Another plot point is that she may not have been a prostitute for very long. The bar owner makes a point to Little Bill about how he has a contract with her to “come out west and whore for him”, which means he’s out a lot of money. That’s why Little Bill decides not to hang or even whip the bad guys - because he cares more about making the bar owner financially whole than about punishing the bad guys.
So she may have been a woman who fell on hard times out east, and came west as a whore in hopes of re-establishing herself.
Actually, there may be a rather tenuous tie between vampire lore and Sesame Street. Everyone knows Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel is all about vampire lore, but less well known is that his father, Tom Whedon, was also a television writer who happened to write for the Children’s Television Workshop, which of course creates shows like Sesame Street and Electric Company.
I was rewatching Total Recall recently, and for the first time realized in the scene where Benny was fondling the three breasts of the mutant in Last Resort, he said “Mmm. I wish I had three hands!”
I mean, Trelawney being farsighted might not have been deliberate, because the way it was indicated relied on things that Rowling might not have known. Her glasses are described as magnifying her face. But ordinary glasses, worn by nearsighted people, don’t magnify what’s behind them. Lenses of that sort are used to correct farsightedness, not nearsightedness.
By the same token, Piggy from Lord of the Flies was also farsighted.
Saw one this week, while re-watching The Expanse. There’s a scene in which one character is drinking a bottle of booze while mourning a loss. But it’s in zero gee. At one point, even though the bottle is “upright” relative to the image on the TV, the remaining booze is clearly floating in a mass above the bottom of the bottle. There have been other examples in the show of liquids doing weird things in low- and no-gee areas, but this one was kind of subtle, but also obvious as soon as you see it.
Ian McKellen has a scene in Extras where he explains that acting is pretending and that he had to tell Peter Jackson that he was not really a wizard and that there is a script with the words and blocking to know where to stand etc. I had thought that it was just a comedy bit - Sir Ian being funny. After all, Ricky Gervais calls him Sir Ian to which McKellen protest there are no titles in the workplace then keeps referring to himself as Sir Ian.
But after the millionth time I realized, it’s not just a bit of comedy. It is a scathing commentary on method acting. You can see the scene here.
Brian Cox just went off on Jeremy Strong in the same way.
And there’s this classic putdown.
Dustin Hoffman has long been known as one of method acting’s most earnest exponents. A showbiz story involves his collaboration with Laurence Olivier on the 1976 film Marathon Man. Upon being asked by his co-star how a previous scene had gone, one in which Hoffmann’s character had supposedly stayed up for three days, Hoffmann admitted that he too had not slept for 72 hours to achieve emotional verisimilitude. “My dear boy,” replied Olivier smoothly, “why don’t you just try acting?”
The Brits especially seem to hate the Method. And that works fine for them.
