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.
My choice for MBWE: [link]
Wow. She is totally going on my list, too, billytea.
That guy behind her is no slouch, either. They're going to have beautiful babies.
I'm sitting on the couch with Jessica, waiting for a director's cut of
Idiocracy.
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 cousin did some work on her apartment and said she is absolutely stunning IRL and that even without makeup her skin looks like porcelain.
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.
Angela Basset. But, I have no probelm with RWP and how she played Buttercup. I thought she was awesome.
Rita Hayworth, Simone Simon, Audrey Hepburn, Jaclyn Smith, and Michelle Yeoh would be on my short list for Most Beautiful Woman Ever.
My top pick for remaking would be that painfully bad A Wizard of Earthsea movie SciFi did a few years ago. They could keep Danny Glover as Ogion, but EVERYTHING else must go. I'd probably pick Guillermo del Toro to direct and give Ursula K. LeGuin veto power over every decision.
One of the standard items in the "Watching the Directors" podcast was, which movie would you like this director to remake, or which movie of this director would you like remade? I don't love the couple that did that podcast, but I always thought that was an interesting question.
I wish somebody besides Cronenberg did M. Butterfly.
And I'm a fan of his work. Neil Jordan would've been a better pick. Almost too on the nose considering his long standing fascination with inappropriate love objects.
I love Princess Bride as is.
If I were to interview Quentin Tarantino I would ask him some variation on this question, probably: "How would you recast a classic screwball comedy with French actors from the sixties."
