What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Registered by 
GoryDetails
of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 10/16/2011
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 10/16/2011 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
I've enjoyed the over-the-top 1962 film since I first saw it, but had never read the book it's based on, so I was glad to find this yellowed-but-sound '70s paperback online.
Later: A very disturbing tale of a washed-up former child star, dark and twisted. While it's difficult to know how I'd have responded to this book if I'd never seen the film, I was impressed both by the level of creeping horror in the book and by the fidelity of the screen adaptation - it's fairly rare for a film to be this faithful to the plot, characters, and mood! The book does include more of Baby Jane's point of view than the film does, but while it adds some sympathy for her - at first - it only makes her subsequent actions more horrifying. Wonderfully dark chiller, here!
[There's a TV Tropes page for this as well, but beware of spoilers!]
Later: A very disturbing tale of a washed-up former child star, dark and twisted. While it's difficult to know how I'd have responded to this book if I'd never seen the film, I was impressed both by the level of creeping horror in the book and by the fidelity of the screen adaptation - it's fairly rare for a film to be this faithful to the plot, characters, and mood! The book does include more of Baby Jane's point of view than the film does, but while it adds some sympathy for her - at first - it only makes her subsequent actions more horrifying. Wonderfully dark chiller, here!
[There's a TV Tropes page for this as well, but beware of spoilers!]
This book's going into my Based on the Book bookbox, with this book serving as the bookbox journal. The box will be on the way to the first participant soon. Enjoy!
Found in the "Based on the Book" bookbox.
To be released as part of the "Based on the Book" bookbox. Sending it off!
Chosen from GoryDetails' Based on the Book bookbox
I only saw this film once, in the late sixties, but it's still quite vivid in memory. First, Bette Davis' appalling costumes and makeup - when I checked IMDB and found the costumes had won an Oscar, I felt good that I'd noticed the "right" detail. And I'm in awe that Miss Davis, an actress of grace and beauty, totally sacrificed all vanity to immerse herself so successfully in a loathsome character.
The second bit is the dead bird under the silver dome on the lunch tray. I can still see Joan Crawford - there must have been some hint to rouse her suspicions - looking back and forth between the tray and her sister's departing back, obviously trying to convince herself 'No, she'd never do anything like THAT,' - and then lifting the cover. One of the most shocking moments in cinema!
I agree with GoryDetails that this and the movie are amazingly close. it's fun to be able to recreate the viewing experience so strongly by reading the book.
But that's just one person's opinion. Future readers, what do YOU think of this book?
The second bit is the dead bird under the silver dome on the lunch tray. I can still see Joan Crawford - there must have been some hint to rouse her suspicions - looking back and forth between the tray and her sister's departing back, obviously trying to convince herself 'No, she'd never do anything like THAT,' - and then lifting the cover. One of the most shocking moments in cinema!
I agree with GoryDetails that this and the movie are amazingly close. it's fun to be able to recreate the viewing experience so strongly by reading the book.
But that's just one person's opinion. Future readers, what do YOU think of this book?
Journal Entry 7 by JudySlump612 at Dunn Bros Coffee - E Lake & W River in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Released 11 yrs ago (9/4/2012 UTC) at Dunn Bros Coffee - E Lake & W River in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
On bookshelves above fireplace
