Can't get over how gorgeous Faye Dunaway was in this film
Just stunningly beautiful. Very affecting performance too.
sharereally? I thought she stunk it up.
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Too bad she looks so bad now. She should've just left her face alone and never walked into the plastic surgeons.
shareThey do warn them about having surgery . . . that it can alter their essence in such a way that their never again how they were . . . it's gone!
shareI agree. It's a shame. Obviously she can't naturally look as good as she did in '75, but I'd have to think she would've looked better then she does now.
sharethis is actually my least favorite performance of her, but she still looks very good of course
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Totally agree. Thought the same while watching it. She looks much better in here than in Chinatown a year earlier, in Chinatown she had those weird eyebrows for some reason.
But in here, what a beauty! Totally understand why Condor chose her "randomly" :)
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Absolutely agreed.
However I thought her sex scene with Redford was out of place.
Her character felt like a tool for the writer.
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I agree. I think Kathy, the girl she's playing, is a few years younger than Faye's actual age, too.
At the time, I had a Chinese GF who was the spittin' image of Faye. Couldn't bring her to the States, so... :(
She's great in this, yes.
shareshe was at her hottest
shareIn the 70's, Dunaway was the "go to girl" to act romantically opposite the major male leads of the time:
Dustin Hoffman (Little Big Man) no romance, though
Stacy Keach (Doc--Holliday)
George C. Scott(Oklahoma Crude)
Jack Nicholson(Chinatown)
Paul Newman(The Towering Inferno) -- as Paul's lover
Steve McQueen(The Towering Inferno) -- no romance but a reunion with her Thomas Crown lover
Oliver Reed(The Three Musketeers)
Robert Redford(Three Days of the Condor)
Jon Voight (The Champ)
So in demand was Dunaway that she quit "The Wind and the Lion" (with Sean Connery) over exhaustion and Candice Bergen got the part. Bergen got hired a lot in the 70's, too.
Dunaway won the Best Actress Oscar for Network in 1976 for Network. William Holden(from The Towering Inferno, also) was her old, craggy lover of short duration. Dunaway wasn't the love interest in this one. She was the hard-charging demon of an anti-heroine.
Bottom line: in the 70s, when one removed Barbra Streisand(the biggest female star) from the table, Faye Dunaway was sort of left as the only game in town to cast opposite men. This was Shirley MacLaine's deal in the 60's and a little bit of the 70s, too. Also: Candice Bergen indeed got cast a lot in the 70's opposite major men.