Re: the scene where Hilary is telling the nurse why she can't have a baby...are we to assume that it's Leroy's? Because we saw them go into her bedroom together. Just curious what anyone else thought.
It was my first time seeing this movie (I'm only 24) and that's what I thought. Definitely his.
shareit was pretty realistic, too. not too many rich, white girls drop babies before they get out of school or before they get married.
shareHey....can anyone tell me where that scene is in the movie? I was watching it on youtube and i guess i missed it....someone on here said it is a very powerful monologue and i would love to see it for myself because i love great movies! what scene is directly before it so i know its coming? thanks guys!!
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I wish that I could tell you what scene exactly came before it, but I cannot really remember. I can tell you, however, that is somewhere in the final twenty minutes of the film. Whoever said told you that it is a very powerful monologue is absolutely right; that single scene, where Hilary is explaining why she is having an abortion but is obviously trying to justify it to herself, is probably the film's best scene.
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I agree! Hilary is seen as just this stuck-up, spoiled rich girl out to defy her parents any way she can - which is essentially why she chooses Leroy. This scene allows the audience to understand her character more. I also have to say if you see this one and then see the remake, this one is a lot better!
shareIt's 1 hour 45 min in to the movie.
shareThe scene right before it is Ralph and Doris in the subway right after he did his stand up routine fr the first time.
shareI don't think it had anything to do with it being Leroy's child. Her monologue talks about all the amazing places she's already danced and if she were to have a baby a few things would happen:
1. She wouldn't graduate on time (can't really dance en pointe or a pax de deux when she reaches a certain stage of pregnancy). I couldn't remember (haven't danced forever and never while pregnant) so I fount this excerpt from an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
"Dancers can continue to work into their second trimester, depending on the individual and also on the kinds of roles they play. For example, technically intensive roles with leaps and jumps are ruled out."
2. It would mess up her training/dance schedule (see 1)
3. It could alter her body shape - ie when your pelvis spreads during birth. When you're doing your foot positions, especially a closed fifth, you're turning out from your hips and flattening your pelvis but the feet will still learn their new placement at a fast clip. The body's muscle memory will take over fairly quickly with regular training but that would also delay the return to dancing professionally. Not to mention if she *gasp* grew a bigger chest - her body was the "perfect shape" at that time in the movie.
4. Something could just go terribly wrong during delivery and prevent her dancing ever again as well.
Sorry - went long, but for non-dancers it may help explain why the pregnancy would have probably ended her career before it really took off.
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Wait she was talking to the Nurse? I always thought she was talking to her baby while she was in the waiting room and the Nurse was just passively listening and when it was her turn the Nurse asks her about cash or charge. (Sorry for the crazy run-on sentence).
She's talking out loud. I guess the viewer can decide if she's talking to herself to try and justify what she's doing to herself (as one of the posters said and is very probable) or if she's trying to make the nurse think she's not a horrible person.
Even now it's hard, back then it was even worse. Although Roe v. Wade had passed several years before, there was still a lot of difficulty for a mother choosing to end her pregnancy.
Either way, she's suffering and torn...and I think if she wasn't a dancer she'd have kept the baby, Leroy's or not. It's a very poignant point in the movie and I almost wish it had happened earlier so we'd know more about the back story and/or what happens afterward in more detail. My view is just from that of a dancer, but I think she did it for her career...which, again, I guess is left to the viewer to decide.
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Duh. Not very bright, are you OP?
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