Two of the most iconic props, Othello's handkerchief and bed, are transformed into an eroticized red pattascarf that doubles as ceremonial wedding sheets in the South Indian film Kliyattam(dir. Jayaraj, 1997) to signify fertility and life and, in turn, to highlight the lack thereof.
There are moments here that freeze the soul, as when he suddenly advises Othello not to poison Desdemona, but to strangle her in her wedding sheets, as though it were just a helpful piece of advice about an impersonal problem of logistics.
Like the unemployed Italian man in "The Bicycle Thief" who gets hired to put up movie posters and has to pawn his wedding sheets to buy the bike required for the job, the Tampa family had to sell some of their DVDs so the father could buy decent clothes and shoes and pay for gas.
His wife pawns her wedding sheets to buy him a bicycle, but it is stolen on the first day of his new job.
I baked wedding and sheet cakes, cookies, tarts, and petit fours.
She demands that they hang out their wedding-night sheet to prove that Karen was, as she and her friends say, pure.
She put the video together a few days before the wedding by throwing up a sheet in her home office and hitting record.
Wrap the wedding gown in this cotton sheet and then put it inside the plastic bag in a flat position until the dress is delivered to the professional dry cleaner.
WEEKS after my husband and I married, we received the contact sheets from our wedding photographer, expecting confirmation of what a beautiful, charming, happy couple we had been.
"They know that you can pour blood on the sheets on the wedding night, so I have to have better proof".
