Xander ,'Storyteller'
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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.
I don't get Jessica Biel as beautiful. I think she is pretty, but very plain.
I think the plainness is one of the things I like. That and the odd bone structure that's kind of Native American.
My vote for Most Beautiful Woman Ever goes to Isabelle Adjani (though she'd be all wrong in Princess Bride). She was 40 in the (not good) La Reine Margot, and looked about 15.
My MBWE candidates: Audrey Hepburn, Gene Tierney, Elizabeth Taylor circa A Place In The Sun.
Audrey would have made a great Buttercup, because Audrey made a great everything, but if it had been made in her youth who on earth could have been Westley?
My vote for Most Beautiful Woman Ever
Catherine Deneuve will always get my vote. I do have a new contender, though, Carmen Dell'Orefice, #3 in this list ( [link] ). She's 78, and I saw a photo of her in a magazine this year and she was stunning.
