Dear Jennifer Connelly,

Do you have a thing for docks? I'm watching house of sand and fog, and there's a pretty extended scene of you at the end of one. You were also at the end of one in Dark City and (if my memory serves) Requiem for a dream. What gives?

Yours Always,
Philihp

12/7/2005 1:18:26 AM

dick or dock?

12/7/2005 1:37:25 AM

doubledong?

12/7/2005 3:12:35 AM

ass to ass?

12/7/2005 3:13:56 AM

Also - In Dark City & Requiem - these scenes of her on a dock, show her from a far with her back turned, mysteriously viewed by a man - whom eventually smiles upon realizing the identity of the woman ..... at first they were not sure if they really knew her & were cautious with ever getting too close to her........ but in Requiem, she suddenly falls off & the man can not catch her in time......

OH also - i'm pretty sure both dark city & requiem were filmed at Coney Island, NY

OH MY GOD - maybe it was the exact same dock!

The real stand out difference is that, in Requiem, this scene was not real, but a prophetic
dream / nightmare that Jared Leto's character has...

[Edited on December 7, 2005 at 3:40 AM. Reason : r]

12/7/2005 3:30:37 AM

I have just now come to the obvious conclusion that this scene happens many times in many films & that the ONLY factor causing anyone to even have a second thought about such scene during the film is Jennifer Connolly.

It's just one of those neat little de ja vus that people rarely get to experience & be able to figure out the sources for the feeling .....

I bet the scene occured in Herbert Selby's book, that he helped Darren ARonowsky adapt into a screenplay for the movie.... Aronowsky loves Coney Island & is either from there or somewhere near it.... He used this setting for his movie Pi a good time before making Requiem. Coney Island has piers & such a scene can visually symbolize the common nightmare that people have concerning someone "falling"......



[Edited on December 7, 2005 at 4:15 AM. Reason : OK i'm done now]

12/7/2005 4:15:47 AM

House of Sand and Fog... Yes, amazingly, right at the end of the film, just when we were thinking they wouldn't show her on a pier (better word than dock for them), they have almost the exact same shot of her once again!

All three, btw, are great movies, especially Requiem and Dark City.

12/7/2005 5:22:32 AM

I found this interview with Jennifer
http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=interviews&id=3287

Q: Is Dark Water going to have a scene with you standing on a pier? Is this going to be your fourth film with that?

Connelly: [laughs] No it won’t! It’s funny, I said to Vadim [Perelman, director of House of Sand and Fog] “Wait, how many times have I done this now?” No, it was three times. Two in a red dress. I had one pier in a red dress in Dark City and then a pier in a red dress in Requiem for a Dream. I said to Darren, “You know, I have to tell you that I did a scene in a red dress on a pier in another film, can I change the dress? Should we mix it up a bit?” So we did talk about it. And then of course House of Sand and Fog. It’s quite unusual.

it's simply coincedence for Connelly & for people who've seen these 3 movies, but logically so, since all settings made sense that they were in cities where it's common to see docks / piers & easily stood out to the director's artistic eye & hope for saving $ on filming location ideas.........

if it were a scene on a dock in some movie that seemed gratuitous & random..... i'd accuse them of knowingly using this same actress in this same scene on purpose just to spark gossip....

i read some opinions saying the house of sand director didn't have a good idea for the movie's ending & decided show her on a pier, & "risk" "type-casting" Jennifer for a 3rd time, hahahah. but those were from bad reviews of the film & biased imo.......

[Edited on December 7, 2005 at 6:53 AM. Reason : hio]]

12/7/2005 6:52:06 AM

^ That interview is pretty funny

12/7/2005 8:47:59 AM