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Virginie Ledoyen is HORRIBLE!!

posted 16 years ago by Kenny-70
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I swear her character in this movie (Norman's Wife) was the most annoying, badly acted, stupid, idiotic, selfish, 1-dimensional Female Character I have ever seen.
Everything she said, Every annoying look she gave, Everything she did just made my hate toward her grow as the movie progressed. She became almost unbearable towards the end when she was in rain screaming
"It's OVER, It's OVER, Put the gun down, NORMAN"!!".
I would have cheered out loud if Norman would have just pointed the shotgun at her face, and blew her freaking head off in slow-motion! Credits Roll.
Then maybe, just maybe, this might have been a good movie.
Otherwise, it seriously sucked major ball sackage.

Read the script before you sign-on, Gary, because you made a mistake.

[–] ptstannard 16 years ago

I agree that Ledoyen's acting is a little ropey in places during the film, but she sure as hell made up for it in looks. That there is some class eye candy.

And it's presumptuous to assume Oldman didn't read the script before signing on - of course he did, and probably liked what he read. It was a good film on the whole.

[–] Kenny-70 16 years ago

When I first started watching the movie, I will agree, I thought she was very attractive, but as the movie progressed...she slowly become uglier and uglier as she turned so freaking annoying. She always had something dumb to say, and she was way too submissive and was always shutting herself off from her hushband. She always would disagree with everybody, but never had a better idea to back up her disagreement. She didn't even attempt to fight back when the villager was going to rape her, she didn't even seem upset about it. Then her hushband saves her, and she isn't even grateful. She was complaining that he killed the villager.

[–] stan-devyatovsky 16 years ago

Kenny-70, I just finished watching the movie and I strongly agree with everything that you said in this thread. The movie would be so much better without this pretty but stupid and annoying doll.

[–] Kellza 16 years ago

I think she's good in her French films but she doesn't seem to do well when acting in English. She has the same blank look in this film that she had in her last English film The Beach. But she's very pretty and surprisingly looks as if she's hardly aged a bit.

[–] marthalorusso 16 years ago

kenny-70 I couldn't agree more. One huge reason to watch is remarkable acting of Gary O. This man gets better as he ages. Love him. And one big reason to not to watch is that annoying, hysterical, I-have-issues-to-resolve of this Virginie. My mother language is spanish and I LOVED Gary speaking it. (Despite it sounded as it is, an englishman speaking spanish). The film has a not very good script and has a terrible ending (In fact when Gary was executed, I was astonished and didn't want to still watching), but I did, and I was asking to myself why the script didn't include Gary not dying, and coming back to the house for saving his friends... but too late for saving that horrible woman of a terrible death. And of course I would like to know why the little girl embraces the old man at the end, if they got her in such a terrible condition, maybe he is her father, but treated her as an animal. Didn't get the end at all.

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[–] marthalorusso 16 years ago

Dead Man, that's was tough. (But funny, LOL). I was watching the extras in the DVD, making of, and Virginie said her character was rough and rude because she's unhappy, love ended between she and her husband and that makes her bitter. It looks that's a reason to be a b1tch. Still don't like her.

[–] yeley 16 years ago

I thought she was great. She acted distant. She was tired of her husband and tired of her life. It was good acting the way she made you really not like her. She wasn't a nice person. She was unhappy and it showed onscreen the way she treated her husband.

She is so good-looking and hard to not like....but she made you not like her....good acting.

[–] marthalorusso 16 years ago

I think what annoyed me the most is the fact that nothing really matters to her. Looks like she lives in her own island. (No man is an island... but she is!).

For example when she gets in the pub full of villagers, with her wet shirt (being conscious she will make an impression there), but she does it as the most normal thing, making her husband upset.

Then when one of the villagers attacked her, she didn't try to resist, or do something about it, she looks unmoved. Then Norman kills the man and she didn't look relief or (as Kenny70 well pointed) not even grateful.

But fact is, when I saw her in Behind the scenes, she really looks nice, I don't really hate Virginie, I can't stand her character, which was annoying, unsufferable, and horrible. So I guess I have to agree with you, HER ACTING WAS REALLY GOOD.

[–] yeley 16 years ago

She pulled off the cold-hearted bored wife perfectly. She didn't even act like she cared when she was about to be raped in front of her husband.

[–] C.S.Wood 15 years ago

I would have cheered out loud if Norman would have just pointed the shotgun at her face, and blew her freaking head off in slow-motion! Credits Roll.

I thought for sure that's what was going to happen and I would've liked the movie 100% more if that had happened.

If there's one thing I hate about a movie (mostly horror and thriller films) is if there is a very weak lead woman in it. I hated VL's character for being so weak and annoying, but I also kinda hated that other woman for just sitting there and not running over to grab one of the shotguns while VL's character was being assaulted and the other guy was upstairs getting the girl. She just sits there? There's not a knife in the kitchen she can grab? It's like The Strangers all over again!

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[–] iseepinkelefants 15 years ago

So her charcater's almost exactly like her character in "the Beach"? Let's hope the other poster's right and she is better in her French films, because no offense to her but I can't stand the characters she plays.

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[–] BBogus 14 years ago

Simple and short, she is just a horrible actress.

[–] ljones86-768-598858 14 years ago

Didn't any of you understand the subtext of emotions this character was going through? There is mention of a child dying (whether a miscarriage, still birth, cot death etc)? Only a woman could understand the desolation and emptiness of such a tragedy, so it hardly surprising that she may come across as subdued, depressed and a little robotic.

Also, who would be happy with a hapless dope of a husband she was tethered to?

The real vile character in the film (apart from the fat, sweaty rapist)was her husband, Norman. He is a clumsy coward in comparison to the leading male. Even when he showed half a back-bone by shooting the would be rapist, he confessed to his wife that it was more for himself than her!! He also shot a totally innocent, simpleton (Antonio) not in the heat of the moment, but quite deliberately.

Think before you judge. Then again, one would required a brain for this function.

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[–] SteveRes (488) 4 months ago

"I would have cheered out loud if Norman would have just pointed the shotgun at her face, and blew her freaking head off in slow-motion! Credits Roll."

For a split second I thought he was going to do this... then kill the Spaniard and maybe walk off into the woods with the girl. He'd broken bad, and it would have made a more interesting ending imo, instead of returning to his henpecked state and meekly surrendering to the villager.