I know this might sound crazy but if someone that "nice" and hot kidnapped you would you mind? I mean he was a soft spoken, good looking, 26 year old man I don't think it would be that bad...
Anyway I'm only half way through with the book but it is excellent! Miranda seems like more of a snob in the book than in the movie but maybe that's just because we get to hear her thoughts.
that was actually one of my problems with the movie. clegg isn't meant to be attractive, and as great as stamp is at being creepy, it's hard to be repulsed by someone who at the time was considered an adonis of the screen. and no, i think that now matter how he treats her, we as the viewer/reader are meant to be horrified as miranda is. he's essentially destroying her spirit over the course of the story. there was no way it could have turned into a romance.
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yeah, Stamp was good-looking in his prime, but he did have some genuinely creepy-looking eyes (which may have contributed to him getting the part.) So it wasn't a big stretch for him to look like a creepy dude at all. He looks even creepier in a horror flick he did a few years after this one called SPIRITS OF THE DEAD.
You think it wouldn't be "that bad" to be imprisoned against your will and denied access to your loved ones by a selfish sociopath who doesn't understand your concerns and then leaves you to die?
share1. It doesn't matter that a person is good looking. Good looking people can be every bit as creepy as an ugly person. Example: Jeffrey Dahlmer, OJ, Scott Peterson, the Night Stalker - or how about Ted Bundy. All very attractive men - if you sucked their brains out of their good looking bodies and replaced it with somebody SANE.
2. I think it is even more creepy when you have the vision of someone who is supposed to be attractive, but he is a creepy-creeper, making himself look ugly. Did you notice the picture she drew of him on the back of the door? She made him look like Frankenstein.
3. When he finally got what he wanted, sexual acquiescence, he was repulsed by it and turned against the woman. This proves that no matter how "kind" he seemingly behaved, at times, the entire episode was about control, utter control.
4. It is not kind to chloroform, tie up, imprison, and starve someone - no matter how good the perpetrator looks.
You don't think it would have been that bad? Did you still have that opinion when you finished the book?
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Wow...are you nuts? I just saw the film and read the book. Halfway through or not, how could you possibly think it would be "not bad" to be abducted, imprisoned in a windowless room, tied up any time you wanted to step outside or take a bath like once a week, have someone come in to take out your piss and crap in a bucket, to know that that could be the rest of your life. I mean, are you kidding?? It doesn't matter if he started out super polite. Anyone who would hold someone captive like that is clearly disturbed and could do anything to you, no matter what mannerisms they initially display. It doesn't matter if Miranda is a snob or not. You wouldn't be snobby and frustrated if someone was holding you against your will like that? It doesn't matter if he was a sexual sadist or just an obsessed nutter who happened to be cute and polite at first. Having no control over your own life is a horrific concept. How could it be anything but??
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Of course not. I wouldn´t even mind getting my ass murdered as long as the killer´s good looking. Or at least neatly dressed.
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The guy was nuts. He kidnapped her & held her against her will. He lied to her (about being let go after a month) and became violent at times. No way this is desirable.
Stamp played the batty fruitcake role very well. The stare he gave her at times was really creepy.