What was so wrong with Daryl Hannah's performance?
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Naughty-God — 10 years ago(September 17, 2015 07:34 PM)
She was never a great actress and it could be argued that her only true skill was on the casting couch (offscreen) which would explain her agent's ability to get her significant roles in A-lister movies.
Some of the previous comments on this thread speak to the Darrien character as the personification of 80s greed, maybe so, but they could have cast a more compelling actress to pull off a more convincing seduction of Budd Fox. -
Captain_Bob — 10 years ago(September 24, 2015 11:40 AM)
In the American 80's Daryl Hannah's look was considered very attractive (Splash, Roxanne, etc.) but in hindsight it's a bit pretentious and hugely dated. That shoulder-pad whore Gekko sends over to Bud's apartment looks like an anorexic transvestite. Bud opens the door and she's standing there like every man's dream date, but again that big hair bony face thing was very mid-80s. Then Bud meets Darien and she is heaping praise on Gordon's exquisite taste in art, referring to all that fcking garbage hanging on his wall it's just pathetic. And of course she "decorates" Bud's swanky new apartment with even more tawdry adolescent crap. No thanks.
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imnotlurch — 9 years ago(August 15, 2016 12:08 PM)
Ironically, I think her performance worked, though I don't think it was at all intentional on her partit was kind of dumb luck that it came together.
Here's why:
Hannah clearly wasn't comfortable playing this roleand I think that's why she wound up playing the role better than given credit for. Her character strikes me as someone who knows that she's well out of her league, a guppy swimming with sharks and trying to hold her own and keep up, and she's not at all comfortable in her own skinshe knows she's not what she'd like people in that crowd to believe that she is, and she seems nervous that she's going to be found out and outed for it at any time.
Think about it: She's not terribly gifted as an interior decorator, and will probably have trouble adapting as styles inevitably change and evolve. She's not dumb, but doesn't come off as being highly intelligent or cultured (though like everything else, she tries to fake it), or having any kind of soul at all. She's not terribly interested in anything more than being with someone who can take care of her and give her every last thing she wantsbut likely knows deep down that she's not really pretty enough to be that trophy wife. There's a reason that she winds up with Budhe's not much different than her in that he's in over his head, and despite trying to fit in and look calm and cool while doing it, it's obvious that neither one of them are ever truly as self-assured as Gecko and others. It's Bud's naivety and general newness to this scene that has him thinking that Darien's "performance" is genuinethe "vets" in that crowd probably don't think of her as anything more than a hook-up/fling (like what she probably had with Gordon). It takes that blowup in the apartment for him to realize that she's not at all what he thoughtI think he even sees his apartment differently (for the cheap tacky plastic faade that it really is) the second he's done with her. -
timroth — 9 years ago(December 10, 2016 01:44 PM)
Daryl Hannah apparently didnt understand her character and wasnt sure how to play her and I think that came out in the performance. However, since her character seemed conflicted about herself, I thought her performance worked in a roundabout way. Some people felt that Hannah simply didnt have to talent to play a bad guy, but I think her performance in Kill Bill II put that charge to rest.
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johndeansmith — 9 years ago(December 10, 2016 04:20 PM)
Darryl Hannah played her character perfectly. Remember, her character is simply another object to acquire with wealth - like the new suits, watch, artwork, condo, and more money. Her character was not supposed to be very deep or complex. She was simply another object.
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Paul_Ke — 9 years ago(December 14, 2016 07:53 AM)
Her performance was bad, but I'm still glad she was cast, because I've seen so many movies where they cast someone not that attractive to play this desirable woman who all the men want, and it's so unbelievable. At least Oliver Stone was smart enough to actually cast an attractive, desirable woman for the role. I didn't even care that Hannah's acting was bad in the movie. It was a small role anyway.