YELLOW JACKET...YELLOW JACKET...YELLOW JACKET
I wonder what the director was trying to remind us of with those subtle "hints."
shareIt was 'YELLOW JACK'. That's what they called yellow fever.
No hidden message there.
"If I don't suit chu, you kin cut mah thoat!"
LOL, OP was being sarcastic.
But you are, Blanche. You are in that chair!
Too bad it was a sarcasm fail.
shareI personally think that little sequence was sort of silly and distracting from the dramatics.
shareIt was just as dramatic as everything else in the film. The repetition in capital letters simply emphasizes the danger, the spreading, and the ubiquitousness of the disease. It's the kind of literary and intelligent emphasis that is missing in most contemporary films. Films made during the classic era didn't assume that everyone in the audience would understand what "yellow jack" was or how dangerous it was (much as the way footnotes do in literature anthologies). Today's audiences wouldn't either, but film-makers today are so superior that they would just assume that any audience member who didn't get the significance just as well didn't deserve to understand it. If you're not already clued in, they don't bother to clue you in.
"The answers to all of life's riddles can be found in the movies."