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Thread #50776   Message #771234
Posted By: The Walrus
25-Aug-02 - 09:20 AM
Thread Name: BS: Worst Miscasting: Actual and Feared
Subject: RE: BS: Worst Miscasting: Actual and Feared
Nichole,

Re: Glenn Close in Dangerous Liasons
As ever, this is purely personal opinion with no facts to back it up, but, she just didn't look right to me, I'm not sure what it was, I think it might be that her face is a little too "heavily boned" for my image of the French aristocracy (perhaps if the film had been set in Vienna I could have accepted her as a Hapsburg).
It's true that John Malkovich may not be "good looking enough to make him a believable Valmont", but have you ever seen images of Giacomo Cassanova?, he wouldn't have got the part either.

I'd forgotten John Wayne as Gengis Kahn - AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHH!!!!!

Walrus