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Actors: Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Pretty Baby |
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It is 1917 and the last months of legal prostitution in the red light district of Storyville, New Orleans. Hattie (Sarandon)is a prostitute who lives and work in the home of Madame Nell (Faye). One day photographer Ernest J. Bellocq (Carradine) comes by to take pictures at the house and Hattie and her twelve year old daughter Violet (Shields) are the only two people in the house who are awake so he takes pictures of Hattie while her daughter watches. What Violet sees fascinates her. Over the course of the next few months, Nell arranges for the auction of Violet's virginity while Hattie meets and falls in love with a rich, respectable man and moves with him to St. Louis, leaving her daughter behind. Violet believes herself to be in love with Bellocq and pleased beyond words at her feelings and attraction for him, he marries her and takes her away to live with him. However their relationship is fraught with problems as Violet is still really a child and finds it difficult to fit into her husband's world. She finds herself missing her mother more every day and hoping for her return.
--Patti Illsley, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Pretty Baby |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1900-1920's
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- prostitute
Age group
- trouble in grade school
Sexing?
- first sexual experience
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- prostitute/concubine
Age:
- a kid
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) long wavey
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average build
Unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southwest
City?
Yes
City:
- New Orleans
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing full frontal--women
- sex under blankets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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