Xander ,'Touched'
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She's too raw-boned.
She's also quite a bit too skinny to be a proper 40s siren, no? Need something to fill out that bullet bra, and the idealized cheekbone did not have a hollow below it in those days.
I don't know a thing about her acting, but her looks are very distinctive, and not in any of the several "classic Hollywood" ways.
She looks like she's packing a C -- how big do you need to be for a siren? Given padding technology too?
Anyone watch Their Eyes Were Watching God last night?
The thing with Swank is, she's very good at the kind of role she does (downtrodden but strong-willed) but I don't think she has much of a range.
I'd tend to agree. In anything else, she's more wooden than a lumberyard.
She was great in Beverly Hills 90210. Where she, in fact, played a downtrodden-but-strong-willed single mom who managed to make a living on the Peach Pit's waitress salary.
She's playing a period siren with Scarlett Johansson?
Oooh. If there's a catfight between those two, I'd totally watch. Johansson would try to scratch Swank's eyes out, then Swank could just scoff in derison and punch her face in.
I initially read the title as "Blue Dahlia" and thought they were remaking the Veronica Lake/Alan Ladd pic. Whew.
how big do you need to be for a siren? Given padding technology too?
I guess I'm not talking specifically about breasts, which, yes, can be faked up. But the 40s pinups tended to be hale (petite, usually, but hale) and quite a bit rounder than the current bony standard. The real trouble is that the roundness wasn't strict musculature, either, which, I'm sure there are female Russell Crowes on this earth, willing to change their bodies away from the beauty standard for art -- but I have my doubts.
The weird part? I've read that novel. (It's not that great, but given it's an Ellroy novel, it will be adapted within an inch of its life if it has any chance of being 2 hours long.)
I'm sure there are female Russell Crowes on this earth, willing to change their bodies away from the beauty standard for art
Well, she's already done that for M$B, hasn't she? But yeah -- the Crow/Clooney/Diesel effort seems to be mainly matched in women by them not wearing as much foundation.
Is the book (and I would presume, the movie) based pretty closely on the actual case? I remember reading about the murder back in high school, when I was on my true-crime book obsession, and thought it was really interesting.
Also, Brian De Palma hasn't had a hit since... what, The Untouchables? Josh Hartnett is not someone I'd refer to as a leading-man material either.
On a different note, while watching Deadwood last night, I caught a preview for a series HBO is set to air in summer called "Rome", [link] which is supposed to chronicle the last days of Julius Caesar's reign (with the usual HBO-riffic bounty of sex and violence.) There appeared to be some interesting actors on the cast, e.g. Ciaran Hinds, James Purefoy, and Lindsay Duncan.
