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.
My whole life, I've never loved anything else.
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Juliebird - Aug 22, 2009 7:36:23 pm PDT #3846 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
§ ita § - Aug 22, 2009 8:20:08 pm PDT #3847 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Pfeiffer's definitely got the looks and the chops. I think Biel's pretty, but I can't see her pulling it off.
Typo Boy - Aug 22, 2009 8:22:35 pm PDT #3848 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
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.
Sue - Aug 23, 2009 4:17:57 am PDT #3849 of 30000
hip deep in pie
I don't get Jessica Biel as beautiful. I think she is pretty, but very plain.
Juliebird - Aug 23, 2009 5:10:11 am PDT #3850 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I think the plainness is one of the things I like. That and the odd bone structure that's kind of Native American.
flea - Aug 23, 2009 5:11:13 am PDT #3851 of 30000
information libertarian
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.
JZ - Aug 23, 2009 5:40:10 am PDT #3852 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
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?
Connie Neil - Aug 23, 2009 5:46:43 am PDT #3853 of 30000
brillig
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.
Amy - Aug 23, 2009 5:49:27 am PDT #3854 of 30000
Because books.
MBWE candidates for me would be: Catherine Deneuve, young Elizabeth Taylor, and Natalie Portman. I think she's going to be beautiful pretty much forever. Crap, I forgot Grace Kelly.
I'm trying to imagine someone else playing Buttercup, and I just can't come up with anyone who would have done it better. Robin Wright nailed it for me, as well as Cary Elwes and the rest of the cast.
Speaking of movies that could stand being remade, though, I just caught Grease on TV the other night. I loved it as a kid, and it's still a sentimental favorite, but it would be interesting to see it remade with *actual teenagers* this time. I adore Stockard Channing, but I watch it now and can't get past the fact that she was, like, thirty or something.
billytea - Aug 23, 2009 5:54:21 am PDT #3855 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
My choice for MBWE: [link]