River - movie look vs. TV look

POSTED BY: Serafimo
UPDATED: Saturday, November 12, 2005 23:35
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SERAFIMO

Saturday, November 5, 2005 6:33 PM

Does anyone else think it's kind of weird how much River's clothes changed from series to movie?

I mean, in Firefly she dressed kind of like an early 1990s high schooler - and this sort of seemed to fit her personality.

And in the movie she's wearing the dark colored flowy dresses almost exclusively.

I realize it's a costume designer decision, but I just thought it was interesting.

N0SKILLZ

Saturday, November 5, 2005 6:35 PM

well, the way i saw it. she was a lil not crazy that day. and was going out, so someone (prolly simon) gave it to her for her to wear.

Then the movie never really slow'd down to were anyone would change (and i don't think they did now that i think of it)

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MIRAMEL

Saturday, November 5, 2005 6:45 PM

i dunno, it seemed to me she favored that type of dress in the series too. or somthing similer. the OiS dress is the same general type i think. they look a bit like colord nightgowns, come to think of it. not complaining mind :)

PHOEBE

Saturday, November 5, 2005 7:02 PM

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Originally posted by N0Skillz:
well, the way i saw it. she was a lil not crazy that day. and was going out, so someone (prolly simon) gave it to her for her to wear.

Then the movie never really slow'd down to were anyone would change (and i don't think they did now that i think of it)

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Death is like sex in high school... If you knew how many times you missed having it you'd be paralyzed- Georgia Lass (Dead Like Me)

*Andersen AFB, Guam*

River wears four different dresses in the movie. One in the opening, one in the Maidenhead scenes, one during the final scenes, and one during her very final scene.

N0SKILLZ

Saturday, November 5, 2005 7:07 PM

well shows how much i payed attention to wat they were wearing, lol

*scampers off to buy the movie and find his downloaded copy so he can watch it again*

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Death is like sex in high school... If you knew how many times you missed having it you'd be paralyzed- Georgia Lass (Dead Like Me)

*Andersen AFB, Guam*

EMBERS

Saturday, November 5, 2005 7:22 PM

I figured that she arrived on the ship naked,
and Simon, being a man, hadn't planned any clothes for the poor girl...
so most of the clothes she wore early on where the cast-off extras of Kaylee or Inara...
she was eventually able to buy some clothes for herself and she favored nice light weight dresses that allowed her to move like a dancer,
like we see in Objects in Space, and in the BDM

JMPO of course....

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MALICIOUS

Sunday, November 6, 2005 1:35 AM

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Originally posted by N0Skillz:
...Then the movie never really slow'd down to were anyone would change (and i don't think they did now that i think of it)

Well, Inara sure had lots of pretty changes of clothes to wear, considering they left her training house so quickly and I don't recall her packing anything or them carrying any suitcases. I'm ASSUMING all those outfits were in the box of things Mal said she left on the shuttle?

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VISITINGMYINTENTIONS

Sunday, November 6, 2005 1:54 AM

I thought the movie look was a designed version of her TV look, i.e. her TV look was a ramshackle, put-together-from-other-folks'-clothes look, while her look in the BDM (okay, so I'm only thinking about the bar scene, as I don't remember the other) was "artfully not quite right". Like those goth kids who pay to have their fishnets pre-ripped.

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BLINKER

Sunday, November 6, 2005 3:16 AM

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Well, Inara sure had lots of pretty changes of clothes to wear, considering they left her training house so quickly and I don't recall her packing anything or them carrying any suitcases. I'm ASSUMING all those outfits were in the box of things Mal said she left on the shuttle?

Feels to me like the box was written in just to explain where Mal's dress came from, so sure... no reason it can't account for all of hers too.

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Sunday, November 6, 2005 3:22 AM

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Originally posted by Malicious:
Well, Inara sure had lots of pretty changes of clothes to wear, considering they left her training house so quickly and I don't recall her packing anything or them carrying any suitcases. I'm ASSUMING all those outfits were in the box of things Mal said she left on the shuttle?

this is one of the things that is fun to read in the Visual Companion...
Joss threw it in as a throw away line...
and then it turned out to explain a bunch of stuff,
plus both Morena and Nathan had a whole 'back story about it'
Joss asked Nathan who said that Mal had opened the box, and had smelled every item she left behind...
so Joss asked Morena and she said Inara on purposely left all the sweetest smelling things behind just to drive him crazy
(they both came to this independent of each other)

pretty funny, huh?

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