Yvette is a rather unique character in the movie. She connects most of the guests through the grand conspiracy of being Ms. Scarlet’s top “call girl” at her business connecting her to Col. Mustard and Mrs. White. Ms. Scarlet also expands the web in her ending to include both Mrs. Peacock and Prof. Plum for […]
When the name of Tim Curry comes up, it’s probably an age check to see what role he played springs to mind. I would imagine most older generations would think of Dr. Frankenfurter. My wife thinks of Long John from Muppet Treasure Island. But to me, it’s Wadsworth all the way. It would be hard […]
First, a little inside baseball. Upon watching the credits of this movie several times as a kid, I found it funny that the name of the actor playing the part of “Mr. Boddy” is “Lee Ving” and thought how brave/cruel his parents must’ve been. I eventually discovered that he was the lead singer for a […]
I wish I could say that I saved the best dinner guest character for last, but in truth Prof. Plum is just a bit of the odd man out. Not to say that he isn’t important; he’s probably one of the strongest characters in the movie, has some of the best gags, has a host […]
These remaining character studies I fear will be much shorter than the first few so far. And that’s not to say because these characters aren’t interesting; it’s that I’ve covered a lot of my plot holes and logical issues I’ve had with them already. I’m sure it would be tedious for me to just keep […]
I feel like I haven’t been giving the cast their comedic due on these character studies, so I’ll take this time to gush a bit. As far as the movie goes, Martin Mull’s performance of Col. Mustard is probably the funniest in the film. I know, that is a very tall order when the rest […]
So I’d always had it stick in my craw about how 2 of the 3 endings were not physically possible ever since I first watched the movie. And the thought of Mr. Green throwing out his own bogus reason for being blackmailed to avoid the real reason coming out. But, while writing the Ms. Scarlet […]
Had so much fun writing up my Mr. Green character study, I thought I’d do a series. So, here’s the next-most-interesting character from the movie: Ms. Scarlet. In the last one of these I had a deep theory on Mr. Green’s backstory. This time around it’s a bit more straight-forward: The only ending that works […]
So, I saw a twitter breakdown of the movie CLUE, comparing it to an old 1960s(?) version of “Ten Little Indians”. It is offhand lamented that the scriptwriters felt they needed to make sure a homosexual didn’t end up being the hero. So, in the closing scene of the 3rd and “real” ending of the […]
