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dhmason6155
shambler
(11/22/02
1:28:51 am)
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Why Noah was in
the chair.
One recurring question is how did Noah end up in the chair? No one
knows exactly how he got there, but a chair was a very powerful
symbol for Samara: There was a chair in front of her TV in the barn.
She sat in a chair when she was interrogated by Dr Scott. There is a
chair in the cursed video which morphs into a larger chair and then
another even bigger one almost too rapidly to notice. The same chair
appears seconds later spinning upside down. One prominent image in
the movie was when Rachel woke up Aidens baby sitter, asleep in a
reclining chair in the same position as Noahs body. It seems to me
that to Samara, a chair symbolized subjugation and imprisonment. She
was forced to sit in chairs by the dominant male authority figures
in her life.
Any thoughts?
D.
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inteferon
everyone will suffer
(11/22/02 2:21:35 am)
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Re: Why Noah was
in the chair.
We should form a comittee on this; you can chair 
There's also a prominent chair in the centapede sequence.
I've been scratching my head about the curse tape chair. Like the
ladder, first it's in one orientation, then another. I don't have an
answer.
The babysitter/Noah chair thing was, IMO, a typical
thriller device. With the baby sitter, we were filled with
apprehension, followed by anticlimax. We would normally have had our
guard down when she approached Noah's chair, except the device was
ineffective because we had seen what Noah had recently experienced
(and also the effect of that experience on Katie). My opinon on this
one: build up to a cheap, derivative thrill.
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miharu
everyone will suffer
(11/22/02 2:56:34 am)
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Re: Why Noah was
in the chair.
remember rachel's vision of samara sitting on a chair in her
apartment, over a puddle of water? replace samara with bloaty-noah
and there you go.
i'm fairly convinced that samara set noah
up that way because she knew that rachel would discover him. after
all, rachel WAS trying to call him at the time of his fate catching
up to him.
now, the question is.. if samara wanted to set
that up, WHY?
to scare rachel into figuring out the cure and
passing the tape along to save aidan? that's my best theory.
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inteferon
everyone will suffer
(11/22/02 4:18:27 am)
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Re: Why Noah was
in the chair.
I agree, miharu. But don't you think Rachael would have been just
as scared and just as motivated had she found Noah simply crumpled
on the floor?
Anyhow, the death positions subject has been
dissected left, right and center on this thread: pub70.ezboard.com/ftherin...1069.topic
Edited by: inteferon
at: 11/22/02 4:43:29 am
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pargo
the rookie
Sadako
slave
(11/22/02 11:40:30
am)
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the chair
My brother has that exact chair (hand me down from Dad). I'll never
look at it the same again.
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Ghetto
Ring
manipulator of the
Virus
(11/22/02 1:38:41
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Re: the
chair
Did anyone notice that the first chair scene in the video ahad the
chair upside down in only one frame?
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-One man, one obsession: The
Ring!
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angrygn0me
further down the Spiral
(11/22/02 5:15:36 pm)
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!!
Samara likes chairs. Not couches, because the man who invented the
couch stole from the man who invented the chair, he just glued two
chairs together. Samara frowns upon those who cannot have an
original thought and therefore makes alot of chairs appear in her
videos and even seats victims in chairs, crying out for the rights
of the first chair's inventor. Samara is an activist, and my hero.
Fight the power.
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Turtle
God Kame
moderator
(11/22/02
5:24:15 pm)
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heh
"Samara frowns upon those who cannot have an original
thought"
she's one to talk!
>)
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House for assorted junk! Last upd8:
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inteferon
everyone will suffer
(11/22/02 5:27:19 pm)
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Re: heh
The Turtle lands an uppercut. Samara reels. But look, she's getting
to her feet....one.....two....
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