I don't understand her behavior in this role. She acts strangely from the get go and tells Ryan gosling she is his boss and then seems to force herself on him without even getting to know him. Not to mention he's been at this hot shot firm for five minutes before he sleeps with her? Really?! Totally unprofessional.
shareAlso, she doesn't actually look much like Rosamund Pike. It's amazing what make up can do: it can turn a classic English rose, more associated with demure roles in Austenian costume dramas, into a sassy and sharp LA lawyer. Am I the only one to be taken aback by this physical transformation?
shareIt's called 'acting'-have a look at the variety of roles she's played over the years, including those that required a sexual openness or aggression on the character's part.
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I think the role was 'love interest'..and it was spectacularly bad, pointless and small.
Otherwise the play/film would have been a two hander as they say, great story/plot but only with men. And we can't possibly have that can we?
Maybe she needed something to raise her profile in Moneywood, I think she should get a new agent...
Her character was all over the place.
I'm also guessing the role was added in to satisfy a "love interest" requirement. The finished movie is a half hour too long in my opinion so they may have edited out scenes showing her relationship developing , in the interests of expediency. The result however is that her character goes from powerhouse attorney to T&A chick.
his cute assistant would have made for a far more convincing love interest, at least their professional relationship was coming to an end and they clearly would've known eachother for long enough to have developed a relationship or at least the desire for one. having him jump straight into bed with his new boss made both of them seem like unprofessional idiots with no self control committing career suicide
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Leo Di Caprio landed her(Zoe Kazan) in a similar situation a couple of years later in 'Revolutionary Road'.
'What is an Oprah?'-Teal'c.
Maybe I need to watch the movie a little more closely. I didn't find it obvious she was a love interest until I went to the extras section of the DVD and saw "Nikki Sex Scene" 1 and 2. I thought it was a good idea to cut those from the final edit as it made no sense.
I know the Gosling character had Thanksgiving dinner with her family but I thought that was a more get to know you thing. And he calls him while wearing lingerie but isn't that how all hot women walk around the house?
She was the pointless and easy love interest.
Its that man again!!
I thought the same thing. have you seen the deleted scenes ?? Don't miss it - go back and watch it.
Rosamund Pilcher's role was one of a classy tramp. It is not uncommon for higher up educated corporate women to sleep around - let alone sleezy lawyers!. Not uncommon at all. Welcome to the corporate world.
What an absolutely ridiculous blanket statement. You sound like a complete git.
"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it." Norman Maclean
Well sorry if it sounds like a "blanket statement", but this sadly corresponds to our society: attractive professional women *sometimes* become the object of desire of fat cats, which conveniently promotes them to higher opportunities.
One Example: Fox News .. I assume you heard the latest scandals ...
No need for name calling . I don't do that.
The problem with your statement is that you isolate it to professional women, rather than acknowledge it to be a general human trait. Humans have sex. Lots of sex. Frequently hurried sex without ties. To make it about one group is a grievous, biased error.
shareAnd, of course, nobody has ever acted unprofessionally in a large organisation, ever-especially when it comes to sexual attraction...
'What is an Oprah?'-Teal'c.
I think this character was introduced to make the plot more disturbing. I also feel they had to have a link to the judge. For me it made the ending that much more disturbing.
shareShe was a high riding biatch, and worked for the crooked larger firm where Willy thought he wanted to go until he grew a conscience. She was his opposite, and possibly a look at what he would have become if not for the Crawford case.
I couldn't endure Pike in this. Her character was fibe, but she, herself, annoyed me to the point of almost being turned off. Her voice....ugh. I've liked her in everything I've seen her in except this film.
"I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?"
A pointless love interest. It's obligatory in every single Hollywood movie, no matter how irrelevant it is to the central plot. It really annoys me to be honest. And yeah, the thing about him sleeping with her practically on day one, that was just... I'm sorry, I just didn't buy that. Even by the standards of pointless love interests, that was just dumb. Like who the f-ck wrote this?
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