Is Vera Keyes supposed to be Vera lynn?
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It's a name coincidence methinks. Beyond the name and that both sing there aren't any connections that I see. And Keyes was an actress not a singer. She only sang like two songs total that we know of and one was "Begin Again" which Sinclair commissioned from his obsession with her that made him make the Sierra Madre revolve around her.
On the topic of Vera Keyes I have always been fascinated by her character. She perfectly personifies the old world in the desire of post-war culture to know more of the past, putting it on a pedestal as perfect but in reality it's a rotten fruit but then you realize by no fault of its own because post-war or pre-war; people are people.
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On the topic of Vera Keyes I have always been fascinated by her character. She perfectly personifies the old world in the desire of post-war culture to know more of the past, putting it on a pedestal as perfect but in reality it's a rotten fruit but then you realize by no fault of its own because post-war or pre-war; people are people.
God I love Dead Money.
It's amazing that Vera Lynn is still going. Her last single was released 10 years ago and hit #1 in the UK. She's 102 now.
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I would say she's meant to be thematically reminiscent. Vera Lynn most likely exists in the Fallout world, but she was long long long dead before the Great War era.
But in general, Vera Lynn as a figure in the modern world is basically an icon of Greatest Generation nostalgia. We'll Meet Again is probably the most iconic song from that era of history next to Moonlight Serenade. Vera Lynn is a classical, beautiful starlet from a bygone and massively nostalgically revered/glorified era and she stands as one of its icons.
Vera Keyes is basically the same but for the Pre-War era in Fallout. The name "Vera" is very old world-y in real life, it's not a name you see around anymore and I'd wager it's most associated with Lynn. So thematically Vera Keyes is meant to be a nostalgic, classical starlet from a bygone era. Sinclair's story is basically him falling in love with the Vera Lynn-esque image of her that obviously didn't really exist (In truth she was a chronically pained prescription drug abuser and would-be conwoman/ thief in partnership with Domino) As was said elsewhere in the thread, ultimately metaphorical to Fallout's Old World in general. You've got this Greatest Generation 40s/50s nostalgia with a dark underbelly.