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And Buttercup needed to be played by a much more beautiful actress.
Man, I think Robin Wright was (and still is, really) breathtakingly beautiful. And she got the vapid just right too. I'd have tweaked the production values on the movie, if anything, but I love it just as is.
I'm with ita. I have no problems with Robin Wright.
Hmmm...There is, in my head, a distinct difference between book Buttercup and Movie Buttercup. It's not something that I can put my finger on, though.
I think, to me, the movie softens the edges of all the characters a bit, which makes sense, with the shortage of backstory on them (goes with the territory) and that it's more of a fairy tale than the book. I don't know that I love either less, but they're definitely different.
I think my recasting of Buttercup has nothing to do with RW and more to do with the description of book Buttercup, and that's a pretty high fricking standard. I saw the movie first, and she didn't bother me. But ever since I read the book, The Most Beautiful Woman EVER is always in the back of my brain, and RW is not my cuppa. Almost but not quite how Jen Garner is quite fugly to me.
The Most Beautiful Woman EVER is always in the back of my brain
Who would you have cast in her place? I think she has a remoteness that I think is applicable to Most Beautiful Woman EVER even if I can't decide who wears that crown.
The movie is one of my favourite book adaptations ever, because of precisely what it left out--so much, but somehow still telling the same story.
Who would you have cast in her place?
I don't think I could even begin to answer that question. Not off the top of my head. If only because I can't think of who was around at that time. And also because who knows what unknowns were around at that time with the looks and the chops.
Well, if you're remaking the movie is there any one you'd pick from the here and now? I'm interested in how she looks to you.
No one is more beautiful than a young Michele Pfeiffer. And, I know you hate, but Jessica Biel has that otherly beauty that is so not the norm for Hollywood beauty.
But that's not to say that's how she looks in my head when reading the book.
Pfeiffer's definitely got the looks and the chops. I think Biel's pretty, but I can't see her pulling it off.
Alternate game: great scenes from awful or mediocre movies.
My example: Opening of "Cutthroat Island" the scene that ends with the line "I have your balls" and Geena Davis strutting away with a monkey on her shoulder.