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[truepenny]

This is the Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close). Also Galadriel. Although I love the Jackson movies (sorry, papersky), and although I deeply admire Cate Blanchett, I have never been able to get behind that particular casting choice. In a weird, sideways, C18 French way, Close's Marquise is much closer to my image of Galadriel than Blanchett will ever be.

Also I like the fact that "All shall love me and despair" is a line that can be applied equally well to either of them.

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[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I can forgive her much--but not all--for doing the prologue to Fellowship so beautifully. But I do just get dumped flat out of the story on my ass every time they do a close-up of her. She looks, as Raymond Chandler says, like the Ice Maiden after a hard night out with the fishing fleet, and her mouth, aside from being asymetrical (as is Glenn Close's) is just WRONG. *ahem* Not that I'm opinionated or anything.

[slithytove.livejournal.com]

Agreed. "Beautiful and terrible as the morning and the night" is not Blanchett. Elves aren't ethereal. They're Wagnerian.

Yes!

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

She had no edge about her, and it distracted me. I wanted some sense of danger and of years beyond knowing.

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Les liaison dangereuses was the first book I ever read in French. I was still learning the language at the time, so I know I missed a lot of it -- plus, in order to get the paper required done in time, I ended up reading the play....

I always loved that movie, though. Not so much Valmont.

And I agree about Cate Blanchett, though I am unable to come up with anyone more appropriate. I am leaning toward Michelle Pfeiffer, though, possibly because of her stint as Titania.

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

I can't say that she struck me as stoned but the depiction was a disjoint, most strongly for me in the mirror sequence. I had a similar reaction to Berry's Storm; but tbh I'm trying to think of really good depictions of powerful women who are not villians and not coming up with much. Some of that may be my own twitch as I tend to perceive the general issue of women and power as still very much a cultural issue.

[vass]

Cate Blanchett struck me as wooden.

"I am. Galadriel. Of Borg. I will assimiliate your ring, Frodo."

[bibliotrope.livejournal.com]

Did you see last week's episode of The West Wing? Close is the nominee for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in their universe! (I think I want to move to their universe.)