Situation: When shopping for someone you just met, what's the best gift idea?
Ghoul Asked for Advice: Morticia, Wednesday and Gramma Ma Addams and Debbie Jilinsky
Movie Used: Addams Family Values (1993)
plot: Gomez and Morticia just had a baby, and decide to hire a nanny, Debbie. When she arrives, she sets her sights on Fester, tricking him into marrying her. Because Wednesday doesn't trust her, Debbie manages to convince Morticia and Gomez to send both Wednesday and Pugsley to camp. While there, Wednesday begins a romance with one of the follow campers. All the while, Debbie is back home plotting ways to kill Fester and steal his fortune.
Quotes: "Father what is it?" - Wednesday in hospital waiting room
"Oh Gomez, it's dark, it's depressing, its desolate" -Morticia to Gomez when he shows her the nursery.
"Very good, but which one will bounce?" -Wednesday to Pugsley,about to throw the baby
"One house, three children, so many windows." -Morticia to Gomez when they hear the kids playing
"Oh I'll be fine. I'm just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. Just I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade." -Morticia to Gomez
"It has to be damp." - Morticia to Debbie when she asks about the men in the family
"All important numbers, police, fire department, morgue." -Morticia to Debbie as she leaves the house with Gomez
"Wednesday's at that very special age when a girl has only one thing on her mind." -Morticia
"These are beautiful things. They're from catalogs."- Debbie
"Oh no, he lives." -Morticia reading to the baby from Cat in the Hat
"Well, you have a black dress." -Gramma Ma Addams to Morticia
"Sometimes people don't listen. I have to use persuasion. And slides." -Debbie
"An axe. That takes me back." -Gramma Ma Addams
"Don't I yearn and ache and shop?" -Debbie
Favourite Scene: Near the end when the character of Debbie is holding everyone captive and starts telling them her back story.
Using the Quotes: "These are beautiful things. They're from catalogs." and "Don't I yearn and ache and shop?"
My Interpretation: Go with the gift cards. Yep. When in doubt, just slap a little bow on a gift card and hand it over.
How well do we really know anyone anymore? This movie takes it to the comic extreme, having Fester completely blind to the fact the women he's known for 48 hours is a serial killer called the "Black Widow". The person he trusts most, Wednesday; tries to warn him something is not on the up and up with Debbie, but he refuses to listen. Instead, Fester allows the kids to be sent away, while he ends up in what becomes; for all tents and purposes, a really abusive relationship. Again, done to the comic extreme, but a serious undertone none the less. Debbie manipulates Fester into isolation from his family, while physically and emotionally hurting him every step of the way. Leaving Fester nothing of his former self. She even has him change his physical appearance to match her own.
This also gives to the idea that what we think we want, might not always be the right thing for us.
Alrighty, that's what I'm talking about. (I feel better)
Come back next Monday to see what kind of a situation I've gotten myself into and whom I turned to for advice.
