Discuss The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
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Official hamster thread
posted by wreckage3001 🎃🏠☕🍪STAFFMOD on February 21, 2017 at 9:20 AM
Some basic knowledge if you are new to movie tricks is on rynnjacobs.blogspot.com Here's some more trivia, so I don't have to repeat all the time.
Five or six hamsters were used for different scenes in the movie
Hallet's victim was already dead
It took more than one dead hamster to get the throw into fireplace scene right...
The hamsters later were adopted by a nice lady from costume dept.
In the novel Rynn's pet is a white rat.
Reply by Dave
on February 26, 2017 at 1:54 PM
Rynn's line of "You're a rat." was improvised.
Reply by wreckage3001 🎃🏠☕🍪
on February 27, 2017 at 1:13 PM
A nice little hint at the novel. Could it be Mario can't tell a hamster from a rat? Or just a little teasing? I think it's a given that a rat is considered to be (by us, the audience and the two kids) inferior, worse, negative to hamster and basically derogatory for naming someone's pet. And isn't Rynn quick with her payback, calling her very new and very helpful friend rat in return? Is it he's not in her circle of trust, not yet?
Reply by Dave
on February 28, 2017 at 7:49 AM
I was close, ha ha. I've heard some say Gordon represented Rynn's youth, as a child may have such a pet. When Frank kills it (brutally, I may ad) that could have been foreshadowing of his plan on taking something else from Rynn. You'll notice how playful she was with presenting Gordon to Mario and how coldly she reacted when Hallett wanted to see it. As in, some kind of feral response that animals have towards good and bad people.
Reply by wreckage3001 🎃🏠☕🍪
on February 28, 2017 at 9:36 AM
The young lady probably lost her youth, childhood, whatever, the day she put sth in tea that 'calmed down' evil mum... And the more you think about and go down the dark stairs to the abyss of child abuse, including chipped teeth and all kind of violence, you wonder if that kid ever had a childhood at all...
Reply by Dave
on February 28, 2017 at 11:29 AM
I just took a chipped tooth as something that happened accidentally. A child wouldn't mind, but the growing Rynn began to see it more self consciously. Your stairs comment got me thinking of another odd theory that the cellar would represent her dark past, the main floor would be her troubled present and the 2nd floor as a hopeful future.
In any event, the house in one of the posters looks nothing like the one that was shown.
Reply by waldenpond88
on March 5, 2017 at 12:55 PM
I always thought the chipped tooth was an accident, never thought of domestic abuse. So it was her mother?
Reply by wreckage3001 🎃🏠☕🍪
on March 5, 2017 at 3:34 PM
Yes, sure. Very bad mum. I wonder if Lester Jacobs had already tried to get rid of her before, back in Europe. Seems he prepared everything very good for the day of her return. A little too good if you ask me...
Reply by waldenpond88
on March 7, 2017 at 7:54 AM
I'll have to reread the novel. That idea never ocurred to me. Good point!