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re: The song is only creepy if you choose to see it that way

Posted by: LegitOnce 06:43 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: re: The song is only creepy if you choose to see it that way - singleticket 06:38 pm EST 11/21/14
Perhaps little Gigi is being tastefully marketed to Gaston while she is a little girl or perhaps not.

Have you actually seen this movie? There is no way that can be imagined that Gigi is being "marketed" to Gaston, precisely the contrary in fact. Gaston has shown no interest in very young girls; his mistress is played by Eva Gabor who in real life was a couple of years older than Louis Jourdan. Later he squires Monique van Vooren, 30ish but statuesque and sophisticated, to the "Battle of Flowers." His type (in mistresses) is clearly established as mature, hyperfeminine blondes.

Gigi is the exact opposite of that type, which is why Gaston really doesn't want Gigi to be his mistress. He makes the offer because he can't conceive of any other sort of romantic relationship with a woman. (Of course, one generally was not in love with one's wife.) Gigi makes the same assumption: she doesn't come from a family of women who marry.

I don't have a DVD of the film handy, but I seem to recall a scene in which Aunt Alicia and Mamita are startled to realize that Gaston is attracted to Gigi. They decide that though this turn of events is unexpected, they need to put Gigi's training into high gear so she is ready when he makes an offer. So unless Alicia and Mamita are, in complete privacy, playing out a charade that they were unaware of Gaston's feelings, it only makes sense that they were "grooming" Gigi for someone else--eventually.


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