Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
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That agreement problem.
Is that still considered a problem? I thought the pendulum had swung back to acceptable.
I'm going to keep using it until someone comes up with something better.
Oh, the article makes the movie sound disturbingly not like the book. I guess it makes a better article if you interview the people who're unhealthily attached to the work, but I'd be more sympathetic to the plight of balanced people than that.
I don't think I would get that invested...though I have been known to growl "WRONG!" at certain licenses taken by comic book movies.
Speaking of, Miracleman, have you seen these? You really, really need to. Start from the beginning. They're fucking hilarious.
Holy cow, that was Clive Owen as Sir Walter Raleigh?!? No wonder...
One heart-broken reader of the original books reported that upon watching the trailer, a part of them died.
I started crying. In the movie theater. It was pretty traumatizing. I think that the hyperbole is actually a pretty common one, too.
ETA: For fear of seeming too crazy, it didn't make me so sad that I failed to enjoy the movie. But those books were very important to me as a child, and seeing it so screwed up makes me hurt internally.
those books were very important to me as a child, and seeing it so screwed up makes me hurt internally.
Yes. This.
I guess I'm not that attached to any story. If they messed up an adaptation of something dear to my heart I'd cling more tightly to the original, but as long as that doesn't go away I wouldn't be more than disappointed.
It is possible I have no heart to break. That has been previously suggested.
The current contender for Most Beautiful Woman In the World, Aishwaria Ray.
Previous contenders...
Catherine Deneuve
Halle Berry
Gong Li
Isabelle Adjani
Ava Gardner
Sophia Loren
Elizabeth Taylor
Hedy Lamar
Your vote?
I'll cast a vote for Deneuve. Not for Halle, because although I can't find anything wrong with her at all, my eye doesn't really catch on her.
Now I have to go flip through my venus pictures.
Damn you, Hec.
In your list I pick Gong Li. Hott.
In your list I pick Gong Li. Hott.
Me, too.