The Bad Seed - Revision history

DavidB4-bot: /* Awards and Nominations */Category - revert last batch, pending template category correction

2017-03-07T00:03:35Z

Awards and Nominations: Category - revert last batch, pending template category correction

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2017-03-06T23:58:54Z

Awards and Nominations: Category

DavidB4-bot: /* The Nature-Nurture Controversy */Spelling/Grammar Check, typos fixed: Indeed → Indeed,

2016-09-09T15:38:27Z

The Nature-Nurture Controversy: Spelling/Grammar Check, typos fixed: Indeed → Indeed,

TerryH at 02:03, June 24, 2012

2012-06-24T02:03:54Z

TerryH: /* Christine's History */

2012-06-24T02:01:34Z

Christine's History

TerryH: /* Retribution */

2011-02-23T03:51:41Z

Retribution

Jpatt: Reverted edits by Cruxis (Talk) to last revision by TerryH

2010-08-14T00:19:51Z

Reverted edits by Cruxis (Talk) to last revision by TerryH

Cruxis at 00:17, August 14, 2010

2010-08-14T00:17:34Z

TerryH: /* Cast */

2010-04-24T02:10:07Z

Cast

TerryH: /* Hortense' Demand */

2010-04-05T22:37:49Z

Hortense' Demand

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 Miss McCormack and Miss Heckart were both nominated for [[Golden Globe]] awards for "best supporting actress"; Miss Heckart actually won that award.
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 Miss McCormack and Miss Heckart were both nominated for [[Golden Globe]] awards for "best supporting actress"; Miss Heckart actually won that award.
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 [[Paul of Tarsus]] quotes this and elaborates further:{{Bible quote|as it is written,/"THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;/THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS,/THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD;/ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS;/THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD,/THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE."|book=Romans|chap=3|verses=10-12|version=NASB}}
-And yet, the environment, other than the family environment, is not a sufficient reason why some become criminals and others do not. As the terminal "casting call" sequence ironically demonstrates, the key distinction between a child who turns criminal (even ''as'' a child) and a child who does not, is ''discipline.'' Indeed the [[Bible]] has something to say about this, too, in the words of King [[Solomon]]:{{Bible quote|He who withholds his rod hates his son,/But he who loves him disciplines him diligently.|book=Proverbs|chap=13|verses=24|version=NASB}}
+And yet, the environment, other than the family environment, is not a sufficient reason why some become criminals and others do not. As the terminal "casting call" sequence ironically demonstrates, the key distinction between a child who turns criminal (even ''as'' a child) and a child who does not, is ''discipline.'' Indeed, the [[Bible]] has something to say about this, too, in the words of King [[Solomon]]:{{Bible quote|He who withholds his rod hates his son,/But he who loves him disciplines him diligently.|book=Proverbs|chap=13|verses=24|version=NASB}}
 For "son," read "child," which can include a daughter, too.

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 }}'''The Bad Seed''' was a 1956 [[motion picture]] about a cherubic eight-year-old girl with a few nasty habits&mdash;like lying, cheating, theft&mdash;and murder. The film, like the [[theater|stage play]] from which it was adapted, examines the question of whether a tendency to criminality is inherited, or is acquired from exposure to an unsavory environment, usually a dysfunctional community. This picture is additionally famous for an alteration of the ending of the original subject matter, made necessary for compliance with the [[Motion Picture Production Code]].

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 But now Mr. Bravo reveals that he ''did'' find Christine in "a very strange place." Then Christine reveals her recurring nightmare, about living in a farmhouse with her brother and a very beautiful lady, then not having a brother anymore, then being terrified of being in the room, then being outside in an orchard. Finally she remembers the name she originally had: her name was ''not'' Christine Bravo at all, but Ingold Denker, Bessie Denker's daughter.
-This, then, is the truth: Richard Bravo found Ingold Denker, whom he renamed Christine, in the orchard on the Denker farm after Bessie Denker had died. But Christine now feels that she would have done better to die, because she is afraid that she inherited a tendency to extreme criminality from her real mother, Bessie Denker&mdash;and passed this on to her own daughter, Rhoda Penmark.
+This, then, is the truth: Richard Bravo found Ingold Denker, whom he renamed Christine, in the orchard on the Denker farm after Bessie Denker had fled. But Christine now feels that she would have done better to die, because she is afraid that she inherited a tendency to extreme criminality from her real mother, Bessie Denker&mdash;and passed this on to her own daughter, Rhoda Penmark.
 At this moment, Monica Breedlove returns with Rhoda. Rhoda greets her grandfather cheerfully, but now Richard Bravo takes a long, hard look at his granddaughter, though he will not explain his misgivings. Bravo agrees to stay in a spare room in Monica's apartment overnight.

