nature's mistakes" in a pointed way that didn't seen to be referring to Theo's psychic abilities.
I never "got" the implication that Theo was a lesbian until I saw the film as an adult. I was 9 or 10 when I first saw it.
Get me a bromide! And put some gin in it!