Watched 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane'

[Oeditpus Rex]

for the first time last night, and I don't get the Big Reveal at the end. How could Blanche become paraplegic if she was the one driving the car into the gate, trying to hit Jane?

[FalloutShelter]

1. Blanche dies ...

And Jane finally goes off the deep end.

[Ocelot II]

2. Blanche caused the accident, and then framed Jane by dragging herself in front of the car

after she was injured.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. But how was she injured badly enough

to become paraplegic?

[Ocelot II]

6. It's a movie. But even if it was real life she could have sustained a serious injury

that was potentially paralyzing, but she still would have been able to crawl out of the car to stage the accident. It would have been possible for the injury to worsen after that, or even because of it, and cause paraplegia.

[GreenWave]

3. Did she ever grow up and stop that crazy thing?

[Keepthesoulalive]

5. Perhaps you're overthinking this.

[Keepthesoulalive]

8. Is that an insult?

Many times Hollywood takes license to make things entertaining. Most things in movies don’t add up but we take it for what it’s worth. I think Billy Wilder was one of the few director/ writers who was a stickler for realism in his movies.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. 'Most things in movies don't add up'

What movies have you watched? Even in absurd comedies such as Monty Python and the Holy Grail or What's Up, Doc?, there's always a reason, a set-up, for everything, unless the writers and/or director have left a hole in the plot.

That's what I think this is. If not, I missed something. Perhaps it was too subtle or perhaps I just blinked. In any case, I want to know what it was, not to be dismissed with a simplistic "That's just how movies are."

[Keepthesoulalive]

10. Okay

Hubby and I are movie nuts, we probably have over a thousand movies. He likes movies like Double Indemnity and action movies like Jack Reacher. I like 30’s and 40’s dark house like the Thin Man and Charlie Chan, very broad comedies , Kaiju, parodies and Marvel before they started stinking up the place. It’s only a flesh wound. Yes Eunice.

[Morbius]

11. Weakened by Jane's torture and near death, Blanche confesses.

Blanche caused her own accident. She tried to run Jane over for drunkenly mocking her at a party. Blanche dragged herself out to the front of the car to stage the accident and blame Jane. Maybe it's good to remember that 1962 was before "Unsafe at Any Speed," by Ralph Nader, which opened the eyes of the public about automobile safety. It was definitely possible to get a spinal injury behind wheel.