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Witherspoon miscast

posted 15 years ago by onepotato2
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She just kind of makes Becky sincere in every scene. The movie ends up being rather unshaped, and the energy just wheezes out of it.

Becky is a schemer. Miriam Hopkins had more fun with the role in 1935. And I guess you could count Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara, since Margaret Mitchell had one eye on Vanit Fair as she wrote GWTW.

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[–] Mike1388 10 years ago

I like Reese here. She is not as scheming as the Becky in the novel, true, but she is fun to watch and her character is humanize and appealing to me.