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« on: November 14, 2014, 07:44:29 AM »
Q shows wolf painting to Tate. Tate meets A Harris in The Dress. In earlier viewings, I recall it being very interesting coming around to the idea that Tate might actually be able to create things and people by painting them, when there were just indirect implications of this. It wasn't a given from the start. It didn't happen in Dorian Gray. And you have to have the question going on in the back of your head, what if he tries to do it again, on purpose... with a human being? Maybe some viewers were so devoid of imagination that this possibility didn't leap to mind, but I would have no understanding of such people...
Amanda's "birthday" is March 11, 1895. She's in her "terrible twos". Watch out... Tate figures out that his very first sketch of her was done on that date... making me wonder if Q was saved with Tate's first sketch, and why all the sketches didn't become wolves... and would the existence of any of one of them guarantee Q's freedom from the curse, as well as the portrait? I have this science fiction mind you see, ferretting out practical and human consequences of "technology"...
When Tate later painted her with the uberfrilly pink dress, did that dress appear on her or in her closet? Well, maybe it was in sketch #1, but in b&w...
Cool moment... Tate creates a vase. This shows what an unimaginative artist he was, that he never drew or painted anything not right in front of him, except for Miss Harris and her jewelry. Or if he did, it had always popped up elsewhere in the world, and not in his studio, before now. Oops, I'm delving too deeply into the "logic" of all this, and ripping it to shreds, maybe. Better back off. But... maybe by specifying certain surroundings, in this case the already arranged and drawn still life, by drawing the vase as part of that, he was directing the popping-into-existence to occur in that specified spot. Maybe he has to include a setting of the studio in the drawing/painting.
What a great cliffhanger, where many viewers yelled "Aha! I KNEW it!" probably... All without special effects, unless you count a stagehand walking over and putting a vase on a table...