Did I miss something, but wasn't Laura smuggling diamonds out under her fingernails? One dropped on the ground in reception and the security people came running towards her, then it was never referred to again??!!
shareThat, my dear, was a dream scene - not real - as if to clarify the heroine's secret desires to steal and then she get's caught... got it?!
shareOK.... thanks for that. I must have dozed off momentarily and woken up in the dream scene, ironic hey!
shareThat couldn't have been it, as you only discover it was a dream scene in the end when she wakes up. I was thinking, "OMG, what the *beep*!" when she was arrested, but of course then she woke up and the story continued. And you didn't realise it was a dream. Amazing.
shareYes, there was an obvious dream scene where she had a lot of diamonds under her nails and was caught, then she woke up. But there was another scene where she is putting a diamond under her nail, checking it out, and I believe she walks away with it. Definitely not a dream scene.
shareShe doesn't walk away with it, she wraps it in her handkerchief along with her earrings.
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She was at home when she was doing that. It was her earring. But she was thinking about how easy it would be to do it at work with their diamonds.
The scene was showing that she was already receptive to the idea of heisting diamonds. She didnt just turn from goody two shoes to hardened criminal overnight.
Were the diamonds able to be popped in and out of her earring settings? Pretty bad jewelry construction IMHO. If the diamonds were real, who would want to have loose stones? If she was she rehearsing how to palm off a loose diamond under her nails, she'd need to have candle wax on hand and warmed for her to stick them behind the nail.
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Hardest substance on earth, and rather sharp and jagged... might die of internal bleeding before you "recovered" them... then again there's always ye olde vibrating dildo, batteries removed, lol.
shareI know this is an old topic but if anyone is hanging around over this movie I'm going to add my two cents.
I believe Laura Quinn was occasionally stealing a diamond or two. But she was careful and she smuggled them just as you saw; in her earrings. They were designed by a jeweler to do just that.
You see her examining one of the stones at her dining table. As jewelers do she used a bit of wax to support the stone on the tip of her finger to look at it.
An aside: for an exec who happened to be female and had hit the "glass ceiling" she was in fact doing very well for herself in terms of material goods; expensive jewelery (all of the jewelery featured in this film was fabulous), silk lounging pajamas, great furniture, a beautiful flat in central London, paintings on the wall, expensive toiletries by the claw foot bathtub to die for, jazz records on the phonograph. Wine with dinner. Very well indeed.
The dream sequence was a window into her steely veneer; she was afraid she would get caught and the whole thing would crumble.
What was great was her wrapping the earring and stone in a handkerchief. This is something I haven't done for 40 years and it was typical back in the 60s to do just that. A very nice detail.
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