Hick and Jacobean Drama – Whitnney Dihmes
The movie I picked for this assignment was Hick and the scene I picked was nearly to the end of the movie where Luli (Chloe Moretz) shoots Eddie (Eddie Redmayne). This scene shows Eddie killing Glenda (Blake Lively), and he is going crazy because he cannot believe what he just did, Luli, which was close to Glenda killed Eddie out of spite.
Some background information about the movie: Luli left her home in Nevada to go to Las Vegas to become an actress. She went on a trip with a few bucks and asked for rides in order for her to get to Las Vegas, along the way, she met Glenda, a cocaine addict, which became Luli’s close friend and she sort of admired her because of how independent she was.
Luli met Eddie, which had something with Glenda, but Luli liked Eddie, and Eddie made her believe he liked her, and he only did that to get closer to Glenda. Eddie fooled and lied to Luli until she finally opened her eyes that he was using her to get back with Glenda.
In this scene we can see a fraction of Eddie’s madness about Glenda which ends up in her murder. Despite the fact he lied to Luli and made her believe that he felt something about her, he also killed Glenda, which was friend, all this situations led her to kill Eddie.
This scene from this movie, even though is short, relates to Jacobean drama because of the lying and the violence involved. We could compare this movie to The Duchess of Malfi specially in the madness that Ferdinand had towards his sister (the Duchess) which compelled him to kill the Duchess, Antonio and their kids.
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Wow, that is definitely a lot of violence! It’s crazy how people can go to such measures, such as killing, just to get back at someone. That comes to show the importance of madness and betrayal in people’s lives, and what it can eventually lead to. Great choice!