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Susan
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Date Posted: 03:09:28 08/23/07 Thu
Whaddya mean silly? Us? I got the feeling Bob and Cyril were feeling a bit silly behind the scenes there when they started playing with each other's hair. I don't know which scene was filmed first, but it seemed like they were having a private little practical joke to me--like one was getting even with the other. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Bob actually pulls on Cyril's hair (short as it is, but those curls still look so fun to play with, don't they?) when he's hanging onto Cyril in the water. Hey, maybe *he's* to blame for it thinning so much by the 1960s! lol
If you really watch for these little details (which tends to happen after you've seen the movie, say, 50 or 60 times), I believe it goes on for quite a while, with Bob actually trying to slap Cyril's hand away (in the tent scene), saying something about the flies in there ... My guess would be it was Bob getting even with Cyril in the river scene, which, considering he had to hang onto him like that, was the perfect opportunity. (If only Cyril had published his autobiography, we might know more about what was going on there. He was actually working on one when he died. There's also supposed to be a filmed biography of him that was aired on TV once, but I have no idea how to get my hands on that.)
Elizabeth, don't worry that I already posted it before you mentioned it. If you didn't read my comment about it, then I'm happy to know someone *else* noticed it besides me!
Yes, Emlyn slaps Bob across the face in the scene where he's tying him to the chair ("Playin' for time, are you? You'd like to see us miss that wreck tonight wouldn't you; well we wouldn't miss it for world, see?" was the line Emlyn says just afterwards and then tightens Bob's cravatt). Um, yeah, I do believe I've actually seen JI even *more* times than S3! (Those are my two insomnia movies!)
And, yeah, I didn't think of that before, but Emlyn getting a nice whack across the face is kind of payback for his hitting Bob, but, of course, he doesn't take it that way. He just smirks and carries on whistling ...
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