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Yet again, Cruz opts to play a latina slut in a film...

posted 20 years ago by Firedragon524
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Thats my problem with her recently.

When she did Spanish movies, she always played important parts:

Belle Epoque (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103791/)
La Ribelle (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107956/)
Todo es mentira (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111449/)
Brujas (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149969/)
Abre los ojos (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125659/)

But, as soon as she comes to the US, she always plays some secondary character whose a lecherous slut:

Blow (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221027/)
All The Pretty Horses (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149624/)
Gothika (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348836/)

COME NOT BETWEEN THE DRAGON AND HIS WRATH

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[–] Firedragon524 19 years ago

so what's ur point?

I believe I ALREADY MADE IT. Learn how to read moron...

COME NOT BETWEEN THE DRAGON AND HIS WRATH

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[–] iluv_finaldestination3 19 years ago

http://garrett-hedlund.com/garrett/images/mags/gh_oct20_04_5.jpg

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[–] nxgn_not_not 18 years ago

Zounds like we need 2 spend a little more time south of the line. Well south. U Might want to avoid Columbia though.

Crack & Meth R things that can take over a persons whole reality. Sort of like "power" inside the belt way.

Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. --J. Frank Parnell

[–] bcgarant 17 years ago

How do you consider Cruz a slut in this film? I only seen her with Matt Damon the entire film besides the guy she was dancing with but it didn't look to me as if she were with him because the guy just walked away and it was obvious it was just a dance.

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[–] Child_OfThe_Moon 17 years ago

Right, because we all know the reliability of Hollywood tabloids!

[–] grumpyoldguy1 15 years ago

Penelope Cruz is a gifted and attractive actor whose personal life is nobody's business but her own. Her portrayal of Alejandra in this film is quite simply a depiction of a young woman involved in a love relationship with a young man. There is nothing in the character's behavior to warrant such a sexist, racist remark. The term "slut" has no place in any decent person's vocabulary, any more than "tramp," "ho," and all of the other derogatory terms used to demean women. By coupling such a distasteful word with any racial description compounds the offense.

grumpyoldguy

[–] jaker_breaker 14 years ago

The above poster gets it right.

[–] Wuchakk 11 years ago

A "slut" is a woman who casually "sleeps around" with men. How is Cruz' character in the film a slut? She falls in love with Damon's character and their relationship grows to include sex. How exactly is this being a slut?

According to the OP's broad definition of slut his own mother would be one -- and 90% of women who have ever existed. Absurd.

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[–] davedave11 9 years ago

She loves her life as a rich and privileged woman in a poor country a lot more than she loves the Damon character

The Damon character foolishly loves her more than life, his life and the life of his friend

[–] Wuchak (8855) 3 years ago

You're selling her short. She made a promise to the family matriarch & her father so that Damon's character's would be freed from prison, not to mention live and not die (his partner too). The great cost was that they would have no future together and she honored that promise.