^ What the hell kind of snooker matches are you watching?
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Emma Thompson slams film icon Audrey Hepburn
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^ What the hell kind of snooker matches are you watching?
Think he's probably referring to Mitchell and Webb's Snooker commentators.
This.What people usually do in those situations is state that they don't agree with someone's opinion and give their own view... rather than express outrage that the person has dared to express an opinion they disagree with, followed by criticism of the person's career that is completely unrelated to the topic.
And you still haven't explained what barriers Hepburn broke and how she "opened the door" for Thompson.There were always plenty of white European actresses playing leads in Hollywood...
I recently watched a couple of Hepburn's classics for the 1st time-- Sabrina & Breakfast at Tiffany's. In both cases, I'd say she's the best thing in them.
I found Breakfast at Tiffany's to be nearly unwatchable, awash in unlikable characters. It's not a particularly charming role for Hepburn but at least she brings a certain zing & zest to it. She's got a great sense of comic timing. The problem is that the overall persona of being Audrey Hepburn clashes too severely with the fact that her character is a whore. But still, she's better than George Peppard is. Her ultimate woe is to be stuck in a romantic comedy with a leading man who has no sense of comic timing.
Sabrina is markedly better. It's got a solid supporting cast throughout and Bogart does a great job of subverting his hardboiled image and playing a comedy. Hepburn is endlessly charming and instantly lovable. The problem here is that, while Bogart handles the rest of his role capably, he shows zero romantic chemistry with Hepburn. He looks too old for her and looks like he knows it. Hepburn, for her part, is doing everything she can to look like she's falling in love with this man, but Bogart is giving her nothing back. (The romance flows much more organically in the 1995 remake with Harrison Ford & Julia Ormond.)
I'm still interested in exploring more of her early films. I've got Funny Face & Roman Holiday on the agenda next.
Hugh Laurie would be better as the smarmy, self-serving Higgins.^Hugh Jackman would fill Harrison's shoes - every single pair, not to mention his blasted slippers!!!
That's actually who I was thinking of. I think Jackman would be too pretty to be Henry Higgins.
Since Hepburn was only 5 years younger than Bogart's wife Lauren Becall, my guess is that the problem was not so much than Hepburn was too young, but that she really, really wasn't his type. It's hard to buy Bogart paired up with someone as cutesy, girlish and innocent-looking as Andrey Hepburn... It just doesn't work.
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I think you missed the point of her character though, at least in the context of the film. I haven't read the book, but Audrey Hepburn's Holly Golightly was essentially a stand-in, a marker for the transitional woman of her time.
She's not the domesticated, motherly stereotypical Donna Reed wife of the '50s nor is she yet the liberal, feminist or free-thinking, modern woman of the '60s and beyond. Holly is that key moment between the two that necessarily had to be there for one to transform and/or move on to the other. The film is about that as much as it's about Holly being a whore or George Peppard (who apparently, was an absolute terror to work with on the film.)
If you want to know more about this, I highly suggest reading Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson.
That's where the idea for "Pretty Woman" comes from.
Julia Roberts is supposed to be our modern day Audrey Hepburn.
I have never had any particular fondness for Audrey Hepburn, and have always found Emma Thompson to be an interesting actress... so I have no problems with her comments.
On an entirely different topic, as much as I am sure I will get blasted for saying this... If they are recasting Rex Harrison, they would be absolute morons not to audition Seth MacFarlane.
On an entirely different topic, as much as I am sure I will get blasted for saying this... If they are recasting Rex Harrison, they would be absolute morons not to audition Seth MacFarlane.
It was pretty much brushed over in BaT then, since I completely missed it. The only whoring that was obvious was the Peppard character.
Yeah, I think during the time it was made they couldn't come out and directly say the main female lead was a whore. People would have freaked and boycotted the film, most likely.
..but men are whores.
Thank God, we're only allowed one orgasm per session.
If we had multipule, we'd be dangerous.
..but men are whores.
Thank God, we're only allowed one orgasm per session.
If we had multipule, we'd be dangerous.
Speak for yourself.
Shiiiiiii, I am...but men are whores.
Thank God, we're only allowed one orgasm per session.
If we had multipule, we'd be dangerous.
Speak for yourself.
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