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Hermione now Betsy in NAPOLEON & BETSY!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I saw much celebrating in talkbacks recently... seems a whole lot of people were... let's say enthusiastic about Ms. Emma Watson turning 18 years old. Yeah, that's our group alright...
Anyway, now they can enjoy her completely guilt-free in a non-Harry Potter film. She's just replaced Scarlett Johansson in NAPOLEON & BETSY about a young woman who falls in love with Napoleon as he is exiled on the small British Island of St. Helena.
The film is written by Benjamin Ross (RKO 281) who will also direct. All jokes aside, this could make for a fascinating drama and a great chance for Watson to break out of being only Hermione for the rest of her career. Thoughts?
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You know - if fantasising over teenagers is your bag, I'm sure there are plenty of other places you can go. Anyway: who the hell is playing NAPOLEON? And aren't his ST HELENA days a bit dull - in ELBA at least he was planning a comeback. Oh well.
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Apr 18, 2008 5:19:52 AM CDT
I'm sure there's a way to link invading Russia with her 18th bir
by alcevious
It's on the tip of my tongue, but I just can't figure it out.
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Where can I pre-order my ticket?
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emma's had two years of legalness, no need to get all excited over her turning 18. Other than that you could get her drunk now i suppose.
Anyway, bit young to play a girl falling in love with napolean? Wouldn't he have been pretty old? ANd he wasn't famed for being attractive. -
....I can see the cover art already.
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She's probably the only one of the Potter kids who will have a career after that fuckin franchise is over and done with (that's if Rowling doesn't write more books. And, trust me, she will). But hey, I love RKO 281, so bring it on.
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Maybe it won't be, but I'll bet on that it is going to be a complete borefest.
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movie billoard advertising the movie Napoleon. You got it, Danny Devito/Martin Benedict (that was his name in Shorty right) was the title character.
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Young woman falls in love with imprisoned non-conformist ie DeSade.
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You better tell Harry and the rest of the gang.
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I got no idea why she still gets work. Yeah, she was in LOST IN TRANSLATION, which was a pretty good movie, but that doesn't mean that she is a good or charismatic actress.
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...is that if you read the book, the character of 'Martin Weir' is CLEARLY Tom Cruise. But, of course, when making the movie they could NEVER get away with that level of obvious slander, so they needed to change the character to a genuinely short person. Someone like, say, Danny De Vito. Thus robbing the movie of its central point of satire.
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Her classical training and work ethic.
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I think Elmore Leonard said Weir was based on Dustin Hoffman.
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Let me be the lone voice of sanity and say that I'm glad Ms.Watson is *ahem* maturing...as an actress. Sure, we like to fumble all over ourselves as though we were coming back to Hogwarts from summer vaccation to find Hermoine had...you know...changed (greatest SNL sketch ever) but at least she's not (hopefully) going the overwrought "Behold I'm doing a nude scene in a play" the young Mr.Potter has done in an attempt to get adult cred.
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She's got lots of personality and a natural charm--she could easily turn into the British Julia Roberts if she gets the right kinds of parts.We shouldn't underestimate the significance of her work in the Potter flicks--she and Alan Rickman completely inhabited their parts, and hers was one of the most crucial to get right.I agree with some others above that Johansson is overrated.
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It's a bit of a huge jump between Scarlett Johanson and Emma Watson, right?? She's like 6 years older than her for a start. That's proof they just want hype, and Scarlett doesn't attract hype any more.
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"Girls only want boyfriends with skills. Like numchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills"
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Wouldn't stop me from fucking her up the arse until she bleeds though.
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I saw an interview with around the time the last HP film came out. She was pretty down on the whole acting thing. Talking about how Ron and Harry were all into it and doing summer theater and she was looking forward to going to college and moving on to something else. Guess they wrote her a nice paycheck.
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Seriously though, she is hardly a celeb never mind a star. You would think some producer or director would have grown the balls to tell her to keep her fucking eyebrows still for a couple of minutes. She was the most promising talent in HP3 then totally screwed the last 2 films up for me with her eyebrow action/excessive shouting. She takes me out of every single scene that she is in. She is far too OTT, that's all.
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My Lips hurt real bad!
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That is all.
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Randy lion falls in love with prepubescent Jodie Foster (circa 1972). Hubba-hubba-hubba! Okay, it was a G-Disney and the lion wasn't randy. I'm such a Hinkley.
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then I realized the article wasn't about Heloise and Abelard... shit. I guess I should start reading comic books.
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Apr 19, 2008 12:16:01 PM CDT
Who'd have thought out of the two chicks in Ghost World...
by biggusdickus
...that the worst actress would go on to have the more successful career?Bizarre.
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I think it's great that she's moving on and trying to get away from the Hermione image, though I thought she never was Hermione to begin with. And like what someone above said, at least she is not doing nude scenes with a horse. And please be mature!
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