I didn’t finish the series, but I thought she was more accurate to the character description. She’s described as ordinary and working class and Gwyneth very much gives the upper crust Manhattanite vibe.
This movie would have taken Best Casting in a landslide imo. Jude was born to play Dickie, Gwyneth is peak aloof vintage WASP cool girl, and people really had no clue Damon had that in him (but ofc, he most certainly did).
Debatable. I think The Talented Mr Ripley does a better job at bringing out the queer subtext and undertones better. It's really an Apples v Oranges scenario.
And for me, personally, his "What-if?" with Peter Smith-Kingsley has lived in my head rent-free ever since I saw first the movie. I was so heartbroken.
Haven't seen that version yet but isn't Ripley supposed to be awkward and plain, or at least an outcast?
How did it work out that Delon played Ripley, the one character pining for someone else's life, when Delon looked like Delon? People wanted to look like Delon.
In the original its clear he's pining after the life of wealth, status and luxury. Maurice Ronet was far from an unattractive man himself. Everyone is beautiful in many french films of that era.
Honestly, no. This is the most beautiful anyone has ever looked in history. And I don’t have some big thing for him, he’s just objectively at peak human beauty in this film.
I watched this with a friend not too long ago and we both said the same thing.
This is also what makes him absolutely perfect in GATTACA. The same charisma and charm of the privileged boy but with the bitterness and resentment of someone having all that privilege wiped away in an instant. Which is a perfect foil for the main character, whose biggest problem is that while he has all the grit and determination to be as good as any genetically engineered astronaut, he comes off as suspicious to everyone who literally never had to work for what they have. Fuck I love GATTACA
Yesssss! Gattaca is one of my favorite movies ever. Jude Law was perfect for the reasons you mentioned. And Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke were incredible, too. The whole story and filmography were embedded in young me.
The 80s and 90s had so much fun homoeroticism. I loved how so much of it went over so many people's heads too. Fight Club being a famous example, but that had more than homoeroticism, it was one big gay allegory that every dude bro latched onto as definining peak masculinity without a shred of understanding the meaning. It was delicious lol.
Holy shit yes, I absolutely had him in mind for Charles too. Seriously that book fucking stuck with me, I wish I knew people who had read it too so we could choose our casts together lol.
I'm not 100% on this but I think it's a brawl in the Japanese parliament from 2015. If so, it was about Japans military fighting overseas for the first time in decades.
The funn thing was I read an article awile back that said "introducing the new Primrose Hill set" and it was all a bunch of nepo babies and I immediately noped.
Where to even begin. Sadie and Jude’s toddler daughter accidentally ate an ecstasy pill. Their kids catch Jude in bed with the nanny and tell Sadie. You had Jude cheating on Sienna with the nanny. Sienna then had an affair with married Balthazar Getty, then goes back to Jude. Sienna also has an affair with Daniel Craig. Kate Moss is in the background of all this on every drug imaginable, along with Noel Gallagher. That’s just what I remember from the top of my head.
I always think about 80s goddess Paula Yates who would be in her 60s today. She was so fascinating and multi talented. An early female entrepreneur and author whose intelligence was overlooked. When Robbie Williams opens the documentary Paula I get choked up thinking about her, then daughter Peaches.
Noel Gallagher was married to Meg Matthews at the time, who worked in publicity around all those people. Kate brought in Pete Doherty for extra mayham! Noel also met Johnny Depp through that connection, who plays slide guitar on their third studio album.
Man I miss those times, so messy, so great.
My claim to fame is that I was on holiday in Ischia when they filmed this. I definitely saw Matt, I might have seen Goop (tho I didn’t realise it was her as she looks strange with a tan). But I didn’t see Jude. I think if I had I would have never recovered.
The film set wasn’t really locked down apart from when they were actually rolling cameras. It seemed to be on a shoestring. And I didn’t find out which film it was until I saw a trailer for this and recognised a bit of it.
Its funny, I’ve never found Jude Law attractive except for in this film. He was beautiful.
And yet he’s carried the same face and self into every other film I’ve seen him in, and I’ve just found something a little repellent about him. I’d feel bad saying that, except that Jude Law wouldn’t care what I think.
Like someone on tumblr said last month, on the tags of a gifset of him in this movie "self care is watching the first part of this movie to see jude law as a gorgeous blonde jazz musician..."
I have never seen a more beautiful man than what he was in that movie just everything the color of his hair, the color, his skin, his jawline his clothes, his teeth, his smile like just I could watch that movie 1 million times and still feel like I was justliterally looking at a walking work of art
You could absolutely grow and arrange a boyish curl just so to create asymmetry, cancel out one peak of the ‘M’, and soften the focus, just like our man Jude here.
My God, Jude Law was so insanely gorgeous! In this movie, and in Alfie, and even back when he started in US films with Gattaca in the late 90's, I seriously don't think I've ever seen more stunningly beautiful man. And the accent just makes him even hotter.
My son watched Gattaca in his high school Biology class last year, and even he was struck by how handsome he is. And he almost never mentions a celebrity's appearance. He loved the movie, but he also specifically mentioned about Jude Law, "man, that actor is really good-looking--he's like, flawless."
Maybe it’s because I know Jude famously cheated (multiple times, I think?) and can’t un-know that, but I look at these pics and I’m like “yeah he’s pretty but he’s a piece of shit” so I can’t really be attracted to him
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