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Help[Opinions] Reminds me of Parent Trap
in reply to a message by Lily
I think their names were Annie and Hallie. I like it as a nickname, spelled Hallie. Maybe to Helen / Helena?
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I've only seen the early 60s version of "The Parent Trap", by the way, the one in which the twins' names are Sharon and Susan.
That movie has always APPALLED me. It's some sort of light-hearted comedy, in which the parents are portrayed as though they are nice, decent people and good parents, but what they did is APPALLING. They have identical twins, they split up when the twins are toddlers, each takes one twin, they don't tell either twin that she has a twin sister, and neither parent shows the slightest interest in seeing the twin they didn't get custody of until forced to by the twins' switching places. *Who in their right mind would do this?* If my parents did this to me, I'd need years of therapy. But apart from one throwaway line, "I think what you did to us children is terrible", this is not treated as the horrible, highly dysfunctional thing that it is and everything ends happily when the nice, decent, wonderful parents are reunited. Yeesh.
I've only seen the early 60s version of "The Parent Trap", by the way, the one in which the twins' names are Sharon and Susan.
That movie has always APPALLED me. It's some sort of light-hearted comedy, in which the parents are portrayed as though they are nice, decent people and good parents, but what they did is APPALLING. They have identical twins, they split up when the twins are toddlers, each takes one twin, they don't tell either twin that she has a twin sister, and neither parent shows the slightest interest in seeing the twin they didn't get custody of until forced to by the twins' switching places. *Who in their right mind would do this?* If my parents did this to me, I'd need years of therapy. But apart from one throwaway line, "I think what you did to us children is terrible", this is not treated as the horrible, highly dysfunctional thing that it is and everything ends happily when the nice, decent, wonderful parents are reunited. Yeesh.
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I loved this movie growing up and still do, but I have to agree that the whole premise is ridiculous. Those kids would be scarred for LIFE.
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LOL...
I'm showing my age. Their names are Sharon and Susan, damn it.
(I've never forgiven the remake for that ridiculous fencing scene...)
Actually I was kind of ticked off that they used Hallie and Annie... Hayley and Hannah would have been more true to the spirit of the original and would have honoured the actress in the original. It seemed like such a near miss to me!
I'm showing my age. Their names are Sharon and Susan, damn it.
(I've never forgiven the remake for that ridiculous fencing scene...)
Actually I was kind of ticked off that they used Hallie and Annie... Hayley and Hannah would have been more true to the spirit of the original and would have honoured the actress in the original. It seemed like such a near miss to me!
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hahaha no
You got it wrong too :P Their names are Lotte and Luise. I read the book in German as a child, my dad is German and I speak the language. I just googled it and in the English version they changed their names to Lisa and Lottie. It is based on a book by Erich Kastner. Their mom's name was Luiselotte in the German version and they separated the names just as they separated the girls. The Hayley Mills movie is based on the book. It was one of my favorites when I was little.
I like Hallie and Annie better, to be honest. They sound more alike than Hayley and Hannah and none of the names are in the spirit of the book anyway, unless their mom was named Sharonsusan or Hayleyhannah.
You got it wrong too :P Their names are Lotte and Luise. I read the book in German as a child, my dad is German and I speak the language. I just googled it and in the English version they changed their names to Lisa and Lottie. It is based on a book by Erich Kastner. Their mom's name was Luiselotte in the German version and they separated the names just as they separated the girls. The Hayley Mills movie is based on the book. It was one of my favorites when I was little.
I like Hallie and Annie better, to be honest. They sound more alike than Hayley and Hannah and none of the names are in the spirit of the book anyway, unless their mom was named Sharonsusan or Hayleyhannah.
This message was edited 6/14/2012, 1:34 PM
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Is this a nerd-off?? :)
Mirror, mirror, on the wall
who is the nerdiest of them all?
Mirror, mirror, on the wall
who is the nerdiest of them all?
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