I was watching this movie again last night, with Michael Douglas and Glenn Close. A few things struck me:
I remembered that the first time I saw this movie I thought Dan and Beth’s child was a boy until Dan called her “Ellen.” :eek:
Alex always seemed to be wearing either all white or all black. Was there any significance to that?
Dan never came up with a good reason why he cheated that weekend, other than “The opportunity presented itself.” Yeah, that’s good reason. :rolleyes:
I think Dan started to get worried about Alex when he left the first night and went home. She then called him and persuaded him to come back over with the dog for a run in the park, saying he could work in the apartment and she would cook him dinner. I noticed she cooked him spaghetti, while Beth had left him a plate of leftover spaghetti in the fridge. He eventually gave it to the dog.
I also find it interesting that Alex could be such a successful professional (wasn’t she a book editor or something?) and be so seriously disturbed. She latched on to a married man she just met and expected him to leave his life for her. No problem with reality there.
I remember when this movie first came out it scared the bejesus out of a lot of men.
Good movie, with a message that has held up over time.
I saw it with my mom.
Well, she was sitting several rows away with a friend of hers. I just get a kick out of saying that. The movie itself was pretty predictable but that alternate ending was even worse, making no sense at all.
That movie was right out of my own life’s experiences, and while the details were wrong, the main characters’ personalities and character traits were an absolute dead on match for me and the woman involved in my case.
Yep, back then that was all the reason many of us needed.
That’s the thing that was so astonishing with the woman in my case. One minute she would be an independent professional in control of her entire world and the next she would be a pathetic, clinging child. Sometimes those moments would merge seamlessly leaving you wondering what the hell just happened.
The scene in the subway (railroad?) station where Alex tells Dan about her pregnancy was practlically word for word what happened to me.
Man, even now, all these years later, just thinking about that movie disturbs me greatly.
A friend of mine was fond of saying that when women cheat, it’s because there is a problem in their main relationship. When men cheat, it’s because they can.
I know, gender stereotyping and all that. But all too often true.
The original ending of Fatal Attractionhad Alex (Glenn Close) committing suicide to the strains of “Madame Butterfly” and making it look like Michael Douglas’ character murdered her. Douglas is arrested and suspense revolves around whether his wife (Anne Archer) will clear him by verifying his alibi or let him hang because she’s still mad about his affair.