Watching PJs The Frighteners atm.
What is it with Peter and Mommys? Braindead has a nasty mammy with an opressed kid, this does, and Mommy sure gets a bum deal in Heavenly Creatures.
Haven’t seen Meet The Feebles, is this a recurring theme?
Just remembered that PJ mentioned his parents passing away in the past few years, and speaking fondly of his mother, so the question may appear in “Bad Taste”, but can somone spoil me as to whether Moms get a raw deal in the other movies I haven’t mentioned?
As far as I remember there is not a single female character in Bad Taste, so that one will probably not help.
Well, Heavenly Creatures was a true story and extremely faithful to known facts, so I’m not sure that would qualify as evidence of a problem with mothers.
Here’s a good site with a lot of information about the real-life murder, and comparisons to the movie. If anything, the movie was a bit tame when showing the actual murder.
No mothers to speak of in Forgotten Silver or the LOTR movies, fwiw.
Well, his decision to make a movie out of that particular material at all might be evidence.
Well, Galadriel is Elrond’s mother-in-law. Does that count?
Heheh, and she ain’t exactly the sweetest of mommies…
Aragorn’s mum is dead sniff. So’s Frodo’s.
Meet the Feebles while populated with a number of females of questionable morality and/or sanity, none of them are mothers and they’re all more than balanced out by the male characters.
I don’t remember any mommy issues in The Frighteners. What happened there?
There are a few suggestions of mommies in the LORD OF THE RINGS movies: the Rohan mother who sends her children off to safety and to warn the others, Rosie the hobbit, and of course Arwen’s vision of having a child (although she herself is not present in the vision.)
There are also two major plots involving daddies: Elrond and Arwen (a powerful but caring father who is over-protective); and Denethor with Faramir and Boromoir (a powerful father who shows favoritism and tries to stir up jealousies). And Theoden has a sort of role as father-figure to Eowyn, and grieves the loss of his son.
However, I think that parenthood is too broad an issue to say that any director uses it as a recurring theme. A possible exception is Hitchcock, who has LOTS of mothers in his movies – almost every movie has or mentions a mother, usually over-protective and sometimes (like in PSYCHO) dangerously so.
Bad Taste may not have any female characters, but as in Braindead (aka Dead Alive) a major character does hack through the antagonist, emerging bloodied and shrieking, in a hideous parody of birth. I remarked on it at the time, and I definitely think **Ideki’s ** on to something.
I wasn’t really thinking of the LOTR movies, as they that is an adaptation.
The bit in the Frighters involved a haughty and controlling mother living in a big house.
We later find out she is a goodie, but still.
No bad momies in Meet the Feebles but if you do watch the film and enjoy it, as I did, you will spend eternity in Hell.
The extended edition of The Fellowship of the Ring has a nice scene of Aragorn cleaning off his mother’s grave in Rivendell before he leaves with the rest of the Fellowship. It’s shot beautifully–Aragorn is seen caressing the cheek of a statue on the grave, presumably a likeness of his mother. Elrond comes and tries to encourage him to take up the mantle of his birthright, saying that his mother brought him to Rivendell to keep him safe.
This is a silly thread.