Who else prefers Cruel Intentions?
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talldarkstranger27 — 19 years ago(February 07, 2007 02:48 PM)
Ignoring the unthoughtout generic response above - I have another flaw in the film that bothered me. Glenn Close does give a brilliant performance as Merteuil. But I don't think she's attractive enough to make the character completley convincing. Merteuil should be beautiful, and therefore have men in the palm of her hand. Her sexuality and physical appearance are her tools of manipulation, and Glenn Close is rather plain. Sarah Michelle Gellar on the other hand is stunning.
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talldarkstranger27 — 19 years ago(February 12, 2007 05:19 PM)
I completley agree that they are indeed masters of manipulation, and I think this is the reason why John Malkovitch can get away with not being particularly handsome. But men, especially in these old, unequal times, were very shallow when it came to females. That is one of the motivations to Merteuil's character. Gellar can get away with playing the pretty and innocent "Mary Sunshine" and uses this to wrap men around her finger.
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sambrolan_gee — 19 years ago(February 08, 2007 10:15 AM)
Do forgive me for making a joke- I didn't realise you had to be serious in this board all the time. Just giving my opinion like you.
She doesn't have to be beautiful to be sexually attractive. She's sophisticated, cunning, deceptive, mysterious, influential and simply oozes confidence and charm, with her older-woman worldliness, experience and wisdom as the cherry on top. Most men find qualities such as these very attractive and appealing, well, perhaps apart from the cunning and deceptive part. Physical appearance isn't absolutely everything. She is indeed a pretty girl, but her character lacks the substance and depth of Merteuil. And Glenn Close gives a first class performance. For some reason to me her portrayal is just that bit more human than Sarah Michelle Gellar's.
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talldarkstranger27 — 19 years ago(February 12, 2007 05:13 PM)
I think they both give great performances. I find Gellar completley believeable, I know girls liek her (although obviously not to that extreme). Her use of eye rolls and mutterances under her breath give her that extra human dimension and make us realise that although highly intelligent, she is still just a teenage girl, playing at being a woman.
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spyfoxforever — 19 years ago(February 18, 2007 10:19 AM)
I, being he youngin' that I am, saw Cruel Intentions and at the time I thought it was the best thing since slicwed bread, but then I saw Dangerous Liasons and I was blown away. I love Glenn Close's performance and It's definetly one of my favorite films ever.
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Skipp10467 — 19 years ago(February 21, 2007 10:46 PM)
off course it's politcally correct to like the original "tradtionally accepted as better" verson and not the "commercial" Hollywood" version cuz dangerous liasons was not commercial at ALL!!!
thats sarcasm
Cruel Intentions IMO had its merits but u have to give Dangerous Liasons its due. It WAS the reason why cruel intentions had soo much of its satrical dark humor. I personally like both, but i like CI more.
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Uh_Oh_You_Too — 15 years ago(October 11, 2010 04:56 PM)
I happen to think most of the men found her attractive because she was a very very rich widow during political and economic hard times (the brink of the French revolution). She would have been a good sugar mama.
Also, it looks to me that the casting directors were looking through paintings and other artwork of the period, as well as acting ability when casting the Marquise de Merteuil. Glenn Close looks like what 18th century Europe considered beautiful a woman with long cheeks on the plump side, a small mouth, a rounded forehead and chin, and a long straight nose (the more aquiline, the better). Nowadays, we'd put that 18th century beauty on the lemonade diet, get her cheeks liposuctioned and stuffed with fake knife-hilt cheekbones, inject her lips with collagen, put her through jaw surgery to straighten her chin, and whittle her nose to a third of its original sizeunless it was truly aquiline, then it would be a fourth! -
khmmo — 17 years ago(November 07, 2008 10:06 PM)
She is a women of a certain age wich is high desitd and respected in french culture. She is at her peak. look at eht eFirst lady of france or denuave(sp) or any of the other french greats, they were not anororexic 15 yr olds
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AdriCraw — 19 years ago(February 22, 2007 02:56 AM)
My favourite version of the story is Valmont!
http://www.imdb.com/board/10098575/
. Mmmmm, Colin Firth!
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mit800 — 18 years ago(April 26, 2007 07:30 PM)
Cruel Intentions was the high school version of the story. While Ryann Phillipe had some good moments and there was some fun nudity it was still a pre-pubescent-aren
t we naughty-version of the story. Sarah Michelle Gellar can only hope one day to be as good an actress as Glenn Close (or even Annette Benning in VALMONT). Gellar in CI is so totally amateurish that it is almost funny. Sure she is a striking looking young woman (even if a little chipmunk cheeked and nose-jobbed)but she cant begin to compare in acting chops to those who have preceeded her in the part.
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rh86 — 18 years ago(April 29, 2007 11:10 AM)
Cruel Intentions is good but Dangerous Liasons has the edge. Glenn Close is far superior to Sarah Michelle Gellar, plus their motivations are different. In Cruel Intentions its just a game for Kathryn while for Isabelle de Merteuil it is her method of survival.
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damnyouvilewoman15 — 18 years ago(May 10, 2007 09:16 AM)
OBVIOUSLYthe yougner generation would find CI better because we were bought up around itNow i actually haven't seen DLbut knowing me. I wopuld still like cI much betterI'm only 15and i jsut boguth CI cos i heard it was goodand i loved it.My mum has seen DL.we each want to see the other movieit's quiet funny actually But older generations would appreciate DL because it's was made for that age group.but then there are some others who love different ones.
I'm only saying all of this out of experience