He looked like he was about to rip her clothes off at any moment. :-/
The first time I saw this I'd only caught it about a quarter of the way in and I thought they were "together." Even after seeing the movie all the way through I am bothered by how he acts with her. For the most part I enjoy this movie but that guy bugs me.
"It's Minnie Pearl's murder weapon."
Struggle to get through the film when these 2 are on screen. Their personalities seem somewhat at odds to the kind of characters\people that Francesca and her husband appear too be. I find the brother\son in particular, very unlikable. He comes across as an abusive twit.....for example; the manner in which he talks to his wife.
Not sure the reasoning as to why they would be depicted in this way, (maybe it was meant to be humorous), but their characters are a liability and flaw the film as a whole. I usually fast forward the scenes in which they appear.
He looked like he was about to rip her clothes off at any moment.Yeah. They came across more as a couple who were dating than brother and sister. There's one scene where the son comes home from an evening of drinking. They're talking on the porch and just before his whips out a bottle of Jack he gives her a strange, 'I'd-like-to-get-you-into-bed'-type look that made me cringe.
YES! That scene in particular...he just looks like he is drunk and is going to smack her around and then rape her or something. Okay, maybe I am slightly exaggerating, but either way I agree that the scene you are talking about was very...bothersome!
"It's Minnie Pearl's murder weapon."
I disagree. I'm seeing it just now, the scene between siblings on the porch with the bottle. I didn't see any looks or behaviour that couldn't be normal between brother and sister. Siblings of similar age can be very intimate, no matter if they're the same sex or not. If you see anything out of the ordinary in these scenes, it's because you don't have a sibling who is close to you.
shareUm...I have two siblings who are very close to me. I still felt there was something off about the guy. I didn't get it from the woman, just from him.
So, no, your gigantic assumption that anyone who sees "anything out of the ordinary in these scenes, it's because you don't have a sibling who is close to you" is incorrect.
"It's Minnie Pearl's murder weapon."
Seriously? I think something was read into the character here that never remotely exited.
I mean really, it's possible had Bertolucci or Polanski directed the film, but Eastwood would have never allowed any possible indication of an incestuous relationship, for in his mind, it would have become the main storyline in the film, rather than the relationship between Francesca and Robert.
Eastwood's follow up, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was a non-fictional novel that was fill with sexual undertones and subplots, all of which were completely removed from the film adaptation.
I'm in no way saying that anything inappropriate or incestuous was implied. It wasn't at all. My discomfort is simply with the actor himself and the look on his face. I definitely don't think anything was implied at all but his acting bothered me and not having seen the opening of the film and having no knowledge of the plot it seemed to me that he was her husband or boyfriend. But I never for a moment thought there was any implication of incest!
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