Julie Looked So 1960's It Wasn't Funny …..
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Far from the Madding Crowd
d.doherty — 14 years ago(February 06, 2012 12:49 AM)
. and when they would cut back from Terrence Stamp to Julie why was she in such soft focus? It reminded me of al the jokes about the cuts between Cybil Shephard and Bruce Willis in the TV series, "Moonlighting".
Julie had blue eye shadow and a ridiculously 60's 'do. When the filmmakers went to all the trouble of filming in Dorset, etc., why did they let Julie look like some Carnaby Street "bird"?
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franzkabuki — 14 years ago(February 18, 2012 09:29 AM)
Yeah whatever. The bigger problem than the hairdo, however, was her performance - not outright bad, but without a doubt the weakest of the 4 leads by far. She always remained a blandish, superficial cipher, like a vacuum or a black hole around which Bates, Finch & Stamp were circling (and the latter two eventually fell in).
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steshot — 10 years ago(February 25, 2016 09:30 AM)
I just watched this movie today on TCM, and I was very distracted by Julie Christie's lips. She has thick lips anyway, but what I determined was bothersome was the lipstick so pale, it was close to white. Very unnatural-looking, and that's a 60's thing, right? Women have been using makeup for ages, but I believe lipstick was always a red or rosy color; not until the sixties did that pale frosted look start to appear.
Once you zero in on that, you start noticing how all the other characters around her, men and women, have normal-colored lips. And then you can't stop observing Julie's face those gorgeously blue eyes and those thick lips as if in the grip of death. -
gioconda91423 — 9 years ago(June 09, 2016 07:44 PM)
Y'all are crazy.
Julie Christie was absolutely breathtaking in this movie & gave a great performance.
in this period of her career she was literally the "it" girl.
I saw her in an ice cream parlor w/Warren Beatty in L.A. Of course everyone tried to be too cool to care but Lord,
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london777 — 9 years ago(August 28, 2016 03:18 PM)
It is a bit like Sean Connery as James Bond. You could reason he is totally unsuited to the part, and quite unlike Bond in the novels, and logically you would be correct. But he made the part his own and will always be the definitive Bond.
Yes, Christie is badly cast (and IMHO her acting is the weakest of the four leads as well) but she will always be the definitive Bathsheba, no matter how many new versions are filmed, despite looking more suited to Carnaby Street than Casterbridge.