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Carla Göteborg 'mourning' her husband


Pretty funny that in under 24 hours after her husband dies, she's back in remarkably good spirits. (scene where she apologizes to Lindenbrook & gives him all the equipment)

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I think her feelings toward her husband changed after she saw his diary and realized he had used Lindenbrook's information. While she is loyal to her husband, she is also a woman of honor and she knows her husband is a thief.

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That diary scene was so vague. Maybe audiences in the past were smarter than I am now, but when she read that diary out loud, I did not get the impression that she realized her husband stole the info—I don't recall it saying anything like that.

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Lol,I noticed the same thing, OP. Only a day after her husband's death, she was in jolly mood. But then again, she was a luscious woman. That old scientist couldn't satisfied her sexual appetites and needs. I bet she had a lot of young, tall, blonde Swedish lovers on the side.

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arlene dahl could not have been any hotter than she was in this subterranean voyage. extremel sexual allure. i dare anyone to disabuse me of this view. cant do it.

arlene dahl was it. even more than donna reed in wonderful life. cannot believe i said that.

stella stevens in advance to the rear. julie newmar in mackenna's gold.

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I think it's made fairly clear in what she reads. One page says:

New complication! My real adversary arrives: Lindenbrook. Undoubtedly to claim his rights. Must fight him somehow__


She realises that Lindenbrook's claim that the discovery was his must be true, and that's why she stops fighting him.



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

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Pretty funny that in under 24 hours after her husband dies, she's back in remarkably good spirits.

Seems a bit abrupt, I agree, but I think they were trying to demonstrate she had a 50s-concept "scientist" mind -- rational and unfuzzed by emotion -- and that's why she immediately took a practical course of action. It's also what unsettled Lindenbrook from the outset, because she wasn't acting how he expected a woman to act and he didn't know what to do.



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

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