Monday
Dec052016
"Don't call me 'baby'! "
Monday, December 5, 2016 at 1:30PM 
...I'm not your baby."
Great Moments in Screen Bitchery #283
Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface (1983)
Monday, December 5, 2016 at 1:30PM 
Top
NEW REVIEWS
Oscar History
Film Bitch History
SMACKDOWN INDEX
-
all the episodes thus far
Welcome
The Film Experience™ was created by Nathaniel R. All material herein is written by our team. (This site is not for profit but for an expression of love for cinema & adjacent artforms.)
Follow TFE on Substackd
COMMENTS
- November 15 - Fabio Dantas Flappers on An Early Look at the Best Director Oscar Race
- November 15 - Fabio Dantas Flappers on Let's play the Recasting Game! JLaw Edition
- November 14 - Travis C on An Early Look at the Best Director Oscar Race
Keep TFE Strong
We're looking for 500... no 390 Subscribers! If you read us daily, please be one.
THANKS IN ADVANCE
What'cha Looking For?
Subscribe
Monday, December 5, 2016 at 1:30PM
Copyright © 2010, Nathaniel Rogers. All rights reserved.
Reader Comments (19)
My God, that face!
Michelle would also be a great choice for Elle, I think.
By the way, according to IMDB, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Julianne Moore, Diane Lane, Marion Cotillard and Nicole Kidman all rejected the script by Paul Verhoeven. All of them!
For me that's is such a big sign that Hollywood is full of cowards who are afraid to face a role like Isabelle did in Elle.
Brando -- i'm not sure given the roles some of those women have played that you can call them cowardly about their role choices. But yeah, in general Hollywood actresses are more timid than the French women.
And by the way because of the Academy and their inability to give the oscar to Emmanuelle Riva and Charlotte Rampling for the past 3 years, It's time for them to give the award for the best actress and the bravest one.
And this year is Isabelle Huppert. Forget Natalie, she already have one, forget Emma, she is young and busy, forget Anette, she got Beatty.
Isabelle is the one and everyone in the industry knows that. They just have to be brave enough to face that. Come on, America!
Nathaniel, the role of Michelle from Elle is nothing like any other role that these women have encounter.
And I dont think that because she is french and the rest are american the answer is given.
American actress must be more brave, they must take more risks with their directors and writers.
The script from Elle is scary for an actress, I get, but it's such a revolutionary role in terms of the morality of a women and the pleasure she can get from the people around her... I mean Cate Blanchett instead of Elle was in New Zealand doing a Marvel movie. Come on...
I bet she is a great villain with that CGI and the muscle God but in the end you know that's garbage from the some factory.
Elle is a piece of art and Isabelle and Paul should run for presidency.
Reluctance to participate in Elle may have everything to do with Verhoeven himself and not thematic material.
Thank God the movie was made in France by Verhoeven (who is not usually my cup of tea). I shudder to think of a Hollywood/American version of this challenging if not to say questionable material. We're neither good with sex nor with ambiguities over here. It would have been a disaster without Huppert and the rest of the ensemble's light touch and the Parisian milieu.
Paul Outlaw, Hitchcock made is carrer in Hollywood based on sex and ambiguities.
Maybe for that reason the Academy never gave him an Oscar. Now I see.
/3rtful-
i was thinking that too.. I know I would be reluctant to sign onto a project from the director of Showgirls :)
@ Brando
That was another era of filmmaking and that was Hitchcock.
The only thing I liked about this movie. The movie should've just been about her character tbh ;)
The only Hollywood actress that I can picture doing Elle would be Kidman... And I bet she would've been great! She could've exploited her glamour and (perceive) iciness to great effect. She's also the perfect age for the role (Huppert plays abt 10-15 years younger, not that it matters) and we know Kidman'll do anything for the camera... But having said that, she's a UN Goodwill ambassador to fight violence against women so I can see why she might have turned this down, given the subject matter.
OMG, now can't get Nic as Elle outa my mind. Sigh. That woulda been magic.
OMG, now can't get Nic as Elle outa my mind. Sigh. That woulda been magic.
Well I heard the opposite things. Verhoeven wanted Huppert all the way but the studio tried to replace Huppert with other English speaking actresses. I think that Blanchett may have declined the offer so Huppert could take the role
Also Blanchett has always said that her children regulates her time and space for a movie project. And since Blanchett and Huppert worked together in The Maids, Blanchett may, just may, have declined as a favor to Huppert
One of those performances that non-cinephiles are surprised to learn wasn't Oscar-nominated.
Pfeiffer pforever.
I've wondered if Elvira is who Annie Hathaway had in mind when she did her "I'm not your baby" line reading to Christian in The Devil Wears Prada. Wouldn't that be something. Quite an homage.
It's the rape issue. That's why all said no. Haven't you read Chastain's tweet?
I just read NYTimes' discussion on why Huppert is the Greatest ever.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/movies/things-to-come-review-isabelle-huppert.html?_r=0
Deservingly do!
Yaahh.. M busy babes