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The first time I saw Uma Thurman was in The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen. Guessing she was around 20. She was absolutely stunning in that. I suppose her looks changed and faded a bit not long after then, dropped a point or two. But to this day even as an old woman she's still out of reach for every mom's-basement-dwelling troglodyte on this forum.
~EDIT~
Speaking of Uma's looks, here's a bit from the original script that didn't make it into the movie. It's right after Bill orders Elle Driver to abort her mission to kill comatose Beatrix in the hospital, before she leaves the room:
ELLE
Ya know now I get a better look
at you, you're not so damn pretty.
Yeah, you got that Venus thing
going for you but... ya know, now
I get a closer look at you you're
kinda weird looking. You got this
big nose that doesn't fit with the
rest of your face, your eyes are
two different sizes. And look
at your skin... My complexion is way
better than yours --
The Bride does one of her motor reflex functions...She
SPITS in Elle's face.
ELLE
Oh no you didn't.
Elle springs up, wipes the spit off her cheek and looks
down at The Bride in her bed.
She grabs The Bride by the front of her hospital gown...
...Yanks her up to a sitting position...
...And PUNCHES her hard in the face.
ELLE
If you ever take your ass out of this
goddamn bed for as long as you fuckin
live, I will beat it into the ground,
bitch!
Veda by a mile, she was basically a demon.
Glad I wasn't the only one who was annoyed by Anne Baxter's delivery. Over time, especially in recent years, I feel like I'm especially susceptible to being mildly irritated by the way some people speak, if I perceive them to be consciously putting on an unnatural affection. 99% of the occasions when I notice this sort of thing, it's some youtube video where someone is doing their own script. In this case, I just put it down to typical golden age Hollywood acting style. But pretty much every line of Eve dialogue I was thinking "Oh, gimme a break with the deep husky voice crap." I mean, none of the characters spoke very realistically, they all had a bit of stylized delivery. But Anne Baxter was way over the top. Didn't really hurt my enjoyment of the movie itself, thankfully.
I thought Allison Williams looked pretty rough in this, but she cleans up nice when she wants to.
I think I've only seen the other actor in one movie, Dragged Across Concrete. She was only on screen for a couple of minutes, never had a chance to confuse them, really.
I just watched it on a whim, it was in my "You Might Also Like" suggestions after I watched The Substance. I was vaguely aware of its existence... I always assumed it was some mid Netflix show. I knew nothing as to whether it was popular or not... personally I've never heard anyone mention it at all. I had no idea whether it got good or bad ratings. I just watched it because I had nothing better to do. For the first half hour or so it seemed about as mid as I expected. By the time I got to the 'memory of your mother' scene I was thinking "This is actually pretty good." When it was over I thought, "Damn. That was great." Not the least bit surprised to find it got good ratings.
"Code that makes M3GAN protect the person its paired to at all costs."
I thought it was basically of that. She accuses her creator of writing her AI code with no understanding of what it would eventually lead to.
I wasn't trying to contradict you, just giving his actual age, took like 10s .
Brazil's crime rate explosion was about 20 years in the future when this movie was made.
I just looked it up. They literally started shooting this movie the day after Caine's 50th birthday.
There is virtually nothing in this movie that was meant to be taken literally.
That's how it seemed to me. The original person, the 'matrix,' gets absolutely nothing out of it other than watching a younger version of themself get what they wish they could have. Without their minds/memories merging back together somewhere along the line, it's totally pointless. Elizabeth might as well sit back and watch any other younger actress take her place in the industry. It was a good movie, I enjoyed it, I get what it was saying... but the premise was beyond flimsy. It's all just metaphor anyway.
This all reminds me of when a teacher in high school went on this tangent/rant about Star Trek: "When Captain Kirk beams down to a planet, the Kirk who steps into the transporter... he's dead. He's killed right then and there. His body is disintegrated. His brain is destroyed. His mind is obliterated. The Kirk down on the planet, he's just a copy, a clone assembled out of molecules that were available down there. From his point of view he's the same Captain Kirk, he has all of the same memories and personality etc. But he's just a copy. The original Kirk back on the Enterprise, his life experience ended when the transporter activated. That was lights out for him. And the ~real~ original Captain Kirk, the one that was born on Earth and went to the Academy and joined Starfleet as a young man... he's been dead and gone since the first time he beamed anywhere, probably long before the first episode of the show."
Sure, 'maybe.' Taken out of context, 'maybe.' In the context of the scene, the specific intent of his statement is beyond obvious.
"It was not difficult to convince people he died a natural death."
Commodus's 'plausible deniability' was the linchpin of the entire plot. But the people present in Marcus's tent knew Commodus personally and knew what he was capable of. Even Maximus himself didn't literally ~know~ Commodus killed his father. And he knew he couldn't prove it. It's the epitome of the phrase "I don't know it for a fact... I only know it's true."
My take was that everyone had some idea of what happened, and they more or less agreed with Maximus. The tell is that when Maximus stated as flat fact, "The emperor has been slain," nobody reacts with any form of shock or surprise that he would say such a thing. There was no, "What?! WTF are you talking about?!" No push back at all. Obviously they didn't know exactly ~why~ Commodus would kill his father... "maybe he just wanted to hurry up and become emperor?" But it seemed like it was more or less common knowledge that Commodus was a slimy snake and a POS. They all sided with him simply because the bottom line was that like it or not he was now emperor and could have anyone executed at will. Pure self preservation. What were they going to do, arrest him without any tangible proof of what he'd obviously just done? Summarily kill him right there in the tent and make Lucilla emperor and hope things turned out for the best somehow? It was a no-win situation.
Yeah, Marcus fucked up. But hey, I've known a couple of people in my life whom I would describe as "immoral," but I still wouldn't imagine they were capable of murdering their own parent in cold blood.
Whatever you say retirednazifaggot!
It was probably QT's own interpretation of what he honestly thought it was about.
Legend has it Madonna later sent him an autographed copy of the record telling him he got it wrong.
What's so scary about the idea of a man breaking into your home in the middle of the night with a huge knife to stab you to death while you sleep?
The point here isn't that you were confused by it. It's that you were obviously distressed by it. Distressed by a slur that was used in a movie almost 50 years ago. "omg so unnecessary and pointless!" You couldn't just shake your head and go about your day, you had to come and virtue signal about it. Get fucked.
Marie was just being sarcastic.
Good advice from a typical MAGAt who spent the last four years throwing daily hate filled temper tantrums and shitting on the president non-stop. Glad we can learn from your lived experience.
...will be sitting in the Oval Office about a week from now.