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I have to correct myself

Posted by:	AlanScott 04:42 pm EDT 09/11/14
In reply to:	re: To try to answer you a bit more fully - AlanScott 04:16 pm EDT 09/11/14

While some of the scene between Fredrik and Anne at home, after they've returned from the play, is very similar in the Bergman screenplay and the musical, there is not the suggestion that he told her fairy tales during one particular summer. Of course, the musical does not explicitly state that the summer was the summer after his wife died, but I've always understood it to mean that. ("You were so lonely and sad that summer. I felt terribly sorry for you, so I said: Poor thing, I'll marry him.") Perhaps this was added to try to make it clear that Fredrik's wife did die long ago. But since Fredrika's age is given as 13, and Anne is 18, that would mean that she was four or five when she was thinking, "Poor thing. I'll marry him." Which seems to make it an awfully long time for her to have thought about it before it happened. There is some darker Bergman stuff in the Fredrik-Anne scene that did not make it into the musical.

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