I don't get it
The protagonist wants to marry into a wealthy family. So he gets the daughter pregnant, she's overjoyed to marry him ---- and then he kills her. Huh?
shareThe protagonist feared that the strict father would disinherit his daughter if she "had" to get married. He didn't think he would become the favored son-in-law as planned if he went through with the quickie wedding.
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really
it's good
Movie is boring trivia; I liked remake better and I usually don't like remakes.
Nothing exists more beautifully than nothing.
yes, the book was great. read it a long time ago and if i remember correctly there was another sister he almost married and had to kill. boy he was a busy guy.
"THIS IS NO DREAM....THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING!!!!" (Rosemary Woodhouse)
The father would not have approved, that all he talked about before killing her. Do people even watch the movie before asking stupid questions?
shareThe book was great and so were other Ira Levin books (The Boys from Brazil) comes to mind. I read this book many years ago and yes he kills the 2nd sister and is working on the 3rd homely, skeptical sister when the father kills him. Well its an accident. Dad confront him inside the smelt while they are touring and Bud pees himself and falls in a vat of, well, smelt.
shareSmelting is the process, not the product. There's no "smelt" that comes out of the process. There ARE smelt, as in a type of fish, but they wouldn't have vats of them used in processing copper ore. The smelter is the device ("ore melter") that they're standing over/next to. Bud then slips and falls into a vat of molten copper. I'll bet that when that happened, the smelter smelt different than normal... (-;
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