Sexual tension between young Charlie and old Charlie?
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Trippetta10 — 16 years ago(April 11, 2009 09:36 PM)
I don't think there was anything sexual between them at all. The problem is that, thanks to the time we live in, an adult male can't talk to a young girl for more than a few minutes without someone suspecting he wants to get (or has already gotten) into her pants.
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Scott-101 — 14 years ago(May 01, 2011 04:34 PM)
It's precisely because it's such a taboo territory and that it can't really happen on any textual level, that it's fascinating how Hitchcock plays with the subtext.
In other words, on any textual or realistic level, there's no way this is romantic.
But it's fun to misread it, I suppose, and Hitchcock likes playing around with the symbolism and subtext, so he's inviting us to misread it too and at that point, if Hitch and us are reading it the same way, who's to say that's not really the implication.
It still never makes sense on any realistic level, that the two are really attracted to each other.
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chlo0912 — 13 years ago(May 26, 2012 11:47 AM)
Just because we're saying there's sexual tension doesn't mean Uncle Charlie would be stupid enough to act on it. But there is sexual tension, Hitchcock was a meticulous director and certainly intended it. You can cut through it with a knife in many scenes. Anyone who's attributing it to the closeness of families back then is foolish. I'll bet you anything that audiences back then had the same uncomfortable reaction to Uncle Charlie and his niecethey were simply too close for comfort.
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cold_sky — 11 years ago(June 09, 2014 10:49 PM)
I think it is revolting that anyone would imply sexual tension between the uncle and niece
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thebigmouth — 9 years ago(January 04, 2017 11:04 AM)
I think it is revolting that anyone would imply sexual tension between the uncle and niece.
Then you don't know Hitchcock lol.
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atlantean54 — 18 years ago(December 12, 2007 08:01 PM)
From watching the film again this morning, I couldn't help but feel a slightly "Poe-esque" tension between the two charactersThat kind of tension which was felt strongly between the two twins Roderick and Madeline Usher in Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story,
The Fall of the House of Usher
Remember the conversation between Uncle Charlie and the young Charlie in the kitchen about being "like twins." Having said this, the themes of inscest, murder and insanity fall clearly under the ruberick of Poe's ouevre and it couldn't simply be thought of as coincidental on Hitch's part. After all, in several interviews Hitch claims to have been quite taken with Poe's work and it seems only natural for such themes to filter their way into his craft. -
mrplankton — 18 years ago(December 14, 2007 02:49 PM)
my word! i didnt think of it as sexual tension. i thought she rather worshipped her uncle at first, tho i admit there did seem to be something going on. i merely thought the tension was due to her believing her uncle was a killer! i had better have another viewing and pay closer attention.
cheers.