Did anyone else think Anna Scott was a bi-atch?
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BlueisBlue — 15 years ago(January 18, 2011 07:54 PM)
Palletizer,
I agree with your assessment of Anna Scott. I think Julia portrayed her character accurately. She is a famous person who is used to mobs of people harassing her and paparazzi attacking her.
I also think she was intrigued by William because he was not "one of the mob" (and he was cute). -
JaysonT — 15 years ago(March 25, 2011 10:34 AM)
I have to disagree with the OP. It's true Anna Scott came off a bit reserved and cold, but you have to remember the module for the film: She is the most famous actress in the WORLD. She's used to media, cameras, dumb questions, annoying autograph hounds (the thief), misconceptions. She is smitten with Will the first time she see's him, but he's smalltown bookstore owner vs. Oscar winner megastar. Plus it's London. They rave for gossip there just like America.
In a way, Will's character is also a unique study. He's gentle but he's also prudish and a bit conservative. The two are sweet together but it's a great script because it escalates the romantic tension. -
chloed1989-1-449816 — 14 years ago(May 18, 2011 02:45 PM)
I was going to agree with JaysonT I thought the OP is taking her character at just face value instead of thinking perhaps she was protecting herself, shy and wary of all the attention of fans as she should be as you see later when the paparazzi show up in front of Will's flat. But then later she screams at Will, very uncalled for and bitchy so maybe to a degree OP was right but JaysonT is right as well.
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tightspotkilo — 14 years ago(February 13, 2012 04:59 AM)
Of course she's got a whole lot of "bi-atch" in her. Dude. That's part of the point. She's a rich world-famous actress who had compromised all of her values and and sacrificed her personal happiness for fame and fortune, and what did all that get her? Fame and fortune, yes, but no happiness. So she meets William Thacker and it awakens her to what she is missing.
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dynamite6000 — 14 years ago(March 14, 2012 11:03 PM)
totally agree! I was watching the movie just now and came to see if anyone else thought that too. It seemed to me like she was bored and depressed so she used Hugh Grantshe didn't even tell him she had a boyfriend and she just goes out with him etc. It seemed like she was flattered by the smitten expression he had and his over the top nice gentleman attitude. And then she sleeps with him (which she was begging for) and then blows him off accusing him of trying to sell to the press. What a bitch! If this movie was about a famous guy doing this to a regular girl it would seem like he was taking advantage of her but its somehow ok that a woman does that? O.o
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spook67-8-348089 — 13 years ago(June 02, 2012 09:16 PM)
- When she's in his flat, saying "no" to every question he asks, the look she's giving him is so bitchy.
- She invites him to her suite while she's doing magazine interviews and doesn't even tell him. So basically, he can come see her, but he only gets the 5 minutes everyone else does.
3.She was going on dates with this guy all while having a boyfriend. He finds out about the boyfriend on accident. She offers no explanation for this and just lets Will go home sad and lonely. - I think we all agree that her reaction to the paparazzi incident was way over the top.
All this was before they stopped seeing each other. She was extremely inconsiderate. Then she comes back and this guy actually wants to be with her. I couldn't believe it. It's one of the main problems with films like this. Women get it in their heads that they can treat men like crap and then come around when they're ready, and the men will drop everything to be with them.
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bruce-toms — 13 years ago(June 11, 2012 04:48 PM)
Agreed, Julia Roberts was terrible in this film. Pretty much ruined it for me. A movie star playing a movie star, and failing miserably. The director was at fault for that too I suppose. The rest of the cast was good, though.
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ShannonTriumphant — 13 years ago(December 19, 2012 05:26 PM)
Just watched the film today, on AMC! It seems that nobody buys the DVDthey catch it on the telly when there's nothing better to do!
I think that Anna is definitely and probably became a b*tch and a snob due to her celebritypeople idolizing her. But other celebs don't all do that. She SEEMS shy at the party with William's sister and friends, but is she really shy, or just aloof and boring? Liberalmedia said it best, that she made no effort to sustain a conversation and had NO personality, other than to quote Rita Hayworth after sex with Will, comparing herself to Gildaas IF!!
Many celebrities are actually quite boring in interviews because they live withing "the Business" and that's it. Those who profit from megastardom are often the least aware, introspective people. They don't think how their actions affect others. Anna certainly wasn't shy when she told Will off and insulted him for the paparazzi showing up, though it wasn't his fault.
