I watched this movie again a couple of days ago and I didn't get it this time around either. The plot is so unbelievable to me because both Malkovic and Close are disastrous miscasts. Glenn Close is a great actress of course but an ugly woman. Anybody going to any length for a night with her is a ridiculous idea, especially if you expect Hollywood movie rules to apply. And John's sex-appeal also must be in the director's eyes only. They just can't sell the story to me. Sorry.
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will answer why was John Malkovic picked up for the part, since women tend to drop like flies for him no matter how non conventionally handsome(to put it gently) he is. As for Glenn Close I really can't say, but in 18th Century France man's/woman's beauty was very much different to what we're used to seeing and classifying as beauty nowadays. Don't go too far..check out movies from later in the 90s and see what was considered pretty, comparing to now.
On the other hand, sex appeal and desire that someone causes to people is not 100% linked to the looks, someone can become charming or irresistible cause of station, act, snobbishness even.
Oh boy..beauty and sex appeal, apparently completelyy unbeknowest to you, goes far beyond physical looks. When you and your significant other lose yours, you'd better have learned that.
shareThe plot is so unbelievable to me because both Malkovic and Close are disastrous miscasts. Glenn Close is a great actress of course but an ugly woman. (...) And John's sex-appeal also must be in the director's eyes only. They just can't sell the story to me. Sorry.The fact that they don't look like underwear models makes this cast so perfect. This movie is about the art of seduction. To have to repel applicants just because of prettiness isn't seduction.
To me, there was nothing witty or charming about Valmont. At least not enough to make it realistic that he seduced a teenage girl, who was in love already with a guy much more suitable for her age-wise. He was only disgusting to me.
Intelligence and purity.
Valmont may be older than Danceny, but unlike that pale bore (another perfect cast: Keanu Reeves) he's interesting. If I had to choose between John Malkovich and Keanu Reeves, it would be John Malkovich, hands down. But like Marquise de Merteuil said so wisely, why either or -- you can have as many as you like.
Seduction is not a matter of the looks, it's a matter of the skills.
Well, both she and Valmont only disgust me (even if he somewhat redeemed himself in the end).
Intelligence and purity.
I agree -while I like the movie I cant help thinking what jamie Dornan would do with the role ? Malkovich has no sex appeal
shareYou couldnt be more wrong. They both were perfect in their act.
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