Zoe ,'War Stories'
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Nope, it's not KST who clobbers Hugh in 4Ws&aF. She plays the stalwart best friend who never catches his fancy.
Anna Chancellor plays the whiney ex-girlfriend, "Hen"rietta, whom Hugh finally agrees to marry.
That movie introduced me to John Hannah-love. Man, he was great.
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Duckface!
Her character was such a wackjob though. In contrast, most guys who get left at the altar by the girls tend to be decent and stodgy sorts.
I'm not sure this counts as a jilt, but what about My Best Friend's Wedding? Julia Roberts's character does not come off well at all.
But then, the only sympathetic main character (Rupert Everett) isn't involved with the wedding at all.
The altar thing comes to mind because I saw Philadelphia Story recently. Not as deft a jilt as It Happened One Night, but I give the chick credit for being broken and only working that out as the wedding loomed -- it was less that she was marrying the wrong guy, and more that she was the wrong bride. But still -- the re-marriage was inevitable because why else cast Cary, but I didn't see it that strong textually.
The altar thing comes to mind because I saw Philadelphia Story recently.
That's funny, because I figured it was because of the endless ads for Runaway Bride that have been playing on whatever channel is about show it.
ita, you should see Ever After. Dougray Scott is hot.
Dougray Scott is hot.
He is that, but I'm still extremely glad that he was so busy filimg MI:2 that he couldn't take the part of Wolverine in X-Men that was offered to him.
I'm not sure this counts as a jilt, but what about My Best Friend's Wedding? Julia Roberts's character does not come off well at all.
The fact that Julia Roberts's character is portrayed as kind of a psycho is my very favorite thing about that movie.
He is that, but I'm still extremely glad that he was so busy filimg MI:2 that he couldn't take the part of Wolverine in X-Men that was offered to him.
Yes. I saw X2 again Friday and was just completely amazed by how well Hugh Jackman made that role his own.
The AFI theater here is having a Johnny Depp fest, so I went to see Dead Man last night. I don't know if Dead Man is one of my favorite movies, but I own it and I watch it periodically because it's interesting and half the movie (the Johnny Depp/Gary Farmer stuff) is incredible. (I actually think it may be JD's best performance, which is saying something.)
It was an interesting experience, because I've never gone to see something in the theater that I've only watched on DVD. I noticed a lot of things that I haven't before, simply because they were louder and much, much bigger on the screen. And, since DVDs make it so easy to skip past the scenes I don't like, being forced to watch the stuff that annoys me was actually a good thing, because I made a lot of connections between the scenes with the bounty hunters and the scenes of growing friendship between GF and JD. Also, watching something with an audience (consisting almost entirely of pretentious movie geeks and teenage JD fans) which I had only ever watched alone was really interesting because people kept laughing at things which I had never noticed were funny and some things which really aren't supposed to be funny. It was a kick.