Perfect: Kelly LeBrock in Weird Science - hot, saucy, and authoritative.
Wrong: Jessica Alba as Sue Storm in the *Fantastic Four *movies. Alba looked distractingly strange with the blue contacts.
Wrong: Jessica Alba as Nancy in Sin City. She looks plenty hot, but she plays a stripper who doesn’t strip! In the comic, Nancy’s topless cowgirl routine was one of the more memorable sequences. The movie slavishly recreates the comic book imagery in live action, but they have to compromise here because they hired an actress who wouldn’t take her top off.
(I have nothing against Alba. She’s not a great actress, but she’s beautiful and likeable enough in the right role.)
I’m quoting from memory, so it’s not exact, but the opening words of the book go something like this:
“Scarlett O’Hara was not a beautiful woman, but men seldomed noticed that when they were as taken with her as the Tarleton twins were.”
I think Scarlett was supposed to be more vivacious than drop-dead gorgeous, but I have absolutely no complaints about the casting of Vivien Leigh in that movie!
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OK, just googled the actual opening line: “Scarlet O’hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.”
Scarlett Johanson in…umm…anything*. That woman is pure, unadulterated, beauty. I’d pay to see a movie that was just a close up of her face for two hours
*Well, I guess if the script called for an uggo, she wouldn’t fit…but then again, look at Charlize Theron in “Monster.”
I’m not loving the “petite”, though. She looks frail and wasp-waisted: not so much someone who needs to be forcefully laced into a corset, more like someone who’d get walloped by the decidedly healthier-looking Melanie. (I mean, Olivia de Havilland is still up and around! What the hell kind of epic miscasting was that? )
This is kind of silly. Bronze age Greeks were barbarian invaders that probably would have looked more like a modern German or Russian than a modern Greek. I agree about Kruger though. My first thought when I saw her was, “1000 ships? No way! 50…60 ships tops.”
If you want to talk about somebody breathtaking, how about Barbara Carrera the way she looked when I first saw her in Masada.
Just because she’s beautiful doesn’t mean she can’t look bad or take a bad photograph, which the two “candids” are - but the coloring is there in all the pictures, the worst thing is the overplucked eyebrows.
Hussey… yeah, I’d say we have a winner there. Perfection. And Juliet needs to be perfection, since she’s a whiny little narcissistic bitch Romeo can only fall for her looks.
No, I didn’t “prove your point”. You claimed she was not wearing makeup and that her beauty is all natural. Did you happen to notice that her eyebrows are also darkened in your linked photo, and her eyes are rimmed by black eyeliner and darkened lashes?
It’s remarkable to see how often people can quote someone else’s actual words, then claim the words say something they didn’t say, and completely ignore key things that the words did say.
And you did prove my point. You posted pictures that are clearly labeled “no makeup” - her coloring is excellent, and she is beautiful, even though the lighting is brutal, her hair is sloppy, and she has a goofy expression.
Since this has been revived, I’ll mention one that’s not exactly in the same line as others in this thread, but it was a crucial part of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Turns out (IMHO) Anna Popplewell and Georgie Henley were brilliant choices for Susan and Lucy Pevensie.
In the movie, there’s a part where Lucy is jealous of how pretty Susan is, and wishes she could look like her. And Anna Popplewell is indeed rather pretty, especially in a conventional way. In the movie, Aslan appears and tells Lucy to be herself and accept herself as she is (which she demonstrates she’s learned when she tells another girl the same). Now, in my opinion, Georgie Henley is an exceptionally pretty girl herself, but not in the same way. She’ll easily be just as attractive as Ms. Popplewell when she reaches that age, but in an entirely different way. So it’s very believable that she would be jealous of exactly those qualities in Susan she thinks she lacks, while being blind to her own best features.
Not only that, but I felt all the children were well-cast from the start for their characters. Someone in the early part of this thread mentioned Tilda Swinton as the White Witch, who was another perfect choice, at least as a cold and domineering temptress.
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