[ SECRET POST #3965 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3965 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Movie Club! Time to discuss Clue.

[(Anonymous)]

There are so many great moments in this film and I just have to squee about them because I've been waiting over 30 years for this chance!

"There is safety in numbers, my dear." And he's tapping this giant wrench in his hands and then realises how it looks. Kid me though that was one of the funniest things ever and I was also super proud to pick up what I thought was a more mature and subtle joke than kids my age usually would.

Following on from that...I didn't understand that Mr Green was gay for the longest time (probably five years or more) and then when I did, I couldn't understand why that mattered or why he'd be blackmailed for it.

I love Mrs. White and Madeline Khan was flawless, but "flames on the side of my face" was my favourite moment with her.

Wadsworth shouting and getting clinked on the head with the candlestick cracked 8 year old me up to no end and I still giggle a little when I watch the film these days.

I also laughed at the singing telegram getting shot. Sorry. The suddenness of it just struck me as hilarious. Not as much these days but I see why I used to think it was funny.

I love Tim Curry running from room to room explaining what happened and my favourite is him dashing about with the knife raised in his hand.

We saw this in the cinema and only saw one ending. My family all swear a different ending, though. We didn't know at the time there were three possibilities. It was maybe a year later we saw that version and I love all the endings. But my favourite has always been the final one, the one baby me insisted was the "real" ending, the one where each person save Mr Green committed one of the murders.

Re: Movie Club! Time to discuss Clue.

[kaijinscendre]

Other than the dog poop gag, all the visual gags really, really worked for me. You don't really see that type of movie anymore.

Is Mr. Green actually gay? I felt like we were supposed to think so but in the ending where he is the only good guy, he makes a point to say he is going home to his wife. I thought that was supposed to be the gag (they did the same thing for Snakes on a Plane). Then again, that line is only in one of the endings.

I loved when Tim Curry was explaining what happened and turned off the lights and someone was like, "I HATE when he does that."

Re: Movie Club! Time to discuss Clue.

[(Anonymous)]

I think him saying he was going home to his wife was part of why I didn't understand it. I am certain this is the version of the film we saw in cinema and that I always knew he had a wife. But of course my brother swears we saw the Mrs Peacock ending and my father says we saw Miss Scarlett and my mother says we've never seen the film...

Re: Movie Club! Time to discuss Clue.

[(Anonymous)]

Is Mr. Green actually gay? I felt like we were supposed to think so but in the ending where he is the only good guy, he makes a point to say he is going home to his wife.

Anon from below. That line is the reason I'm so ambivalent about that ending. Given the 50s setting, it absolutely made sense for a government man to be vulnerable to blackmail if he was gay, and in that ending it would also make sense as a drastic-and-easy-to-set-up cover (if also more than a little risky for him). I just never liked the fact that he can be innocent in all three endings and gay in two, but in the ending where he's the hero he's suddenly not.

That being said again, he could still be genuinely gay in that ending, though with a real wife to disguise it, and be stressing his 'cover' at the end to avoid being genuinely blackmailed later. In which case his superiors picking that particular cover for the job must have been both terrifying and ironic for him.