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Allure of the red car

posted 15 years ago by buy_to_own
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It seems to me that Bardot's "contempt" for Piccoli was actually self inflicted. She seems to be enticed into the commercial fast lane by the allure of Jack Palance's red car well before Piccoli makes any suggestion for her to travel off alone with Palance on the ill fated journey to the country house.

[–] Child_OfThe_Moon 14 years ago

Do you mean because she walks over it before he asks her to go with him? I thought she did that on purpose to entice him into asking her, as a way to test her husband.

[–] Etherdave 10 years ago

She wanted her husband to protest, to oppose, and to display jealousy towards Prokosch's attentions. That didn't happen. And so she was pissed. Mightily.