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Movies Where She Looks the Best?

posted 8 years ago by CountJohn
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To counter some of the negativity on here, what are the movies where you think she looked prettiest?

I think I might say Grand Budapest Hotel. Her braid and all her clothes were so pretty and even with the birthmark Wes Anderson's lighting and cinematography were very kind to her face.

I also thought she looked really good in Brooklyn with all the old fashioned dresses (and her garters)

She looked great with the darker hair in The Host too (haven't even seen the movie)

[–] jlent 8 years ago

Older in age is usually the better. I liked her look in How I Live Now,
https://66.media.tumblr.com/22b01b74b1ca7b8f56cb0bf98c2157a8/tumblr_n3hbghsUSV1tsb8nto1_500.gif
but Peter Jackson did his best to make a 14-year-old girl look like a movie star in The Lovely Bones.
https://popculturenerd.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/saoirse.jpg

[–] purple_lemon 8 years ago

All of them except for 'Brooklyn' where she really did look the part as a young woman of those times. That is carrying a few extra pounds and wearing the frumpy clothing of the 1950's.

The Players of The Game are the scum of the earth.

[–] CountJohn 8 years ago

I always like 50's clothes like that on women.  I wish more dressed like that today.

[–] purple_lemon 8 years ago

I am fond of Costume Dramas but the 1950's fashions not so much, but to each their own.

The Players of The Game are the scum of the earth.

[–] SilverSurfer99 8 years ago

My vote would be for her appearance in Hanna. Something about the pale/ethereal look was stunning. If I had to have my neck snapped by anyone, it would be Hanna ✔.

[–] GoGoTomaGooooo 8 years ago

I would say is The Host, terrible movie but she looks stunning in it.

[–] jlent 8 years ago

Didn't know where to put this, but since I think in TLB Saoirse looks fantastic, especially her eyes, her greatest asset, here it is.
This is just my own neurosis in this post-election funk of mine but I hope you'll grant me some leeway.
The following is a fan video of the song "Song to the Siren" and the movie it was in, TLB.
I can't stop checking out a moment, first at 18 seconds, then again at about the 21-22-second mark in which Saoirse does this almost imperceptible thing with her eyes. By imperceptible I mean I had never seen it before - and I've seen the movie many times- and I had to rewind several times to be certain it was there. It is, and with eyes like hers, stunning, at least to me. Can't stop watching it now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOejg1mStm0

But don't stop the video there. The whole thing is wonderful, if familiar.
OK, sorry to have done that to you. As you were.

[–] Steve7216 8 years ago

They spliced a different part of the film onto the ending jlent. I've always felt this was a great performance regardless of her age. There are so many powerful scenes, some of them with no direct dialogue other than quite a lot voiceover from the young narrator. Like you, I've seen the film many times, and understanding what's happening in the scene here makes it all the more powerful. Jackson said in the extra material that she is a very powerful actress. Who can argue?

For me, it's very disturbing because she creates this very normal, lovely teenager on the cusp of womanhood who has this great spark of life exuding from her character but is then taken so horribly from this world. I'll always believe she should've received an Oscar nod for the performance.

Those eyes seem to do so much in her films. One critic said it's like she can dilate them. I think part of it is the angle and lighting of certain shots.