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Pictures on Graham's wall

posted 14 years ago by maldar89
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Does anyone know who the pictures of the people on Graham's wall are? Are they poets/literary figures? One of them looked kind of looked like Sylvia Plath but I'm not entirely sure.

[–] franzkabuki 14 years ago

Another similar question - what´s with Gallaghers map fetish? He had both the world map as well as a US map on the wall; hardly usual for a lawyer to have such a strongly defined interest in geography.

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] ECETeacher 12 years ago

All the times I've watched this movie, I've never picked up on maps , but I would think it would refer to the difference between John and Graham. John likes the idea of travel, Graham is out on the road DOING it. Ironic.

[–] sacred_cow 14 years ago

I'm pretty certain he has a picture of Edith Sitwell on his wall.

[–] TheUbrmensch 11 years ago

If you watch the director's commentary Soderbergh says they were just random pictures out of magazines and other assorted things, and that because of his inexperience and the inexperience of others, they were sued by multiple people because of these pictures.

Also a sidenote, the map in Graham's apartment was actually Spader's map, and those routes highlighted in marker were actual road trips that Spader had taken.

[–] polet_bally 10 years ago

I think one of them is Anthony Burgess.

[–] chewtoy45 8 years ago

The one closest to the kitchen at Spader's eye level is Lillian Gish.

I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.