Friday, December 12, 2008

She Will Go Insane, And She Will Take Him With Her

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JA from MNPP here, with a question: How do you suppose Beetlejuice's Delia (Catherine O'Hara) and Charles Deetz (Jeffrey Jones) met? His first wife had died. So he meets Delia somewhere somehow, yadda yadda they get married, and then soon enough he's had a nervous breakdown and moved the family to the country (and into the home of poor dead Adam and Barbara).

I can certainly understand having a nervous breakdown after marrying Delia, but I just never really understood what those two saw in each other in the first place. She with her leather glove headbands and her insect-like sculptures and her Otho, he with his button-down shirts and congenial grin and general befuddlement whenever in her presence. What's their deal?

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