I get so mad when people try to make a hero out of Claude Daigle. I don't care what anyone says- he wasn't someone to be looked up to or admired. He was a pervert. Claude wanted to marry his own mother!!! (you can ask the lady who cleans because she was present at the time) Ewww!!!!!!!! Please. Stop the hero worship- he doesn't deserve it.
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We don't know that that was something Claude said recently. Mrs. Daigle could be remembering something he said when he was much younger. It sounds more like something a two or three-year-old would say, when he would be young enough to be super-attached to his mother.
She's going to be clinging to every memory she's ever had of her son, not simply recounting the recent events that lead to his death like the rest of us armchair detectives.
You're the perv.
sharenot sure if troll or just stupid
so many movies, so little time
"Jimmy Stopsign" (if that IS your REAL name, Jimmy!! ) was a first class Troll in the old-school style. Nothing he, she or it says should ever be taken seriously. He was without a doubt sitting back and laughing like a diseased hyena at every serious response he got. Trolls like him are always extremely immature emotionally. So it's best to either (a) Ignore them completely or (b) Ridicule them mercilessly. Ignoring them is what really hurts them the most!
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Thanks for the explanation and instruction as to how to deal with a troll. Next time I will follow your advice and ignore.
I had to come to the defense of little Claude Daigle on my first post almost 10 years ago.
How mysterious and clever for the director to not cast the character of Claude Daigle in the film; but let the audience do our own casting in our minds.
Came back to this thread....because I am watching "The Bad Seed" for probably the gazillioneth time (right now @7:31 a.m.); since I saw it in the theater back in 1956 at 8 years old. It left a fascinating/confusing/scary effect on me then.
Sixty years later, after having read the book the film is based on; and reading real life accounts of children who were murderers..... it still does to this day!
"OOhhhooo....I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"
Yes, completely ignoring an Internet Troll is the best thing to do. Also, did you know here on the IMDb message forums you can "Ignore" a message forum poster who harasses or annoys you? At the top of each post is a tiny downward arrow with the word FLAG. Click on that and click on 'Ignore User'. Then you won't even have to see that particular user's posts ever again (they will be blocked on your account).
I agree not ever showing Claude in the movie forced the audience to use their imagination. I'm sure many people would swear that they actually DID see Claude in the movie! That's because their mental picture of him from having to imagine him created a lasting impression. I think probably the main reason he wasn't shown is because this movie is based on a stage play. In fact, if you think about it...Rhoda is never actually seen killing anyone!! I bet many people would also swear they saw her set Leroy on fire...but that is never shown. Same with when she killed poor innocent Claude. And the old lady she pushed down the stairs. We already know she was planning to kill "Aunt" Monica the next day when they would be sun bathing. So, as far as I'm concerned, Rhoda was a classic psychopath. No empathy, no compassion, no remorse. Killing was not wrong or bad to her it was simply a means to an end. It's all about getting her own way, all the time. That's her only goal in life. If it means having to kill someone to obtain what she wants, then that's what she will do. She doesn't kill for kicks or for fun. If she gets what she wants she doesn't need to kill. She hated Leroy but as she herself said, if he hadn't threatened to tell the police on her she wouldn't have killed him.
I was not allowed to go to the theater to see this movie when I was 8. But I so very much wanted to! I would have loved it. I remember all the grown ups talking about it, about how shocking it was.
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The way she so explicitly describes to her mother how she killed Claude Daigle; would make a vision impaired person swear they had seen her commit that heinous crime!
I see why some people would think they actually saw her do it!
I went with older cousins who were 13 & 14....that's how I was able to see it. They were responsible for taking care of me while my Aunt (their Mother) worked. Gosh...back then you could pay I think 25 cents to see a movie.....with children under 12...I think 10 cents. I don't think they rated films back in 1956. I also find it so interesting that in the scene before Christine gives Rhoda the 'vitamin pills,' she is reading to her from a book titled "Elsie Densmore". Here is an excerpt from that book on Wikipedia:
"Initially, Elsie does not live with her parents but with her paternal grandfather, his second wife (Elsie's step-grandmother), and their six children: Adelaide, Lora, Louise, Arthur, Walter, and Enna (Enna was the youngest). Elsie's mother died soon after giving birth to her, leaving her in the care of her grandfather. Before her father comes back she becomes good friends with Rose Allison, with whom she studies the Bible. Her father was in Europe until she was almost eight years old as the first book begins.
The first Elsie books deal with a constant moral conflict between Christian principles and familial loyalty. Elsie's father is a strict disciplinarian who dictates inflexible rules by which his daughter must live. Any infraction is severely and often unjustly punished. In her father's absence Elsie has become a Christian and abides by what she has been taught is Biblical law, especially the Ten Commandments (also known as the Decalogue). Her father regards this as ludicrous and in some cases as insolence. Elsie feels she must obey the Word of God before that of her father and can only obey her father when his orders do not conflict with Scripture."
I remember reading in the book this film is based on....that Rhoda won the Elsie Densmore, book in her Sunday School Class (hopefully my memory serves me right). How ironic the (Christian) subject matter in a movie about a little girl who murders; how very, very clever for the author to write this in the story line.....and how brilliant for the director to use it in the movie as part of a background scene!
"OOhhhooo....I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"
In the book he wants to sodomize his father,Sam Drucker.
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