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Memorable Femme Fatales; (where's Sharon Stone?)
Topic Started: Apr 2 2006, 07:33 AM (399 Views)
George K
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From Entertainment Weekly.

10. Drew Barrymore
Barrymore revealed that she was no longer the little girl from E.T. with her role in 1992's Poison Ivy, playing a trashy teen who appears out of nowhere and moves in with dweeby Sylvie (Sara Gilbert).

9. Rita Hayworth
Even with her glorious auburn locks bobbed and dyed blonde, Hayworth is luminous and otherworldly as Elsa in The Lady From Shanghai (1947).

8. Renee Zellweger
Some fatal femmes seduce a man or two as part of their murder plots, but Roxie Hart seduces the entire Windy City in Chicago (2002). With the help of slick lawyer Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), she portrays herself as a victim, becomes a media darling, upstages a more seasoned performer (Catherine Zeta-Jones' Velma, a nightclub singer and fellow murder defendant), and even gets her hapless husband (John C. Reilly) to take the heat for her.

7. Kim Novak
In 1958's Vertigo, Novak's haunted — and haunting — Madeleine destroys James Stewart's life not once but twice. His sleuth Scottie tries to save her from what appears to be a ghostly possession, but it's she who's entrapped him, setting up the acrophobic detective to take the fall in a murder plot.

6. Annette Bening
Most femmes fatales preserve their mystery by leaving something to the imagination. Not Bening's Myra Langtry in The Grifters (1990). In the performance that made Bening a star, her Myra is brazenly sexual, not at all shy about parading around naked or trading sex for money (or jewelry, or rent).

5. Nicole Kidman
In 1995's To Die For, Nicole Kidman's small-town weather girl Suzanne Stone Maretto wants to be a national TV star in the worst way, and she gets her wish when her murder trial becomes a media circus. Kidman gives her a comical but chilling edge; she plays Suzanne as a perky Barbie doll with a frozen smile.

4. Jane Greer
World-weary Robert Mitchum is nobody's fool, but in 1947's Out of the Past, he makes the mistake of getting entangled with Kathie Moffat (Greer), who entraps him in a snare of sex, embezzlement, and murder. Then he gets involved with her a second time, knowing full well what's in store, because he can't help himself. ''You're no good, and neither am I,'' she tells him. ''That's why we deserve each other.''

3. Kathleen Turner
The old let's-kill-my-husband-for-the-insurance-money plot has been done many times, but no one has given it as much carnal heat as Turner does in her starmaking film debut, 1981's Body Heat. Her character, Matty, finds the perfect patsy in Ned (William Hurt), a seedy lawyer. ''You're not to bright, are you?'' she purrs. ''I like that in a man.'' Soon, the sultry Matty is leading Ned around by the genitals — literally, in one scene, where she reaches below the frame and pulls him along like a puppy on a leash. Ned will pay dearly, of course, but he certainly seems to enjoy the ride while it lasts.

2. Linda Fiorentino
Really, it's not even fair. None of the men in 1994's The Last Seduction is any match for Fiorentino's con artist Bridget Gregory — not her similarly larcenous husband (Bill Pullman), nor the feckless white-collar drone (Peter Berg) she hooks up with after she runs off with hubby's ill-gotten gains. She's smarter and greedier than everyone else, with a gift for improvising her way out of trouble, and unburdened by any trace of regret, compassion, or regard for the lives of others.

1. Barbara Stanwyck
Stanwyck pretty much invented the femme fatale with her role in 1944's Double Indemnity, a film written by three of the most hard-boiled scribes in Hollywood history: Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler, and James M. Cain (whose The Postman Always Rings Twice, which has a similar plot, provided an unforgettable femme fatale role for Lana Turner and, later, Jessica Lange). Of all the dames who ever convinced some poor sap to kill her husband for the insurance money, Stanwyck's Phyllis Dietrichson is the slinkiest, the scariest, and the least remorseful. This is a woman who can make shopping at the grocery store seem sexy and dangerous.
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Never mind Sharon, what about Carolyn Jones? They don't get much more fatale than this femme.

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AHH! Memories of adolescence! Thanks John. Somehow the Angelica Houston version just wasn't the same.

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What about Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction?

I agree, where's Sharon Stone?
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Apr 2 2006, 11:04 AM
What about Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction?

Yah! Her too!

Did you know that there was an alternative ending to Fatal Attraction? The original ending saw Glenn Close's character commit suicide and Michael Douglas' adulterous character arrested for her murder. I always thought that was better - more consistent with Close's character: "If I can't have you, NO ONE will have you."
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Nina
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That movie bugged me because of the wife (Anne Archer? I can't remember).

I think if Mr. Nina came home and said, "Bad news, honey--I had an affair with a hot chick and now she's turned into a homicidal maniac and wants to kill you," I don't think I'd be so lovey-dovey and understanding.

I think there'd be a double murder sometime in the near future... :sword:
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Where's Lana Turner in A Postman Always Rings Twice???????????
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FrankM
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What about Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel, Rita Hayworth in Gilda, and, especially, Miss Piggy in Muppets from Space?
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Apr 2 2006, 12:34 PM
...and, especially, Miss Piggy in Muppets from Space?

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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