Rocco whispers to Nora
Wonder what Johnny Rocco whispered to Nora?
shareYeah, I actually did. Kind of displayed a double standard that continues to exist today: sex is taboo while violence is completely permissible. I believe the movie showed at least three or four people shot to death, while a couple of sexual comments must be whispered.
I'll bet he was asking her if she had ever imagined sleeping with a man as famous as he. And if she wanted to fulfill that fantasy. Or something similar.
I think the implication is that he wanted some form of perversion so filthy he couldn't say it aloud. Not regular sex, but water sports or some sort of heavy S/M thing. He may also have hinted that he wanted to have her with the old man watching, like a passive spectator.
shareAsking for regular sex is "filthy" enough when a stranger says it to a good girl with "morals", especially morals that were prevalent in the 1940s. We all know what he meant, he wanted to have his way with her.
shareAnother explanation to the dirty talk one is that he was actually trying his brand of "sweet talk", offering to take her with him as his moll, trading up from the lush who he's obviously tired of and disappointed with. Rocco was impressed with Nora, liking the way she stood up to him - bar the spitting, of course, likening her to an old flame of his youth.
He whispered his offer because his current squeeze was in the room.
I think is borne out as well in that just before they all leave he whispers again, as if giving her a final chance and shrugs when she doesn't respond, as if to say, "well, your loss."
If it was the conventional 'dirty talk to unsettle her' explanation then that second whisper makes no sense.
Water sports lol. Reddeer5, you are one funny dude.
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