Chastity Pariah's Fate

i dont know if i should take this seriously, or laugh, or if i should avoid eye contact with you and hide all the sharp objects.....
kinda reminds me of the stuff people come up with when theorizing what Tori Amos lyrics might mean... or even worse... it kinda reminds me of charles manson's prophetizing about beatles lyrics and the apocalypse..

perhaps if youd elaborated on your sources id be more inclined to.. not think youre just.. ya know.. wacked out of your gourd... lol.. or bong.. as it seems....

regardless.. the OP was a bit nutty for thinking so much about what happens to characters in a movie such as this after it was all over... ... i wonder if they often lay awake at night worrying over the fate Earl Longhorn.. did elvira really break his toes with her heal? did the bones grow back crooked? was he scared for life? and what about that ancor woman? did she lose her job when her hair fell off on air? and the station? did it lose money from that fiasco? did it have to shut down? did that makeup-lady have to find a new job? did she have kids? did the kids go hungry? did they have to turn to a life on the streets and sell crack? and the two kids who got together in the theater? did they end up getting married? did they have kids? did they move out of the town? did the kids look more like him or her? if it was a boy did they circumcise them? later in life did that cause emotional trauma? and Ema Hellsubus from haunted hills... did she survive the collapse of the castle? did she have to spend agonizing months trapped in that iron maiden under all that rubble? slowly starving to death?.. did she try to catch rats or bugs? where did she go to the bathroom? did it smell after a while? did she get enough oxygen? perhaps she suffocated? or did the spikes work and she instead slowly bled to death?
and what about that poor innkeeper from the start of the movie? did Elvira not paying for her room hurt his business? was he ever able to recoup his losses?

yep. silly.

Worldofbong,

Very nice answer - it's rare to find someone literate and articulate enough to discuss fine artistic points in pop-culture films. Although I would initially hesitate to say that the transformation into pigs is a definite reference to Legion (cf. Circe), in the context you've provided, it works. I think your explication of Chastity Pariah's name is very reasonable. Well done!

exodus_laughing,

In the same way that you're entitled to your opinion as to the merit of what happens to characters in a movie such as this after it was all over, so are the rest of us.

You might take a moment to consider that Chastity Pariah was not a minor character, but one of two primary antagonists, and that her ultimate "fate" is not resolved (as it is with Vincent's). I'm sure there were people who left Star Wars: A New Hope in 1977, wondering what ever happened to Darth Vader - I mean, his TIE fighter just spins out into space and that's it. In fact, there are plenty of movies and television series that fail to provide closure on major characters (cf The Thing, American Werewolf in London). I think The Sopranos is probably the most "famous", recent example of such a scenario.

I'd say there are probably more people who want to know "what happened" then there are who go, "Hmmm, it's over, time to stop thinking about it."

Wow, photoenthusiast, THANKS for posting this. It's very interesting information.

Like the OP, I also wondered about what happened to the three little piggies - I hope exodus_laughing isn't too disappointed that I didn't exactly lie awake at night wondering about it, but Chastity Pariah was a significant character in the story, and story-telling interests me in a film above most other considerations - it doesn't need to be a major work of art for the story to be seen through to its finish in all aspects.

Funny, though - I've just watched the movie again for the first time in a fair while, and I didn't see any cut of the three in the back of a farm truck - are you sure it made the final print? In fact, I was half expecting to see the three piggies with Gonk at the side of the stage in Las Vegas - maybe with wigs and fishnet stockings, or bling, or somesuch. Or maybe a shot of Patty, in Petticoat Junction-type clothes, mucking out a sty on a farm, with a very sour look on her face.

So I was left with the same question as the OP. I wish they'd included something to tie off that tiny hanging thread at the end of the flick.



You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

I like the deleted scene above, but perhaps funnier would have been Elvira hosting a luau.