ugolin is ugly

i liked the film. i just get distracted by ugly people. : D

i don't even think the actor is ugly, because i didn't even recognize that he was the same man that was in cache. i suppose he uglied it up for these two films.


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Watch the sequel (Manon des Sources). The actress who played the hunchback's daughter Manon (Emmanuelle Béart) after she's grown is *very* pretty, but don't take my word for it. Under "Trivia" in her bio, it says: "Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#32)."

The character of Ugolin is played by the same actor in both films. He has aged some in the sequel because it picks up the story years later. The aging is from makeup, not actual time, because these films were released in the same year. I thought it was a year or two later but imdb says no.

Look at Emmanuelle's bio, under "spouse," Daniel Auteuil (1993 - 1995) (divorced) 1 child. Daniel Auteuil is of course the actor who played Ugolin.

If being so ugly means the girl you get is Emmanuelle, where do I sign up? ;)

You may also be interested to know that the actors playing the couple (Jean de Florette and his wife Aimée) were married in real life. The above two were not married during filming but got married later and it lasted two years...these two were married from 1971-1996.

An exchange from here, adding the characters to clarify:
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/j/jean-de-florette-script-transcript.html

Jean: He's a good man.

Aimée: I don't like him.

Jean: Because he's ugly?

Aimée: Manon is afraid of him.

Jean: Manon, I'm surprised that you don't like that nice man.

Manon: He's ugly. He looks like a toad.

Jean: It's your thoughts that are ugly. Ugly exteriors often hide the purest souls.

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Ugolin wasn't bright. He was innocent and didn't mean to hurt anyone---that's why he cries when his friend Jean dies. But Papet had manipulated him with dreams of the flowers he knew Ugolin loved. Papet corrupted his soul.