This is a great call. She RUINED this great con artist primer.
I can’t believe the other cast members didn’t smother her.
I really think that when Molly cleaned her up…she looked like a man
That’s why I said Cage. He plays the same character in every movie, if he’s actually playing a character and not just being himself.
I have trouble understanding what Janet Leigh’s role is in the original Manchurian Candidate. Her character is hard to comprehend.
It’s been a while, but IIRC, her role is that she inadvertently cracks Shaw’s conditioning, at least enough that guilt over her death leads him to kill his mother and stepfather instead of the presidential candidate he was to assassinate
Newt in Aliens.
It’s just like what was said before about kids being in horror movies to just scream and that’s what she’s there for. I guess you could say that there’s the whole surogate daughter development between her and Ripley, but is that really neccesery? Could Ripley have gone against the queen to save a marine or something?
Despite all that, Newt’s not that bad. It could have been a lot worse.
Totally disagree with Newt. Everything builds towards a final interspecies maternal clash, and Newt helps bring us there.
The Wayans brother in Dungeons and Dragons…oh wait…you meant movies that didn’t suck ass.
Also, she has that great line: “Mostly they come at night…Mostly”
That’s not Janet Leigh. Janet Leigh played Frank Sinatra’s sort-of-girlfriend he meets on the train, Eugenie Rose Chaney. You’re talking about the role played by Leslie Parrish, Jocelyn Jordan.
Which is why he made Some Kind of Wonderful apparently. A much better movie in my opinion.
Ian Malcolm’s daughter in Jurassic Park 2. Malcolm was a much more interesting character when his family connections were offscreen, and the kid was just annoying on general principles (whee! let’s do gymnastics on the conveniently located uneven-bar-like beams and kick a velociraptor in the teeth!)
Roger Ebert cited “Somebody’s Law” which states that, when a gymnast is in a movie, sooner or later, she will find a bar.
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I wonder if there are two alternate takes for that line. I remember the ellipsis there, too, but the last time I saw it it was more like “They mostly come at night mostly.” Which makes it ten times more awesome, even though even with the ellipsis it still wasn’t such an “obvious” line, although with the wrong actress or direction it could have been delivered in a really cheesy manner.
Just if there wasn’t a big pause, a comma at the most, between the words, it’s a casual re-emphasis of the type a child would do rather than a mugging deliberately movie-quote-style line.
ETA: because ironically without the ellipsis the emphasis is not on how great the line is but on the “mostly” part, which what makes it so awesome.