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 === Retribution ===
-While a [[thunderstorm]] is raging outside over the town and surrounding region, Col. Penmark puts Rhoda to bed and then waits up. He takes a call from the hospital, as Christine desperately wants to confess to Kenneth that she has "sinned a great sin." The colonel says that whatever the problem is, they will face it together.
+While a [[thunderstorm]] is raging outside over the town and surrounding region, Col. Penmark puts Rhoda to bed. Before he leaves her room, Rhoda reveals that Monica has promised to leave Rhoda her pet lovebird if she dies, and that Monica and Rhoda plan to take a sun-bath high on the roof the next day. We may be sure that Rhoda is already planning to collect another treasure, but of course Col. Penmark suspects nothing.
-Rhoda, meanwhile, has put on her raincoat and sou'wester and gone out of the house, in the storm. She walks all the way to the Fern school grounds, and onto the wharf where Claude died. Rhoda wants, quite simply, to retrieve the medal. Using a flashlight, she spots the medal underwater, and takes an old fishing net to try to snag the medal. [[Lightning]] strikes her and knocks her into the water.
+Col. Penmark then waits up. He takes a call from the hospital, as Christine desperately wants to confess to Kenneth that she has "sinned a great sin." The colonel says that whatever the problem is, they will face it together.
 === The Casting Call ===

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 == Cast ==
-* [[Nancy Kelly]] as Christine Bravo Penmark
+* [[Nancy Kelly]] as Christine Bravo Penmark, aka Ingold Denker
 ** [[Patty McCormack]] as Rhoda Penmark, her daughter
-** Paul Fix as Richard Bravo, her father
+** Paul Fix as Richard Bravo, her father&mdash;or so she supposes
 ** [[William Hopper]] as [[Colonel]] Kenneth Penmark, [[United States Air Force|USAF]], her husband
-* Evelyn Varden as Monica Breedlove, the Penmarks' landlady
+* Evelyn Varden as Monica Wages Breedlove, the Penmarks' landlady
 ** Jesse White as Emory Wages, Monica's brother
 ** [[Henry Jones]] as Leroy Jessup, the janitor

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 === Hortense' Demand ===
-When Monica calls to give Rhoda the locket, after it has been modified, Rhoda asks permission to catch the ice-cream man and buy a popsicle. On her way, Rhoda tries to steal several matches. Christine tells her to replace them, but manages to hide two of them. When Rhoda leaves, Monica probes Christine, knowing that something is troubling her, but not knowing what. Monica offers to give Christine some sleeping pills to help her sleep. Christine collapses in a pool of tears, but still is afraid to tell Monica anything. At that moment, Hortense Daigle, drunk as before, returns to the apartment, seeking yet another confrontation, not only with Christine, but this time also with Rhoda. Hortense has by now tried to talk to Miss Fern a dozen times without result, and has also spoken to the lifeguard from the fatal picnic. What she now knows makes her firmly suspect Rhoda of something, though she is not even sure herself what she suspects. Hortense does not succeed in getting the information she seeks, or in scaring Rhoda (because Monica hastily takes Rhoda away on a pretext). But she does succeed in frightening Christine very badly before her husband finally shows up to take her home again.
+When Monica calls to give Rhoda the locket, after it has been modified, Rhoda asks permission to catch the ice-cream man and buy a popsicle. On her way, Rhoda tries to steal several matches. Christine tells her to replace them, but Rhoda manages to hide two of them. When Rhoda leaves, Monica probes Christine, knowing that something is troubling her, but not knowing what. Monica offers to give Christine some sleeping pills to help her sleep. Christine collapses in a pool of tears, but still is afraid to tell Monica anything. At that moment, Hortense Daigle, drunk as before, returns to the apartment, seeking yet another confrontation, not only with Christine, but this time also with Rhoda. Hortense has by now tried to talk to Miss Fern a dozen times without result, and has also spoken to the lifeguard from the fatal picnic. What she now knows makes her firmly suspect Rhoda of something, though she is not even sure herself what she suspects. Hortense does not succeed in getting the information she seeks, or in scaring Rhoda (because Monica hastily takes Rhoda away on a pretext). But she does succeed in frightening Christine very badly before her husband finally shows up to take her home again.
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