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Underrated Scarllet Johansson Films/Performances


We all know about her more popular or performances where she rightly gets praised for like MCU films, Her, Marriage Story, Jojo Rabbit, Under The Skin, Lost In Translation etc..

But let's talk about films or performances from Scarlett that don't get a lot of love. When you mention a role or performance, give a bit of detail why.

The Man Who Wasn't There- Her first Coen Brothers role, and one of her pre Lost in Translation works. She's great as a teenage vamp seducing Billy Bob Thorton's hairdresser, she's not in a lot but she's great. One of Coen Brother's most underrated films. She's also one of the best things about Hail Cesar.

An American Rhapsody- A lot of her pre LIT work is rarely talked about outside of Ghost World and The Horse Whisperer. But this is one of her better young performances. She's got great chemistry with Nastassja Kinski. I think die hard Scarlett fans have probably seen it.

The Perfect Score- One of her more fun roles, one of her first roles after big break out with Lost in Translation. Great to see her on screen with fellow future MCU talent Chris Evans.

The Prestige- This is a classic and I always forget that Scarlett was in a Christopher Nolan film, it always blows my mind. I'd like to see her in another Nolan film with a bigger role. But this is one of her more underrated performances, she's not given a ton to do but her performance is really good in this one.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona- She got overshadowed a bit by Penelope Cruz and Rebecca Hall, who got all the plaudits for this film (rightly so though). But Scarlett is great in it too, it's not as award worthy as Cruz's or Hall's performances but it's my favourite of her's from her Woody Allen work.

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She's almost always hot. I like it.

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Depends greatly on make up and costume design. In The Prestige she was ok, I guess.

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She was best in my fantasies about her.

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I saw The Man Who Wasn't There but it was one of only a handful of Coen films I didn't really get into. I need to give it another shot.

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It's not a easy film to get into. It took me two or three rewatches before it clicked for me.

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She was fantastic in The Horse Whisperer. Over the course of the movie she had to go from shock to grief to anger to acceptance regarding her character’s catastrophic injuries. Her arc required she play the petulant teenager vs. the maturing young woman as the story progressed. Playing a character with a huge evolution takes real skill

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