What’s Aged the Best?
Ford’s casting; camera movement; planted payoffs; symbolism; star pairing; Vermont; bathroom danger; Cooper; still-photo anecdote.
In the discussion (10)
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- Casting Harrison Ford as a man who tries to kill his wife after The Fugitive is praised as inspired against-type casting.
- The camera’s subtle following movement is praised for creating the sense of a ghost watching Claire.
- The paralytic agent, key, clipping, missing cell service, and hitched boat are praised as planted details that pay off in the climax.
- The Adamant shop name, pendant design, and Celtic-knot key are described as obvious but effective symbols.
- Pairing major stars in a polished film, using Vermont as a scary setting, and showing an attractive cellist are praised.
- Dangerous bathroom scenes and a mysteriously full bathtub are praised as effective fears.
- Dogs sensing evil is praised, with Cooper cited as intuitive.
- A participant reports that high-school friend Scott Carino appears as Claire’s late husband in two photographs; friend Jeff Gallo treated the appearance as a highlight of 2000.
- A participant recounts returning from vacation to find a bathtub filled by a clog and a dripping fixture.
- A participant recalls being told that the person rendered as “Vanessa Marcel” was very attractive during the friend’s Melrose Place work; the identity rendering remains transcript-uncertain.