The only problem I have with the lesbian context of the movie.......... - Fried Green Tomatoes (1992) Discussion

[–] DarkPurpleAngel 10 years ago

Jessica Tandy wasnt Idgie or Ruth.. She was a whole separate character, married into the family later, Ninny Threadgoode.

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[–] fatalframe80 10 years ago

I can see where they would be confused. My mom thought for years that Ninny was Idgie just because of the scene at the end where Evelyn and Ninny see the jar of honey at the grave and Ninny smiles and says "Maybe we'll see her today" and Evelyn replies that maybe they will and smiles knowingly back. It certainly seems to imply that Ninny is Idgie even though she is not.

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[–] tacarav112 10 years ago

No, she had a ring on and she even said she had a son that died when he was thirty. Also she was married. Her character talks about how her and her husband lived in the house (that was condemned) for 40 years I Believe she said.

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[–] Ithilfaen 9 years ago

No, she had a ring on and she even said she had a son that died when he was thirty

In the book, Ninny is not Idgie but for the sake of argument, Ninny did say she was over 40 when she had her child and Idgie wasn't in her 40ies when Ruth died so she could have had a child of her own later.

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[–] FetzerZinfandel 10 years ago

Well, you don't have to, since Ninny wasn't a lesbian.

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[–] Ithilfaen 9 years ago

Well, you don't have to, since Ninny wasn't a lesbian.

Neither were Idgie and Ruth for all we know. Love and attraction are not just binary.

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[–] FetzerZinfandel 9 years ago

Nor did I say they were.

That said, the book makes it pretty clear that their relationship was romantic and physical.

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[–] Dan_Garten 9 years ago

Interesting.

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[–] elvisforever-633-689384 10 years ago

This had nothing to do with lesbians period. You have to put sex in everything

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[–] Master_Alucard 10 years ago

Idgie and Ruth(after her marriage) were in a lesbian relationship in the book, so yes it does have to do with lesbianism. Read the trivia for the movie.

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[–] Ithilfaen 9 years ago

This had nothing to do with lesbians period. You have to put
sex in everything

It did have a lot to do with love, and that's what we're talking about here. *You* are the one putting sex into it.

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[–] elvisforever-633-689384 9 years ago

When you use the word lesbian to describe a relationship that would include sex. Two women and two men can love each other and there is no sex involved. I love this movie and hate to see it brought down to a sexual relationship instead of two women who simply love each other as friends

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[–] FetzerZinfandel 9 years ago

I'd suggest you not read the book then. 😃

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[–] ncoflin 10 years ago

The book and movie differ a good deal. Yes in the book Ruth and Idgie were definitely in a romantic lesbian relationship. It's not "putting sex into everything" by acknowledging they had a romantic relationship. The movie made this relationship more ambiguous. I do also feel the movie subtlety implied Idgie and Ninny were one in the same person. However in the book they are distinctly two separate people. Just because Ninny later settled down with a man and had a kid doesnt mean she couldn't have still had a lesbian relationship though. Perhaps she was bisexual or perhaps she just did what was expected of her during that time period and geographical location with marrying a man then having a kid. Although this speculation is moot because in the book they are definitely not the same person.

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[–] Ithilfaen 9 years ago

Is the thought of an 81 year old Jessica Tandy being into girls.

She would be into women, not girls.
Also, lesbians do grow old. They don't magically disappear once they get older than the fake ones you see in porn movies.

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