out by sixteen or dead on the scene, but together forever
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my thoughts on the trilogy, mainly the first film
so, brigitte and ginger are on a playground when ginger begins menstruation and is subsequently attacked by the werewolf.
throughout, the werewolf and the lycanthropic virus serves as a metaphor for puberty in ginger (e.g. she's growing hair in places she didn't before, boys are noticing her & vice versa, she's gaining sexual urges, etc etc).
a playground, being a place where children play is an obvious representation of innocence, which ginger is snatched from as she is taken away by the werewolf and mauled in the forest. brigitte remains on the playground, as she does not experience menstruation and the eventual werewolf transformation until the second film (ginger snaps 2: unleashed).
this is really excellent story telling god i love ginger snaps (which i feel could also be interpreted as a trans story if you like squint your eyes a little)
tldr; playground metaphor for innocence, werewolf metaphor for puberty and "becoming a woman" quote unquote
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11/16/24
trina and brigitte and sam something something codependency
the first film was, in my interpretation, brigitte learning that she didn't have to be in ginger's shadow. wolf!ginger abandoned brigitte at the drop of a hat to pursue a "normal" life, being noticed by boys, sex, etc but that is not to say she was being malicious. i think ginger wanted those things but couldn't outwardly express them for fear of being trina (vapid, bitchy, viewed negatively for being with sam if you squint your eyes)
and then thats the whole suicide pact thing. the suburbs and conformity seemed beneath the fitzgeralds and so they chose not to participate. but they did anyway because of a force of nature (werewolf, mr. beast of bailey downs.)
brigitte ended up being around sam (interest in member of opposite sex, reflects trina and ginger), eventually transformed (albeit into an uglier, deformed creature than ginger), grew up, got the curse (womanhood).
the entire suicide pact thing seemed childish, also. they decided to kill themselves or leave bailey downs as children and just went with it, not knowing that they'd be forced into "adulthood" (lycanthropy) and it might not be as terrible as they thought. idk, and brigitte defies ginger multiple times (refusing to become what she became, although she did, not encouraging ginger to kill others, working with sam for a cure).
they evaded adulthood and becoming conformists just for that to be the outcome, although it was brutal
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my musings on the 1996 script
i'm reading a ginger snaps draft script from 96. ginger (ripping open an animal fetus in science class, lobbing its brain at trina's head. chugging jack daniels after being mauled by a werewolf) and brigitte (watching your sister maul your neighbor's dog, proceed to vomit) were a lot more unhinged in this version. makes sense why they cut some of this material because i couldn't IMAGINE this being in the actual film.
helping your sister maul dogs in the neighborhood is completely normal, by the way. its like brigitte has become her assistant of sorts.
i find this little excerpt to be incredibly sad. one of the points of the first film is how brigitte and ginger grow apart after ginger's transformation,and i feel this line shows that exceptionally well. brigitte's all alone, feeling defenseless without her sister at her side. :(