Fatal attraction - does anyone know what Ellen was doing with the sticky paper?

[AnnieS]

I’m sure there’s a thread about this already, but I have a question. Does anyone know what Ellen (the little girl) was doing with the sticky paper?

nb I have chosen random tags as no idea how to find a meaningful one!

[Psmith]

Sorry no.If it were sticky back plastic on Blue Peter it would be something very useful I’m sure.

[butterscotch]

It’s been many years since I’ve watched Fatal Attraction, so I looked it up, trying to find something on youtube to watch about it. I found this instead.

Is this what you’re describing? The fruit roll ups?

In ‘‘Fatal Attraction,’’ Mr. Lyne said he ‘‘tried hard to put style in the background’’ and add the minutiae of detail that would make the family real. He said he was proudest of a scene in an elevator, in which Michael Douglas is talking to his wife (Anne Archer) while she is telling her daughter not to chew gum and the 5-year-old (Ellen Hamilton Latzen) is trying to get her daddy’s attention. ‘‘It adds the seeming irrelevancies that are most important,’’ he said. Selective Appropriation

The use of sticky fruit rolls and dumb card tricks, Mr. Lyne said, was taken from his own life with his second wife and their 12-year-old daughter. He has three older children from his first marriage. When accused of stealing a shocking moment from Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1954 movie ‘‘Diabolique,’’ he grins shamelessly and points out that he lifted another shot - when a face suddenly appears in a steamy mirror - from ‘‘Closely Watched Trains.’’

‘‘You are always a thief - a selector, not a director,’’ he said.

[PixieKnuckles]

Oh I thought you were talking about fly paper?

I don’t watch a lot of movies

[AnnieS]

Aha they are sticky fruit rolls. I had never heard of “fruit leather”

[butterscotch]

@AnnieS

Aha they are sticky fruit rolls. I had never heard of “fruit leather”

Very common in the US, especially for children. I didn’t realize it wasn’t as common in the UK.

[Percy_Vere]

@AnnieS

Aha they are sticky fruit rolls. I had never heard of “fruit leather”

I had something like that on one of my visits to Sith Efrica. Apricot fresh dried out and rolled flat. The stall holder told me it called fruit biltong and that’s what I’ve called it ever since.

[AnnieS]

@butterscotch

Very common in the US, especially for children. I didn’t realize it wasn’t as common in the UK

I’ve never seen them here. They sell some fruit spiral things in a pack but they are little. Makes sense now that her mother was telling her it’s the last one and why she was licking it. It has puzzled me since I first saw the film and it was on tv again last night. I always thought it was some kind of fly paper!