DID THE 3 FINGERED OLD LADY SCARE YOU?
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MovieChat Forums > Cloak & Dagger (1984) Discussion > DID THE 3 FINGERED OLD LADY SCARE YOU?
the *beep* out of me!!!
share1984 was the summer of scary old ladies this movie and ghostbusters which came out 2 months before this one
shareAs A child YES. And now as an adult, the closet comparison is the elderly couple in David Lynch's Mulholland Dr,
shareI saw this in the theater. She was FREAKY. Esp the scene, where Davy is the car betweem her and George. Then the camera pans up to her...."Something wrong...Davey?"
Spooookey. It was the way the camera shot her. She played a good, 3 fingered spy.
Oh, hell yes. When I was about 8 years old, and she revealed her three-fingered hand, it sent chills down my spine.
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You brought two too many.
She was definitely creepy with the way she went from being sweet, little grandma to revealing three fingers then smothering Davey!
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I still haven't figured out how they got Jeanette Nolan's hand to look like that. The three-fingered hand simply looks too real to be an 80's era prosthetic; the skin has a sheen like it should, it wrinkles like it should, and so on.
As far as I know, Jeanette Nolan still had all ten of her fingers when she acted in Cloak & Dagger. Did Casting find another elderly woman with only three fingers to stand in as Nolan's "hand double"?
But yeah, that part gave me a heady boot to the intestines when I was a kid watching Cloak & Dagger. A smiling, harmless elderly couple are probably among the last kinds of people anyone would suspect of espionage or any other wrongdoing, and it worked on me too, I have to admit. Whoever sent George and Eunice to pick up the Top Secret plans was pretty shrewd.
definitely and she is creeping me out.
shareAs far as I know, Jeanette Nolan still had all ten of her fingers when she acted in Cloak & Dagger. Did Casting find another elderly woman with only three fingers to stand in as Nolan's "hand double"?
Holy Crap. Seriously?
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I'm SO pleased to learn that your ego is so delicate that you have to hunt down random strangers on the internet and treat them like they're stupid, even without warrant or provocation, in the futile hope that doing so will make you look like an incredible genius by comparison. As if that were the least bit possible.
For your information, Mister Super-Genius, that was a compliment to the prosthetic work--if indeed it was a prosthetic--which gave us the three-fingered hand in that ungloved shot. Because the three-fingered hand looked pretty real to me.
Now get off the internet and go back to the playground until you grow the hell up.
We don't actually see Jeanette in the same frame with the three-fingered hand. It was just someone else's hand filmed in closeup separately.
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True, it would probably be easier to use a live hand than to go through the trouble of making up a prosthetic. But I have to wonder if they went through who-knows-how-many auditions to find just the right old woman with a three-fingered hand, or if they went back and tailored the script to suit the hand model that they did find. For all we know, the original draft could have had Rice and his thugs looking for someone with two fingers or six fingers or whatnot.
But yes. Prosthetics are looking better and better all the time, but nothing quite matches the real thing.
When I was a kid, I went to see this movie with my best friend, Scott, and my parents. That scene with the 3 fingers scared the crap out of me so much that, when Scott and went in the backyard "camping" in my dad's army tent, I only lasted out there for about 2 hours before I was freaking out picturing that creepy old lady in my head! We ended up sleeping indoors! LOL
shareYeah, her and her husband we're total weirdos. I knew something was up with them the first time I saw them. And I was right!
Come to think of it, when the lady said that the spy guy "looked like a pervert," i thought she looked like a creep herself. and her hand! yikes!