grgstv338 wrote:

Re Joe's question about Hooper & Mrs. Brody and the dinner scene, I never got a particularly romantic vibe between them. Rather, I get the sense that Mrs. Brody - who's been reminded by locals that she'll never be considered an islander and thus will always be something of an outsider there - is delighted to have a friendly and engaging visitor drop by, especially since Hooper's also not an islander but a fellow outsider; in a sense, it comes across more as an American abroad running into a fellow American traveler.


I just wanted to make it clear that I didn't say there was a romantic vibe between them; I just suggested that it seemed that Ellen was taken with Hooper. And the way you've described it here sounds about right. The reason I first brought it up was in relation to the talk from the book regarding the "affair". This is of course dropped for the movie, but it's the only moment in the film where Ellen seems to be interested at all in Hooper.