Elle Fanning is very plain looking. It doesn't look like she put any work into her looks except for starving herself. I'm going to be an *beep* and say shes ugly but considering she was playing a woman who is at the height of true beauty I just don't buy it. Abbey Lee was better looking and she was supposed to be jealous of Elle's looks?
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Before I watched the movie, I would easily have agreed with you. I have always thought both Elle and her sister were ordinary and plain looking. However, with the right amount of makeup and a change of clothes, most plain girls can be made into runway models. In fact, runway models are less conventionally attractive traditionally, and commercial models are more 'universally attractive'. Runway models are typically odd and gawky looking.
That said, I did think this movie did a good job with making over Elle Fanning to make me believe she had that 'thing'. Her acting helped with that a lot, but I think in general the thing she had that the other girls didn't was her youth. Full natural face/cheeks, no under eye bags or circles, and obviously very young in appearance. Even though the other girls may have been more attractive (I disagree with you about Abbey Lee, I thought she was painful to look at until the very end, compared to Bella Heathcote), they didn't have her youth. Age was brought up in this movie quite a bit, so I'm guessing that was the main 'thing'.
Well as a skinny catwalk type of model yeah, plus she had the youth on her side and also she was all natural unlike the others.
We don't have a dog. That was just some really violent sex.
"attractive"? yes, there are different types of beauty. innocent beauty, raw sexual beauty, mature beauty, natural beauty, unnatural beauty, rugged beauty, flawless beauty, etc etc
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.and then the bong hits him on the head and he falls RIGHT over the realitY
Objectively the other girls in the movie may be "hotter" but the point was that Jesse had a natural quality that can't be faked. she is the kind of girl that guys want to date yet girls want to be. although i have to say she looked absolutely breathe taking in the scene on the couch when she is touching herself. gorgeous.
shareI think she is pretty, but I don't see as the typical model of sticks and bones. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Her looks are not the reason this film fails. basically this is a Poor man's Black Swan.
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It's really nothing like Black Swan or any other film for that matter, trust me, I've looked. Closest would be Suspiria. Black Swan I'd the poor man's Perfect Blue ( And Black Swan is a top 5 for me.)
This film doesn't fail in my opinion. I find it it to be a flawless piece of art. Even objectively I can not fault this film in any way.
She has the innocent girl next door look.
shareI had pretty much the same reaction and thought it might be a trick of the movie to cast the least attractive woman as the most attractive one as beauty is a matter of perception. But coming here it seems that many genuinely think she's a goddess.
shareDon't forget the fashion industry is mostly gay men, so gay men, who aren't attracted to women, are saying which women are attractive lol
shareHow everyone fawned over Jesse's looks was a huge immersion breaker for me. It would be as if they brought in the elephant man and everyone was acting like he's Brad Pitt. So they want me to sit here and pretend like Elle doesn't have a ugly pig nose and the body type of a skinny 10 year old boy? Nah fam. I wouldn't even bang her IRL.
shareLol Fam. I bet the majority of people complaining are hetero men with only one thought, "who would I *beep*?" It's not about sexiness. It isn't about who is most bangable. It's about who has that youth, innocence, deer in the headlights look. It's about who looks angelic and virginal. That is the entire point of people fawning over Jesse in the movie. They are used to used up, jaded, ultra sexual women. Jesse represents something a lot rarer and much more profound than a screw.
A friend of mine was a model in NYC. Her two other best friends are sexy blonde bombshells, while she was thin, flat chested and youthful. She was far from ugly but going off what I'm reading here... you'd prefer the other two... but they weren't the ones who could make it as models and on a runway.