Celebrity Worship Syndrome
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Purple Rose of Cairo
CihanVercan — 13 years ago(January 05, 2013 08:27 PM)
I don't have enough time to look over all the topics and all the threads in this forum for the movie: "The Purple Rose of Cairo" in hopes that anybody else noticed the psychological problem which Mia Farrow had throughout the movie. So it's better to write it down, what I'm looking for, from all of you movie-fans:
Celebrity Worship Syndrome is a pyschological problem, which in the history of 20th century most female fans of (1) Elvis Presly (2) James Dean (3) you name it, used to have the same problem, and hence Woody Allen has inspired from one of those Dreamy Love Story dreams and wrote this movie for those who are in love(really in love!) with stars.
But the difference in The Purple Rose of Cairo is that, the female fan of a star actor, had actually have a chance to meet with him in person. Right? Just like in the movie "Notting Hill(1999-Hugh Grant & Julia Roberts).
So if anybody else is aware of this concept, write down one more, which is about Celebrity Worship Syndrome.
I said, Notting Hill(1999), what's yours?
Cheers.
Sean.
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 12 years ago(February 20, 2014 08:32 PM)
It's been about 15 years since I've seen
Pleasantville
, but wasn't that sort of along the same lines?
As for Celebrity Worship Syndrome, I'm proud to have it.
(My signature line should explain it all.)
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J-Curl-BiggernBlacker — 3 months ago(December 09, 2025 12:08 PM)
Yeah the film nearly perfectly captures a parasocial relationship and especially a dependency tree with an ultimately emotionally unavailable woman.
Like that’s exactly what’s gonna happen in real life, she’s gonna throw over the guy that loves her for the guy that doesn’t who is going to dog her out like the ending of the movie. And let’s not even get started on the husband who beats her. It’s all very sad, but in real life like that Cececilia would have needed to get help to gain the strength and self esteem to stand up for herself and seek out healthy relationships, cause she lives in limerence fantasy land
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