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| “ | Jed: Hey, come on. Look, I was just having a bit of fun, come on. Joe: F*** off. Jed: I was just trying to cheer you up, Joe. Joe: F*** off. Jed: I was just trying to cheer you up. Come on, Joe, Jo-Jo. Joe [grabs Jed and shoves him up against the fence]: Listen to me, listen to me. If you ever, ever, ever f***ing bother me again, if you ever come anywhere f***ing near me, I will follow you, I will find you and I will gut you like a f***ing fish, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!. Jed: You started this, you made this happen. Why don't you admit it? You pretend it's not happening, nothing's happening? YOU F***! Giving me all your secret f***ing signals so that I come towards you! Why don't you leave me alone, eh?! What do you want?! What do you want?!?! I love you! I love you! And now you're trying to f***ing destroy me. GOD ONLY KNOWS WHERE I'D BE WITHOUT YOU!. |
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| ~ As he has a emotional breakdown over Joe during a threating argument with him after Joe left work over Jed stalking him at work. |
Jed Parry is the titular main antagonist of the 1997 novel Enduring Love and its 2004 film adaptation of the same name.
He is a religious man diagnosed with Erotomania (de Clerambault's syndrome). Parry starts to stalks Joe Rose after a rescue on the hot air balloon over his dangerous and disturbing homosexual obsession with him.
He was portrayed by Rhys Ifans, who also played Eyeball Paul in Kevin & Perry Go Large, Adrian in Little Nicky, Vladis Grutas in Hannibal Rising, Uncle Phil in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Edward de Vere in Anonymous, The Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man: No Way Home, Grigori Rasputin in The King's Man, Otto Hightower in House of the Dragon, and James Hook in Neverland.
History[]
Jed Parry first appeared as one of the rescuers climbing on top of the hot air balloon trying to rescue Mrs. Logan's son, they fall down safe (expect for her husband John Logan), after John Logan's death, he tells Joe to "pray for him" as he prays for him beginning his dangerous and disturbing homosexual obsession with Joe Rose. The next day he calls Joe he asks how did you get Joe's phone number claiming that "the police gave it to me" asking him to come outside so that they can talk about what happened at the hot air balloon site. Joe looks out of the window and sees Jed standing weirdly across at the playground from his house staring up at Joe's house window. Joe is uncomfortable about this but Jed promises that he will "leave Joe alone" if he comes outside and talks to him. After Jed makes some weird comments instead of asking what happened at the hot air balloon site which makes Joe uncomfortable, he decides to leave Jed, asking him to leave him alone. Later he seen in the art gallery exiting it as Joe and Claire enters the art gallery.
The next day, Joe visit a bookstore, Jed follows him at the bookstore with his camera taking a photo of him, Joe gets confused and angered on why he won't leave him alone and asks him that he does not want to see him at all. He gets hurt by this and continues to tell Joe to "be brave" and admit what passed between them at the field is that they have a "strong connection together" as he leaves him in confusion.
The next day, Joe is at the cafeteria at the college where he works. At lunch, he sits down with a colleague and then spots Jed sitting at the table next to him. He shouts at Jed, causing a scene when Jed tells him to "be brave" again. Joe tells Jed that all he wants is for Jed to leave him alone, which after hearing this, Jed leaves college. The next day while leaving work, Joe finds Jed at a nearby street eating a burger alone without speaking or finding Joe and walks away shortly afterwards.
The next day, Joe goes swimming alone when being finished he looks up to see Jed, standing by the window of the pool. Joe asks him to meet up with him in the café. They talk and Joe demands to know why Jed won't leave him alone, He replies "God's love", Joe asks him what was he doing in the field in the first piece doing the rescuing of John and Mrs. Logan's son, after hearing a word from Mrs. Logan about this a day earlier, He asked him "was he following John Logan", Jed says he didn't claiming "he never followed anyone in his life", Jed claimed he was just "looking for his dog", but Joe says he didn't had a dog because he saw him in the field without a dog, Jed, once again, makes Joe uneasy by replying "God have bought us together that what that it is love" and reveals to him his plan to get rid of his girlfriend Claire so that he and Joe can "go away together so that they can forget about her".
