March Inklings 2021: Mirror Scene in Friendly Persuasion
I’m once again joining Heidi’s Inklings linkup. This time it is a mirror scene, Harry Potter of course popped into my head, I used that for the first and also thought of it for the 2nd and will apparently continue to think of it first, but I’ve used my allotted amount. In reading Heidi’s for some reason that prompted me of the scene in Friendly Persuasion (I love this film).
It’s such a quick scene, but so perfect in detail. This movie is full of such scenes, of normal things with an undercurrent of humor and quaintness, it’s such a comfort film even with the war featuring a bit at the end.
Mattie is a Quaker girl in love with a handsome Union soldier who is obviously NOT Quaker. Her mother is a very strict Quaker, so Mattie doesn’t have much to do to get ready for church (on the way to which she just might happen to see and be seen), but when her little brother Jess comes to tell her to hurry up, she is pretending to be a fine lady in her “boudoir” finishing her “toilett-y.”
When Little Jess comes in, she is looking at herself critically in the mirror much to Little Jess’s amusement, and she asks him if he thinks she’s pretty. He considers this very carefully for a moment, and then delivers his assessment in perfect youthful dead seriousness, “Thee isn’t ugly.”
8 Comments
moviecriticqueen
Aw, Little Jess sounds adorable! I’ve heard a lot about this movie but have never seen it. Good pick!
Rachel Olivia
Little Jess is hilarious. I highly recommend this movie.
Skye
All I want to hear, really. XD
Rachel Olivia
Lol!
Ivy Spargur
What a sweet scene : )
Rachel Olivia
It is, this movie is just so sweet.
Elizabeth
I really want to use ‘Thee isn’t ugly’ ironically as a phrase now so thank you for that XD
Rachel Olivia
That’s great, I love when funny lines that can be used randomly in real life.