Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

[james_davis_nicoll]

Man, that's some crummy design for a house with a handicapped person in it. Is that more for narrative convenience (it keeps Blanche a prisoner on the second floor) or a reflection of just how awful people were at accommodating the needs of the disabled back then?

They did a remake about 30 years after the first one. If they keep to that schedule, another remake should be along around 2020. I would not do what the 1990s remake did and change when it is set because the movie (as was mentioned to me) has a very cell-phone unfriendly plot.

Hmmm. Assuming the actors are about the same age as Bette Davis was in WHTBJ, actors who will be the right age in 202* would include Charlize Theron, Drew Barrymore and Angelina Jolie.

(It's Blanche's house and she's not poor, so money isn't the issue)

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[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

It also made perfect sense that Jane would make those arrangements in order to be shitty to Blanche, and that nobody (doctors, etc.) would question it in those days.