She did a great job playing an intensely irritating character!
Did *you* miss the line from the warden "You don't have to tell people you are from New York."?
That was just one of MANY zingers in this movie.
As far as needing an attraction goes, didn't *she* make a move, sort of, on the warden, then rapidly back off of it? She made a comment "we need to go to bed" and the warden's eyes lit up, then she backed away, adding "to go to sleep", "in separate tents", and "to get some rest". Remember, her character had just been burned in a romance with her boss at the museum. The warden reluctantly left the tent, disappointed...
IMHO, she is a much better actress than the character/performance in this movie allowed.
Sometimes the *chemistry* of a cast and crew is just not quite right, and the final product is less than what it might have been...
Some of the most memorable movie moments were ad-libs by the actors.
EXAMPLES:
- The scene in PRETTY WOMAN when Richard Gere snaps the necklace case on Julia Roberts' fingers. He is well known as a practical joker, and that has not been well received by other actors in some of his other movies. That was just one of his practical jokes during filming that movie, and IMO, it changed the tone of the movie.
- The scene with Jodie Foster interviewing 'Hannibal Lecter' in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, and the Doctor answers "I ate his liver with Fava beans and a nice Chiante" and makes the terrifying slurping sounds that were so memorable. The slurping was a complete ad-lib by Anthony Hopkins. With that sound, you just *knew* he had to be kept strapped in his confinement, ALL the time.
a thoroughly dangerous man...
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