Something that I thought about when I saw the movie on DVD: how would the kids feel if they knew about what really happened to their moms? Would they even know in the first place that their flesh-and-blood moms were killed and made into the robot "moms" that are now raising them?
shareMy take on this was that some (or all) of the kids had been "robotized" as
well. When Joanna's children got on the school bus, all of the children were
so eerily quiet. It made me wonder about them as well.
Interesting enough, one of the three made-for-television sequels was called
"The Stepford Children" and starred Barbara Eden and Arthur Hill (as "Dis").
In one scene. surly "punked out" kid was taken out in a boat and returned
as a "preppie."
There's no indication that the children are robotized, at least in this film.
The idea is that not only are the Men so talented that they create robots 'so real that the kids don't notice', but its another indication by author Ira Levin that the mom exists only on a *surface* level to the kids as well as the husbands!
For example, in the novel, Joanna comments to one of the kids of a newly robotized woman:
Joanna (sadly): "I can't get over how much your mother's changed!"
Little Boy: "I know! She doesn't shout any more, she makes hot breakfasts...I hope it lasts. But I bet it doesn't."
So the kids, like the husbands, don't see their spouses/moms as real human beings.
They're just to serve them.
So they'd be unlikely, at least for some time, to be alarmed by any changes in them.
I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.
Eventually, yes. It’s quite a plot hole, the kids and dog would immediately sense something was different.
Remember the scene when Joanna comforts her sad child who is unhappy in Stepford? How would that scene go with a sex-bot trying to comfort the kid? They’d know something was weird about Mom.
As the kids grow up and become more worldly they’d put the pieces together about their moms, and their friend’s moms.
Still, it doesn’t really detract from the film. It rubs in the fact that these men are grubby, desperate losers who will do anything to get those big fake tits and unlimited robo-pussy.
the book is dumb.
i feel like Ira tried hard to recreate the paranoid atmosphere of "Rosemary's Baby"
and failed..