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QUIT CALLING HIM ANGEL!!

posted 12 years ago by rahrah14
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I worship Barbara Stanwyck and I love this movie...and now my rant.

The thing that drives me absolutely batty is the way the daughter continually calls her father "Angel." Nobody calls their father that. I could be wrong, it may have been an acceptable term of endearment at one time, but I have never heard it anywhere else. They are very much alike so I guess it makes some weird sense, but it's really annoying and borderline creepy.

End of rant. As you were. :)

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[–] slappaccino 11 years ago

LOL!

I'm watching the movie right now and somewhere about twenty minutes into the movie, I blurted out "ANGEL? WHY ARE YOU CALLING YOUR FATHER ANGEL?!"

It may have been acceptable in the 1920's, but now it's just plain creepy.

[–] ThereWillBeBeer 11 years ago

Apparently it wasn't creepy in 1912, especially among the wealthy. One of those terms that was common then but kind of obsolete now. Similar to the 1997 Titanic when Cal says to Rose, 'I know you've been melancholy.'

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[–] hisgrandmogulhighness 11 years ago

I don't think anything is wrong in her calling him that . . . sort of cute . . .

[–] FranLovesBetteD 11 years ago

I, too, found that to be extremely annoying, especially because neither Clifton Webb nor his character were particularly an "angel" type. He was truly obnoxious 90% of the time in this movie (well, sorry, in most of his movies), only nice in the last part.

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[–] TheGuyWithTheFeet 11 years ago

It's kind of familiar to me and kind of disrespectful. She should be calling him "father" or something.

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[–] TheGuyWithTheFeet 11 years ago

Well, it felt a little incestuous to me.

As far as true to the period, they might have left out her calling him Angel in favor of period costumes. The costumes are decidedly 50s.