Also, when she tells poor Hugh Bonneville, the stockbroker, that she just made $15 million on her last picture, that's hardly "shy". He's trying to be nice and she brags, humiliating him. Something in her makes her selfish and even cruelthat scene when she tells William off, was so awful: Criticizing his clothes and even trashing his bookstore, saying "Come buy a book from the guy who slept with Anna Scott"BADLY done, to quote Mr. Knightly's words to Emma (though Anna should ASPIRE to be a clueless young ingenue with a big mouth! She's older and thus, much worse. She is so full of herself.
Then there's the scene on the film set, telling the actor that Will, "that guy" is "nothing", and he hears it on the headphonesnasty! I was so glad when he tells her about that latershe shock and embarrassment on her face was priceless, and well-deserved.
Even the (apparently) beloved line, "I'm just a girl" blah, blah, blahis nothing but what is known in Hollywood as "movie talk". Carrie Fisher, famed screenwriter, knew it, putting into Meryl Streep's character's rage at Dennis Quaid's cheating loverboy, in "Postcards from the Edge", and a couple other scenes, during which her mother, also an actress, uses "movie talk" to handle real-life arguments. Film actors know how to lift quotes to insert into real situations, and this is all Anna is doing.
And why does she wait until she has tossed Hugh aside, raged at him and humiliated him to come and be nice? And yes, Julia was playing herself, as usual. Her most "moving" scene was when she describes her "sad" life at the dinner, saying that her "Looks will go and she'll be a middle aged woman who can't act". BINGO! Ever see "Eat, Pray, Love"? How prophetic!
The scene in the shop, when she shows up with an original painting as a gift, just reeks of her trying to buy him off, probably the usual way she deals with people after insulting them! I, like several other here, was rooting for Will to drop her completely. The scene was spectacular and should have ended there, or with a lonely, shallow actress flying back to her "great" life.
But NO! That final chase and the news conference was wasted in this film, and if they ever do a remake of "Roman Holiday", should be put into [SPOILER?] the Audrey Hepburn character's news conference after her fling with Gregory Peck (who really IS a journalist!), telling everyone she loves him rather than just waving good-bye.
I think that the premise in "Notting Hill" also was: this is (as one character sayswas it Spike?) a "Goddess", and that Will is nuts not to put up with ANYTHING to be with her. Yet he has too much self-respect to do that. That's why the final scene does not "play" at all. It's not believable. If he were a total doormat, then maybe, but not given the character he is. To quote "Comic book Guy": Worst Ending Ever.
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Danusha_Goska — 10 years ago(February 01, 2016 05:05 PM)
Spook 67 spoke for me.
I hate this woman and if Will were my friend I'd tell him to screw her but just because he wants to and can, but not to lose his heart to her, because she's a narcissist and will always hurt him. Can't be trusted.
http://www.amazon.com/Save-Send-Delete-Danusha-Goska/dp/1846949866 -
huwdj — 13 years ago(March 31, 2013 04:30 PM)
Nope, absolutely not. I'm astonished at the number of people in this thread who seem to think she is. As I see it Anna Scott is the worlds most famous actress and subject to intrusive press scrutiny at all times. Every mistake she has ever made is endlessly recycled for the titillation of the feeble minded and she has to be constantly on her guard to try and protect what little privacy she has. She finds herself in love with a
normal
guy with
normal
friends and quite bravely opens up to them at the dinner party. Let's not forget that at the end she comes looking for William Thacker and he is the one who initially refuses or as I see it - bottles it.
I don't want to over think this response to what is after all, just a film. But I'm wondering how many contributors above live in the UK with our, quite frankly, contemptible tabloid press. -
Redart27 — 12 years ago(March 01, 2014 07:29 AM)
She's awful! Self-absorbed, mean. She doesn't call him for months. She lets him wait around for her all the time. She was disgusting in the scene in his apartment with paparazzi outside. I think she belonged with the Alec Baldwin character. William should have followed up on his blind date with the Emily Mortimer character - who looked adorable in this film. It would have made a better ending. He tells movie diva Anna to take a hike, and falls for the normal gal.
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LukeLovesFilm28 — 12 years ago(March 13, 2014 03:04 PM)
If you listen to her dialogue, pay attention to Anna's reasons, it's pretty clear why she did some of the things she did. But, I have to admit, if I was William, I would've been hurt and very resentful.
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Lester_Burnham_Risen — 12 years ago(March 13, 2014 05:51 PM)
yes, as they both knew, she had ALL of the "power" in determining if there was going to be a relationship.
in the end she had cried wolf too many times and he simply said his heart could not take any more turndowns, but he was not to know that she had "purged herself" of her "american ways" in the meanwhile.
so we got the climax where he then realizes [with the help of his friends] that she WAS sincere.
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