Hated her so much throughout. Have you lot come across any men/women like her?
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peculiar-1 — 10 years ago(August 30, 2015 07:36 PM)
Hated her so much throughout. Have you lot come across any men/women like her?
Unfortunately so, she's exactly like this person I came across in later life called my mother. The main difference being that my mother is one of those who never managed to bag the successful man, and has only a tiny portion of Ginger's charisma.
After she had disappeared without any word for 7 years I managed to contact her to let her know my father had passed. Her first concern was wanting me to give her my father's TV set (because she thought it was the most valuable thing of his she could get) and made this ridiculous story up that she had in fact bought it herself.
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cpoet — 10 years ago(September 13, 2015 02:36 PM)
I'm usually predisposed toward taking the woman's side, but the saying goes: "marry for money and you earn every cent of it."
Well, Ginger didn't want to do her job.
She wanted all the money and jewelry and furs and perks and benefits and status and prestige of the position, but she didn't want to put in the work.
She kept saying "We had a deal! We had deal!" and she was right, but her part of that deal was not just "produce a baby and keep your looks up and then you can have carte blanche to do anything you wantdrugs, affairs, supporting another man on her husband's dime, tying her kid to the bed so she could go out, etc.
I'm actually quite surprised to see so much sympathy for her here. Yes, she had a horrible beginning, but golden opportunities fell into her lapincluding divorce from Sam, with a huge payoutand she wasted it all. -
shukti — 10 years ago(December 28, 2015 05:05 PM)
I'm happy to see this thread. I love this movie and something I've always pointed out to my friends who've watched it with me is this: she was a hooker. I get that. She was a hustler. Why didn't she think of Sam as her long-term, last client? Since that's how she rolls, why didn't she think of Sam as her "dream job?"
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angelofvic — 9 years ago(August 01, 2016 06:08 AM)
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Yes that's when the marriage started to fall apart and when Ginger became an alkie and a junkie and a cheater (with Nick). Having Lester beaten to a pulp in front of her eyes was the dumbest thing Sam ever did (along with not re-hiring Don in some capacity).
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dustyhonda2000 — 10 years ago(March 17, 2016 04:39 PM)
My brother's wife and Ginger shared many similarities. Chronic spender, surreptitious thief, girlish histrionics to falsely win sympathies, consistently calling an 'old friend' to go out with or shoulder to cry on. If you were to isolate the DeNiro/Stone scenes, I thought I was watching a documentary of their marriage. All you would have to do is swap the lavish Vegas backdrop & 70's fashions for modern standard clothes amidst a drab suburban backdrop you get the idea. To be fair, she never tied up either of her kids, but she is verbally abusive and belittling/ demeaning to my nephew.
In short, the answer to your question is a firm yes.
Ace should have taken a clue from the fact that the very first act he ever saw Ginger perform was one of betrayal, making a scene, and wrecking organization (scattering entire trays of poker chips). I mean hello. These things are not coincidences.