Let me tell
you a story about a scene in a very famous movie. I mean it’s a damn classic
and, on a more personal level, the most romantic and tragic love story ever
told on a movie screen. There is a scene that we have all seen yet…it does not
exist…
A couple of
weeks ago, I started re-watching “Skins” on good ol’ Netflix. I’ve seen all the
seasons but thought this was a great occasion to see them all back to back.
SPOILER ALERT In the last episode of season 4, after Freddie has been brutally
killed by the psychopath psychotherapist – one moment of silence for Freds and
his good looks – his best friend Cook gets into the murderer’s house and beats
the shit out of him. Revenge! At least, that is what I remembered…
What
actually happens is that Cook faces up the murderer, gets hit but stands back
up and shouts “I am Cooook!” and then, fade to black…So, I thought that I
remembered clearly that Cook was killing the asshole who took Freddie from us
and that this sort of open ending was not right. Because it means Cook can get
killed too (I know he does not get killed because there is another episode
centred on him a few years later).
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| Cook is about to break some skulls...or not... |
It reminded
me of that scene in…Titanic. And that is where y’all and me loose it!!!
When I
first saw Titanic, in January 1998 (see, this does not feel right! It cannot be
that old!), I
was blown away and could not shed a tear. I was damn impressed that I did not
think about crying. That was only the first time though; I now cry every single
time I see it, no matter what I do to get distracted…It’s not pretty!
I remember
that scene where Rose and her mother are having a conversation about Jack and
Cal, about how they are in a lot of financial troubles and that Rose’s wedding
is the only way to regain some sort of dignity. And I remember Rose being
insolent and her mother slapping her…You do remember too, don’t you?!
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| That lacing-up-your-corset-my-dear-daughter scene |
Well, it
never happened…IT NEVER HAPPENED!!! Watch the DVD, the tape, the streaming
link, the low quality extracts on YouTube. It never happened. There is no
slapping, at all.
The crazy
bit is that I keep asking people around me, and I have been doing it for years,
and they all tell me: “Yeah, it happens! It happens, right? Hold on. No, yes it
happens!” Then, we watch the scene on the DVD and we face the fact that we all
collectively imagined that slap…
Please,
tell me if you remember this or if me (and a lot of other people) are just
losing it!!!
