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Prouix the architect and Simone, with SPOILERS

posted 17 years ago by AdriCraw
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I loved that subplot! Good on Simone, for running away with the gorgeous young architect, rather than staying with the abusive Doctor! He raped her on their wedding night and wanted to keep her as a bird in a guilded cage. Also, who else thought Stephen Moyer, who plays Prouix was really lovely? What a good choice Simone made, to further her sexual education with him! I wish they had shown more of what happens to them at the end of the movie. They said they were running away to England together, but you don't see them again after that.

[–] Skipp10467 17 years ago

i agree

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[–] AdriCraw 17 years ago

On the whole, I thought the movie was quite OTT and silly, and a lot of the acting was pretty shrill, actually. Still, I managed to enjoy it, in a guilty pleasure kind of way.

[–] mheartoftheocean-1 17 years ago

Oh man! that was awesome!

[–] MarbleIndex01 16 years ago

What does OTT stand for?

[–] TheCheshireCody 16 years ago

What does OTT stand for?
It took me a minute to figure it out (I'm not up on the slang of the younger generation :-P ), but I think it stands for Over The Top.

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[–] MarbleIndex01 17 years ago

It neatly paralles the plot of Sade's novel "Justine," in which an innocent young girl learns that virtue doesn't pay. Very effective (and hot) subplot.

[–] AdriCraw 17 years ago

Thanks for that info on Justine! I haven't read it, so it's good to know there was a literary reference in the Simone-Prouix subplot. I should've guessed, really!

[–] ali-babble 17 years ago

I don't think that it was used enough. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the last time we see Simone, or at least her bedroom is when the Doctor finds the Marquis' novel that she's been reading. It's like the story was used when it fitted the thematic elements of the story and dropped as soon as it was no longer needed. It might've been interesting to see what Royer-Collard did to the architect, and maybe even Simone for their little liasons.

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[–] x-caitlin-x 17 years ago

The last time on this subplot is when the doctor finds the novel. but I think that worked. Simone had already left with the architect by the time he finds that, and there's no reason to think he would have been able to find them. I like to think they got away - of course, the doctor may have found them, but if he did, I don't think what he did to them would be relevant to the main plot. I would consider it gratuitous violence and I think, despite the gore in this film, the film-makers were pretty successful at avoiding anything really gratuitous.

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[–] nimbleweevil 16 years ago

I LOVED Simone. She got a much bigger plot than she did in the play (when she was Marguerite), and she reminded me quite a bit of me.

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[–] ladybelacqua 16 years ago

kind of makes you think what the hell those nuns were teaching, to produce such a manipulative girl. i'm not saying she should have stayed with the doctor, but it was damn cold to make him order the most expensive stuff for the house and then leave.

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[–] sailingcat10 16 years ago

A-men! I was cheering for Simone when she and Prioux were together. I had a feeling that would happen when they first met each other. And yes, Prioux was really really cute! I wished I could've been in Simone's shoes when they were together.

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[–] kitten_red 15 years ago

not seen quills yet. but he is really yummy as Bill in 'true blood' in an older guy kind of way...

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[–] furienna 14 years ago

It was really good, that Simone got away from that scumbag, but I would have liked to see him suffer more that that. When the abbé tried to strangle him in the last scene, I was so disappointed, when he failed to do it.

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[–] venusthrow 12 years ago

I liked her subplot but I wish that we got a more detailed look at her life. Don't get me wrong the husband was a jerk but he didn't seem that much crueler than other rich men with young wives at the time (doing their duty in bed) maybe more of a look into her gilded cage where the husband keeps her completely from the outside world.

[–] sarizonana 12 years ago

I loved that couple and I loved Simone alone as well

She was smarter than everyone thought she was.
It's funny how innocent she looks but how she devoured the pages of the Marquis's novel Justine and how much she enjoyed the play.

It would have been a nice gesture from her to send the marquis a letter and the material he needed to keep writing.