Did he?
Did Edward have the affair or no?
shareNo they didn't and anyone saying they did obviously did not understand the line "To your father there are two women in the world, your mother and everybody else." He didn't have an affair watch it again and this time actually bother to watch it...
shareHe DOES IN THE BOOK.
Are we discussing the book?
sharePlease describe the affair in the book. [then we will be discussing the book. :D]
shareThey can't film evey bit of the book but it fills in the blanks and felsh out what they did film.
I'm pretty sure they had an affair. No straight man fixes up a house for a woman he's not banging for free. The details in the story that she tells was just that - a story. She tells him this because Will comes seeking answers not only about his dying father, but about himself as well.
shareNo straight man fixes up a house for a woman he's not banging for free.
I've heard some pretty good reasoning for Edward having an affair, but that's the worst one tmacizgod. Even if that were true in reality (which it's not, plenty of charitable work is done by people who aren't banging those in need of the charity), this is so far outside the realm of reality. A man, straight or otherwise, wouldn't do most of the things that we see Edward do in the film, and he doesn't seem to have done any of those things for sex. He helped Jenny because he was a good man who wanted to help...period. To insinuate that any of the things he did had such an underhanded ulterior motive doesn't match up to Edward's personality/character at all. If you honestly believe that there isn't a straight man out there who would provide that sort of charity without sex, I feel badly for you.
As far as the affair goes, a lot of people reference Jenny's "tiptoeing" line as evidence that she and Edward were having a sexual relationship, but I disagree. I think that was something Burton included to throw the audience off, to make us believe that there had been an affair, and so it would be all the more surprising when we discovered that they hadn't. It doesn't make any sense that Edward and Jenny had been sleeping together, and then he rejects her. That rejection cleared it up for me pretty well, along with her comment that to Edward there were two women in the world, his wife and everybody else. If we're meant to believe that a sexual affair took place, why wouldn't Burton have included an unequivocally clear moment to show that? Like I said, I think we as the audience are meant to believe an affair did in fact occur, so that we'd actually be surprised when we discover it didn't.
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from hearing stuff on the dd I agree that he had an affair in the book but in the movie i'm not sure.
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