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so did she beep her old man?

posted 13 years ago by wcriblear-1
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she has a relationship with him, they're going to get married, am i to assume he sampled the milk before buying the cow?

[–] mascisman 13 years ago

According to the "Obsession Revisited" documentary on the DVD, Schrader and De Palma had originally intended for father and daughter to sleep together (which would freak her out and thus make her want to revenge herself on him all the more), but the producer then found that possible distributors immediately began to back away from such a controversial story. So they changed it into a dream sequence, and the viewer was left to decide for himself whether it really happened or it was only a dream. De Palma regretted the compromise.

[–] s007davis 13 years ago

I would say no. Earlier in the film she tells him that she is a good Catholic girl who obeys everything the Pope says so that would have meant "hands off" to him until after the wedding. I'm very glad that they were forced to change the wedding and wedding night to a dream sequence that never happened within the film's "reality".

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[–] geode 12 years ago

No. La Salle tells Sandra/Amy, "Well at least you kept him out of bed" when they're at the airport ready to send her back to Rome.

According to the booklet that includes Paul Schrader's first draft script (came with my blu-ray copy) Brad Stevens writes that in the director's initial cut that Michael actually did marry Sandra and there is a bold consumation of that marriage in this script. He explains that Columbia refused to release the film without changes suggesting that this all takes place in a dream. He says, "Presumably the scene in which Robert tells Amy 'At least you kept him out of bed' was originally supposed to imply that Amy had lied to Robert about sleeping with Michael, though Robert's line can now be taken at face value."

Oh Lord, you gave them eyes but they cannot see...

[–] Bilwick1 8 years ago

As we used to say in the Swingin' Seventies: Incest is Best.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Gross.