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Post by utility_singer on Mar 31, 2015 12:36:59 GMT
I was going through the screencaps doing a little story research, and came across this. To me, it looks as if in the immediate aftermath of the puppet show, G is looking up at Maria, her head visible above the proscenium of the stage, with Elsa noticing G looking at M. Anyone else? Deliberate or coincidence? She's definitely giving him the side-eye. Click to get the larger image. The whole sequence is on page 52. Also, Elsa does not rise with G and Max to give the children a standing ovation, the children completely ignore Elsa, and Elsa does not rise from her chair until Maria appears around the side of the stage. link
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Post by utility_singer on Mar 31, 2015 12:46:41 GMT
Another deliciously rich shot----just after Maria replies that she won't make a very good nun, she and G share a look
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Post by lemacd on Mar 31, 2015 14:16:40 GMT
I could buy it, sure, though it's hard to say for sure from behind. It almost looks to me that Elsa is actually startled by the children jumping out at them.
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Post by clarinetjamie on Mar 31, 2015 20:34:40 GMT
I think that's what it looks like to me. I wish we could see the front of their faces. That would be a lot more telling I think. He's definitely looking up at Maria and does appear as if Elsa is a bit annoyed by the his attention being deviated away from her and landing on someone else.
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Post by indigoblue on Mar 31, 2015 23:21:49 GMT
Yes, he's giving her the eye, and Elsa's giving HIM the eye, for a different reason!
Oh, I do love a bit of ultra-micro-analysis!
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Post by augiesannie on Apr 5, 2015 20:18:43 GMT
mmm me too. I also always want to think that at the part where the puppets start waltzing and Georg bursts into laughter, Elsa only laughs after looking at him. It isn't true, as I discover every time I go back to check, but I wish it were.
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Post by utility_singer on Apr 5, 2015 23:58:34 GMT
mmm me too. I also always want to think that at the part where the puppets start waltzing and Georg bursts into laughter, Elsa only laughs after looking at him. It isn't true, as I discover every time I go back to check, but I wish it were. I always think the same thing! But she doesn't start applauding at the end until she looks to him and he does, so maybe we're confusing those moments?
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Post by pandaexpress on Feb 3, 2020 22:55:50 GMT
Another deliciously rich shot----just after Maria replies that she won't make a very good nun, she and G share a look why does he laugh at that comment? is it because he agrees she won't make a good nun?
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Post by warmwoollenmittens on Feb 7, 2020 15:09:44 GMT
Another deliciously rich shot----just after Maria replies that she won't make a very good nun, she and G share a look why does he laugh at that comment? is it because he agrees she won't make a good nun? I always felt this laugh was like an inside joke between M & G. Perhaps (somewhere between the argument and the puppet show) they’ve had one of their little talks and she’s revealed to him all the trouble she’s gotten into at the abbey. Either that or the laugh is an acknowledgement of the fact she’s been a bit of a trouble maker in his house. Either way it’s very endearing, almost like he’s teasing her. Be interesting to know what others think
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Post by reverendcaptain on Feb 20, 2020 20:25:23 GMT
I love thinking about their relationship between the boat scene and the puppet show! Neither of them are acknowledging their feelings yet, but that doesn't mean that they aren't growing closer. I think they talk often, about the children of course, but that they are getting to know one another as well. I always kind of took this laugh to be what all aristocrats do when something is said that is serious - they just laugh it off as a joke. I like your interpretation so much better. I think he is teasing her. Does he know she shouldn't be a nun yet? He might not know that he wants to marry her, but does he think she is not right for the abbey?
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Post by indigoblue on Mar 3, 2020 17:28:46 GMT
Maybe he already has it in his mind that she is so good with the kids that all that would be wasted if she went back to the Abbey. Maybe watching the puppet show made him see how much of a mother-figure she is to them; this may be the first time he has really observed them all close up together.
So when she says "I'd be no good as a nun", it sort of echoes and reinforces what is going on in his mind, and his way of expressing that is to laugh/make light of it - or perhaps it is a sort of deflection of the truth as he doesn't want to acknowledge that he has been thinking about her that much. It is also embarrassing for him because Elsa is so physically close at a time when he can't take his eyes off Maria - perhaps the only reaction he knows is to laugh it off (as Reverend Captain observed).
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