When Mr Fallows confronts Charles in his car and tells him he knows his transcripts were fake, Charles says he doesnt have any money to be bribed for.
Mr Fallows say something like "Your generation is so mercenary Charles, there are other means of payment than money" or something like that.
What does that mean?
Was Mr Fallows a fag? Did he want sexual favours? Cos thats how I interperated it, or am I just a little twisted? hehe
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Watching it now because I was curious about Brian Krause in a Stephen King movie(love Charmed). Ironically it was right at this scene when I happened to click on the thread. It appears he is reaching down into the car to grope him so I would say it was sexual. Not surprising in a King movie especially following the mother/son incest.
shareWatching it now because I was curious about Brian Krause in a Stephen King movie(love Charmed). Ironically it was right at this scene when I happened to click on the thread. It appears he is reaching down into the car to grope him so I would say it was sexual. Not surprising in a King movie especially following the mother/son incest.
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Yeah, he was a "Cigarette." But he got smoked. Didn't he?
Yeah, he wanted sexual favors from Brian Krause (who wouldn't?), so that means he is "gay." Though, if he were so "happy," it seems to me he would already have been in a successful, committed, monogamous relationship.
But was he a homosexual? Yes. How overt does the man have to be? Do you think "gay" men all wear pink dresses, glitter, Wham! T-shirts, carry Barbra Streisand CD's, say "tho, girlfriend," and give everyone Free Fashion Advice?
"Carol, one word of advice: send Cindy to a special school"
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I'd say that it was - if Mr. Fallows had been more obvious in letting him know he liked him, or whatever, he (as well as others) would have caught on much sooner. Certainly the actor Glenn Shadix was acting him as though he were any number of shady character villains of films at that time. There was a huge underground of edgy independent films around that time, and with all their villains, it was often very unclear what exactly they wanted from their chosen 'prey' until they just came right out and either said it, or, to be somewhat crass, "put their finger on it."
"Carol, one word of advice: send Cindy to a special school"
I first I thought that is about that, that Mr. Fallows is angry about being humiliated. But then later on, I did kind of feel that he was trying to blackmail Charles, and that what he wanted was sex. Most Stepehen King movies and novels, have at least one character that is gay, or sexually ambiguous. This movie is no execption.
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It's the Stephen King kind of thing to have one of the antagonist characters at least have some kind of dark motive or crude intention.
This isn't just exploitation to make a sick and disgusting characters for the sake of making them and drawing in people either who will complain or secretly love it. It's simply the age old tradition of making and breaking even when the death count comes.
For example, the beginning of the movie shows that a little girl, probably an innocent undeserving little thing, had died. Dead cats everywhere...then later on we have the cop die and most likely ( I can't remember precisely) the girl's father dies too...
Then it's just a movie about GOOD people always dying.
Charles could have killed Mr. Fallows regardless, sure, before any kind of attitude was shown from the teacher. But that just would have been another pointless and underserving death.
But by throwing in the fact that the teacher has an unhealthy obsession with a teenage high school boy, as well as full intent of blackmailing the boy into sexual favours, our wonderful Mr. King gives us at least ONE entertaining death scene where someone died because they DID deserve it. It doesn't justify the other deaths, of course, but it leaves us with the fact that no one was safe, there weren't only innocent virginal or heroic victims.
It also served as a plot point to show how truly two-sided Charles' personality could be, and that no matter how much he had charmed the audience already as well as the girl in the movie, that he was still ultimately a vicious, maniacal monster with the intent and ability to kill.
So it serves as a plot point, at least ONE death to even out the fact so many good people were killed, and a device to make the audience just that little less guilty while they were probably rooting for the girl to be killed :P