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Pretty sure I've seen screencaps of the chess piece. And I'll look again on Saturday!
As for "Moll," that's what I heard, too, and I think it's not a coincidence. When we first see Mal, she seems to be a double-crossing femme fatale. Really, she's neither mal nor moll.
megan, did you at least appreciate that Cobb/DiCaprio used the French inflection on Philippa ?
So did I. Because Mal is a ridiculous name for a French person.
Well, yes. I couldn't even find anything that it would be short for.
Yeah, "Mal" didn't cross my mind until I got here, and I still had to look it up.
What ita and megan said about Moll/Mal. I thought Moll was cute, and it never occurred to me he was saying Mal.
I thought it was Moll too! But then Americans pronouncing names is a problem for me in general for me. I though Tara in Buffy was Terra for the first year or so.
I'd been assuming Moll the whole movie, but the credits disagreed with me.
I also assumed Moll.
Oh, thank god it wasn't just me.
But he pronounces it sort of in the middle of the two languages so I put it down to that.
Plus, his two kids had such British sounding names that at a certain point I began to wonder if she was even supposed to be French.
Oh, so here's another question which may have been answered by the credits but I didn't notice.
Is Michael Caine Cobb's father or Mal's father?
They don't have surnames in IMDB, so that doesn't help.