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A small nitpick

posted 17 years ago by BoogerBarbieDoll12
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In the scene with the mom dancing and sticking her gum on the wall, I coudn't imagine Annabelle acting that way. Annabelle seemed more mature than that. Anyone agree?

[–] betnysmom 17 years ago

Yes. The whole time she was dancing around, I was trying to picture Annabelle dancing that way, and failing.

[–] themightymartin 17 years ago

It's probably how she would act if her mother would let her get away with it. It's like she's saying "I can do whatever I want now".

"Groovy"

[–] funkiste 17 years ago

Yeah, I think she feels liberated. She hates being a teenager and now she is a (very beautiful) grown up woman - she is just celebrating. This is, of course, before she realises how difficult it is being a grown up. At this point she thinks it's going to be great.

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[–] jodi437 14 years ago

She wasn't that mature! Remember she like threw the icecram at the wall when her and her friend Virginia were eating at that cafe.

I can easily see Annabelle dancing and doing that to her gum.

[–] kaskait 13 years ago

"I feel GREAT, how does SHE feel?"

It was obvious that Annabelle just couldn't wait to be grown up. The film shows her worrying over her own slow development. And there is just a bit of envy against her mom.

So when the places are switched, Annabelle is excited about being beautiful and curvy and mature. But her mind isn't mature yet, so she doesn't know how to handle herself. Its a good thing she didn't get her mom in trouble while she was using her face to romance Boris.

To put it bluntly, there were a lot of Freudian things going on in this film and in the book it was based upon. Amazingly, it was all intentional too. Which is why this version trumps the remake.

[–] jpowell180 12 years ago

And how about that generic, canned fake music that she was listening to on her "transistor radio"?
It's like the creators of the film had no idea what kids really listened to in 1976 (or 1966 for that matter, as Disney seemed to put the same type of canned music in their films in the 60's and 70's).