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Angelina Jolie as next Sadie Thompson?!!

posted 15 years ago by hbv2061
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Not a rumor, but a hope! I would love to see Angelina Jolie take on the
Sadie Thompson role, with Brad as the preacher who saves her soul! They
would be fantastic.

[–] scottsteaux63-735-780576 12 years ago

There are a number of worthy ladies in Hollywood who could do a great Sadie. Angelina is certainly one of them, but if I had to pick one it would be Anne Hathaway. She took what was basically an underwritten role in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and invested it with life and vigor, making a character that could have proven forgettable impossible to forget. And as her character in BROKEBACK was a shrewd businesswoman in the Sixties, I could definitely see her as a prostitute in the 1920s.

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[–] hbv2061 11 years ago

Actually after seeing Anne Hathaway's Brokeback Mountain co-star Michelle Williams do an Oscar worthy Marilyn, I would have to say Michelle would do an outstanding Sadie!

[–] scottsteaux63-735-780576 11 years ago

I must see that Marilyn picture soon; I've heard her performance is the biggest transformation since Meryl Streep in SOPHIE'S CHOICE.

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[–] scottsteaux63-735-780576 11 years ago

Another actress who occurs to me as a potential Sadie is Chloë Sevigny. There's a certain ordinariness to her look that makes her prime material for a good makeup technician, so I can see her as both the outrageous and slutty Sadie and the "reformed" and penitent "Miss Thompson." Sevigny also possesses the necessary acting chops to take on the difficult role; I have always been impressed that Crawford, who could very easily have turned the whole thing into an exercise in dual personality, was not only believable as both aspects of Sadie but we never feel that we are looking at a different woman.

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[–] Helena727 10 years ago

When you are people who are so rabidly enthusiastic about re-makes going to get it thru your heads that
--- originals are best left alone, to be appreciated in all their glory (I don't hear you urging some 21st-century painter to re-do the Mona Lisa);
--- re-makes suck 99.99% of the time, largely because they are trying (and failing) to capture the unique fire that comes from blending a particular story (with specific themes and problems) and the era in which the movie was made, an era that in some way addresses or reflects or engages with those themes and problems (in this case, radical changes in how we view women's sexuality would render a re-make garbage, not to mention irrelevant and strange and pointless);
--- there are MORE writers today than there were in 1932; how about we give them a chance to create something original -- how about we give them a chance to create work that says something about the world of 2014?

And finally (and I'm not snarking, so please don't read it thus): If Brad and Angelina are your idea of great/powerful actors, I encourage you to broaden your horizons, to look beyond the most recent studio release.

[–] AssetsonFire 8 years ago

Rain was a remake. It even recycled footage from the original version.

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