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Date Posted: 13:55:35 08/26/05 Fri
C.0. Timelessness
There is little to cement the film to any particular time in history. Not the automobiles, unlike "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." Not the fashions, unlike "The House That Dripped Blood." Not the interior design of the sets, unlike "The Thin Man" series of films. And especially not the language, unlike "The Song of the Thin Man."
C.1. Lady Sylvia (Donohoe) doesn't tell Kevin (Pitt) to put his rucksack in the boot or the trunk of her automobile, she says: "Put your rucksack in the back." Actually, for a film made in the U.K., it is remarkablely free of British colloquialisms.
C.2. That the film is one of the few times that Christ (Peters) is portrayed as being clean shaven.
C.3. That anorak = nerd in British slang. And who is wearing an anorak in the film. Who else, but Kevin, the scout or boy scout.
D.0.Obliviousness
The characters seem oblivious to what is going on around them. For some it is understandable. Angus (Capaldi) who just moved there. Lord James (Grant) who is away most of the time. And perhaps even for the Trent sisters (Davis and Oxenberg.) But you'd think that Erny (Brooke) would realize what is going on. While not everybody would have disappeared in that area. And not everybody who would have disappeared, would have received a missing persons' report.But enough missing persons' reports must have been filed for him to have some inkling that something strange is going on, but he seems as oblivious to what is going on as the rest of the characters.
Another oblivious character is Kevin. Even when he is in the bath, he seems to be oblivious to the fact that Lady Sylvia means to do him harm. Only when she puts the "bite" on him, does he realize what is happening.
D.1. Note that in most films, when you have an object in the foreground and a person in the background, you pick up the object before the person does. Not in this film. Only when Kevin sees Lady Sylvia's car, do you see her car.
D.2. That the snakes 'n' ladders board in the film, had to be especially constructed for the film. Because its snakes 'n' ladders configuration matches no other board. Not the American board, the British board, nor the Indian board.
D.3. It is the women who have the hard heads in the film. Lord James and Angus wear hard hats, when they go potholing at Stone Rig Cavern, but not the Trent sisters.
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