Fay Wray's body language in this movie
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Most Dangerous Game
perfectpawn — 16 years ago(September 23, 2009 10:38 PM)
Just watched this again and couldn't help but notice that Fay Wray's body language is all out of whack with the narrative in her scenes with Joel McCrea. Watch the movie again and pay attention to this: you'll notice that in scenes in which she should be portraying terror she's instead basically undressing McCrea with her eyes and undulating before him.
Some examples:
The infamous "I didn't realize the DANGER" sequence where she spills the drink to get McCrea's attention. Watch how she langorously rolls herself toward him before spilling the drink, and how she keeps inching closer to him. Her body movements are much more "I want you" than "beware of the danger here."
When the hunt begins and McCrea's tied up in that girdle thing, watch Fay Wray as he's being unhitched from it. She's getting close to him and ruffling her hair and her entire body's bouncing with a sort of eagerness to get closer to him. Again, there's no hint of a "we need to RUN" sort of a feelingit's more like "let's go behind those bushes!"
There are many more examples, these are just two of them. I know Wray was married at the time but if you watch this film again with this in mind, you'll notice it yourself. I'm NOT crazy! -
Squonkamatic — 16 years ago(November 15, 2009 09:14 PM)
Eve was definitely on the prowl for a man. Zarkov was too creepy with that dead half a face of his, the servants were all mutes, and her brother was her brother. Along comes Joel McBeefcake and yeah, she was ready to go savage all right. She's actually pretty hot in this movie too, where I've sat through King Kong dozens of times and have never though about her in those terms before.
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richard-III — 13 years ago(November 03, 2012 05:58 PM)
Ooh, maybe that's why I love her so much! She's wonderful in every film of that time: King Kong, Doctor X, Most Dangerous Game, The Clairvoyant One hot lady. Erich von Stroheim knew what he wanted when he did cast her as his 'Mitzi'.
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