'Dirty Girls'
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Here's the exact quote, by Anthony Lane:
All of which leaves Natalie Portman and Clive Owen to carry the show. Portman is becoming hard to cast: her beauty is by now so extreme that its sole purpose is the feeding of obsession. (George Lucas loads her with silly costumes and puddles of makeup, as if to wish the beauty away, to stop it from throwing his sexless galaxy out of whack.)
They just don't like her?
Since Gellar portrays the title character, the show obviously rests heavily on her diminutive shoulders, and she has inhabited it for six seasons with grace, humour, vulnerability, wit, confidence, and ass-kicking ferocity.
Gellar's audit is also from two and a half years ago. It's a snapshot, not a tracking poll.
I like Beautiful Girls far more than I should. It is completely a guilty pleasure.
It's a good movie, that. I don't think it's guilty pleasure material.
Portman is becoming hard to cast: her beauty is by now so extreme that its sole purpose is the feeding of obsession
Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Connelly seem to have survived.
I do find Natalie's beauty distracting. Never thought Nicole was that powerfully beautiful, and Jennifer Connelly has taken a remedy of her own.
I do understand the sentiment. To a degree, Jude Law better be a good actor, otherwise I just go into a fugue state.
Portman is becoming hard to cast: her beauty is by now so extreme that its sole purpose is the feeding of obsession
It's true that she is so beautiful right now that it can take you out of the moment when you are watching a movie. She tilts her head in a certain way and you sit there thinking "She's sooo beautiful!" while the dialog goes on without you.
Also smart. And a Psych major. And . . .
the dialog goes on without you
Yes, this. I admit, I'm visually impressionable, but Natalie has to be either pretty good or pretty bad to get me to pay attention.
True--but that's true of all really attractive performers. Or performers having a good hair day--Hell, there were moments in the Elizabethan Blackadder where I was just struck by the hawtness of Rowan Atkinson and taken right out of the show.
Hell, there were moments in the Elizabethan Blackadder where I was just struck by the hawtmess of Rowan Atkinson and taken right out of the show.
Well, he was on the top of his looks game in Black Adder II.
(So was Miranda Richardson, for that matter.)
that's true of all really attractive performers
Not really, for me. I mean, tons of them are really attractive -- but not all of them have my mental angels singing hosanna. Natalie Portman has always set off my heavenly choir, even though I think there are more attractive women out there. It's just something about the character of her beauty. Same with Jude.