The next day at Joe's lecture, Jed turns up in his class and sings The Beach Boys song "God Only Knows" to him, he violently exit the building and tried to tell him to "F*** off" two times before shouting in anger as he shoves him up against the fence and threatens to kill him unless he leaves him alone. This causes Jed to go into a huge emotional breakdown in the middle of the public shouting wildly "You started this, you made this happen. Why don't you admit it? You pretend it's not happening, nothing's happening? YOU F***! Giving me all your secret f***ing signals so that I come towards you! Why don't you leave me alone, eh?! What do you want?! What do you want?!?! I love you! I love you! And now you're trying to f***ing destroy me. GOD ONLY KNOWS WHERE I'D BE WITHOUT YOU!." terrifying the public, teachers, students and young children through his huge emotional breakdown.
That night Joe researches the significance between stalkers and "curtain signals" and discovers he was diagnosed with erotomania (de Clerambault's syndrome), a dangerous disorder that causes the person to believe that someone is in love with him or her and causes the person to stalk them as a result of the disorder on his laptop. He finally concludes that he standing beneath his window every night watches him draw the curtains, thinking that the way they are drawn is a secret message (such as "come and see me", "I love you", or "talk to me") after explaining this to his girlfriend Claire, he looks out of the window and sees Jed sitting in the playground across from his house watching him. He asks his girlfriend Claire to come to the window and look at Jed but she, frustrated, thinking Jed a homeless person, goes back to sleep. Upset over being homeless and kicked out by Claire. He tries to find him at the playground in the middle of a strong rain which he was located two times shouting "WHERE ARE YOU?!", "COME HERE!" and "I'M READY!" but he doesn't shows up which causes Joe to get frustrated he calls Mrs. Logan to give him his address that she got from the police. He enters his disturbing, creepy and horribly apartment and finds photos of him and the hot air balloon site in his disturbing obsession with him. He gives a baseball bat attacking the obsessed photos of him and the hot air balloon site and tries to attack him. He askes him on why he won't leave him replying "we belong together" as he tries to attack him with the baseball bat in violent anger but gives up after he leaves he smack his head to the wall couple of times.
He calls Claire telling her about what had happened then Robin tells Joe after a phone call from Claire tells Joe that "Jed" appeared at their house. Joe gets into his car and rushes to his house and enters his living room to find Jed (in his bathroom robe) and Claire sitting next to each other on the sofa. Jed looks as if he has been beaten up and falsely blames Joe. Claire appears to believe Jed's story. Joe loses his temper and then out of the blue as he exits, Jed stabs Claire with a kitchen knife and she falls to the floor, bleeding profusely. Joe then pretends to accept Jed into his life and they kiss. As they kiss, Joe grabs hold of the knife from Jed and stabs him. Jed falls to the floor, while Joe rushes to Claire's aid and phones an ambulance.
In the post-credits scene, Jed survived from a knife attack, and is shown in a mental institution and appears to be obsessively writing a letter to someone else or to Joe. As he looks up at the camera in a fourth wall look and smiles as the end credits roll.
Appearance[]
Jed has long, blonde hair and light blue eyes. Throughout the film, he is seen wearing a messy suit or equally washed up clothes. Later in the film. he is seen wearing Joe's blue bathrobe during the film's final climax.
Personality[]
Jed first appears as a kind, religious man, but through the events of the film, he starts to stalk Joe for his disturbing obsession over him as the audience learns he was diagnosed with Erotomania (de Clerambault's syndrome). Jed also has an aggressive side to him.
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- The controversial portrayal of Jed's sexuality as he stalks and tries to fall in love with Joe as he was diagnosed with erotomania caused some serious outcry from LGBT activists who criticized the film and book's portrayal of both erotomania and homosexuality.