Posted by Susan47 on November 18, 2004, at 2:51:05
In reply to Re: Is that the Movie » Susan47, posted by AdaGrace on November 17, 2004, at 17:03:48
you can't put your job in jeopardy because you can't tear yourself away from Babble it'll be there when you get home.
Nicholson was not mean to Keaton, he was true to himself. If you remember, he had a lot of crap to work out before he could be emotionally ready for the relationship. He felt that, he knew he'd had a fairly meaningless emotional life. I thoughe he played the scenes very empathically to his character and that came through. And Keaton loved every minute of her torture, because it made her creativity shine and move through her; she used her pain and grew from it too. When she'd first got int the relationship she was always cringing and feeling like she'd said something too intimate or intimidating because she felt so strongly about wanting to commit to this relationship, knowing that he had a history of being the bad guy. If Nicholson's character had stayed stagnant but accepted the relationship, it would've never worked well for her because she would never have been sure of his commitment. But after he went through his self-examination (which took a nice long, juicy six months during which time Keaton developed even more self-confidence and autonomy) he was ready for the real thing for the first time in *his* life, so now we have the end of the story, and they lived happily every after.
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