She lives on in our hearts forever.
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She really was my favorite character throught out the whole movie. She saved the team more that once and never was a liability. She was so close, but that horrible man had to kill her :(. It was right up there with old yeller with me... Poor Gertrude!
WE LOVE YOU!
I'm sorry, but I felt that Gertrude was simply adequate, and never fully lived up to my expectations. For example, in the scene in the barn where she meets up with her long-lost love, Hans, there is simply no chemistry. A quick peck to convey what should have been an emotional reunion? It's like she barely registered that he was there.
A few years ago, I read the "making of" documentary and found that she was difficult on the set, too. She often wandered off and it sometimes took days to find her. In fact, it was so bad--and they were so constrained by the budget--that they ended up writing it into the screenplay. (Talk about laying an egg!)
So much for a character that was supposed to get top billing. After all the hype, it ended up as quite a downer.
However, it must be said that she gave her best performance the year after the film was completed. She was the featured guest at the annual Friars' Roast and I hear she was simply delicious.
lol alien quite funny there... but Getrude had charisma and heart which you don't see in films today. Poor thing... I have wanted a pet duck since I have seen this movie, and if I ever get one it's going to be named Gertrude.
shareI too was a fan of the duck. But, having pet ducks as a kid around the time this movie was first released, I have to reveal the worst spoiler of all for all you fans [stop reading now if you are a Gertrude groupie]... In at least half of its scenes, the duck was a drake in drag. This includes the first time HE opens his beak wide and vocalises, in the arms of Hans, on seeing Alec and the professor emerge covered in feathers. Or check out the moment near the end when he strides across the scene past Count Saknussem, uttering several authoritative slow "quaarcks" that no female duck ever managed. Maybe, as with Lassie the dog, the duck wrangler knew that males were more easily trained, or maybe there was a shortage of presentable females. Fortunately this was a forgivable goof, in one of my all-time favourite movies. My brother and I saw it twice in the same week, dragging along the whole family the second time!
shareSo much for a character that was supposed to get top billing. After all the hype, it ended up as quite a downer. - AlienFanatic
yeah, such a sweet duckie and my favourite character, too
shareWhen I was a kid, saw this for the 1st time on TV, I was positively devistated when I saw the blood and feathers. Poor Gertrude!
shareI'm sure I'm not the only one who cheered when those rocks came down, just because of what he'd had for lunch.
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I totally agree. She lit up the screen in every scene she was in.
Poor Gertrude! Good thing that evil man got his in the end...
I found her performance to be riveting.
shareI loved that duck! She helped them find that passageway. Everyone seemed to like her and see her as part of the team. But before I finished the movie, I saw a comment on YouTube that said the duck died. I almost didn't finish the movie. I was afraid that they'd just decide to eat her one day, but at least it was the villain that did it. When the dinosaurs appeared, I was half-expecting her to get eaten by one of them.
sharelizards not dinosaurs
suzycreamcheese RIP Heath Ledger 1979-2008
lizards not dinosaurs
suzycreamcheese RIP Heath Ledger 1979-2008