Dangerous Liaisons - Valmont/Merteuil - The One I Can't Deny
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- ► fandom: Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
► pairing: Vicomte de Valmont/Marquise de Merteuil
► song: • Ocean Jet - Cold
Frears and Hampton's version of Dangerous Liaisons always seemed miraculously beautiful to me. Miraculously, because all the characters are evidently bad persons (yes, including Tourvel) and any kind of beauty is merged with vociferous cruelty.
And yet - such an exquisite use of all the luxury that XVIII century can give to cinema; such a brilliant perfomance that however much you hate the character they don't annoy you; such a carefully chosen focus.
The plot has changed immensely with Merteuil and Valmont moved from their twenties to late thirties - this shift gives such an improved atmosphere, so much more meaning than the original story of fools hurrying towards their own destruction with adolescent ardor. Also there's really no need for smallpox to punish Merteuil, if anything, this illness diminishes the dramatic bitterness of the finale, while in the film the balance is perfect - she craved to play the game of manipulation, but she hadn't realised how many ways there were to lose.
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This movie is so great... the acting, the costumes, the surroundings... and this video captures the very essence of it
Thank you! ^^ I'm very glad if I managed to make a proper tribute to the beauty of this cinematic masterpiece.
The nobility in Paris was rich, vain and had a lot of hands on their time.In Germany there is a saying that being idle is the beginning of starting cruel things.How true.
Alot of time on their hands...yes
i do love you so much for always creating such unique and gorgeous videos. your work is astonishing!
Thank you so much for your kindness and your inspiring comments! ♥♥♥
Yeah the true love story of this movie is between Valmont and Merteuil. Idk why so much wave around Tourvel. She is just a small oasis of a sort of innocence in a swamp of women with questionable morals...that he anyways want to corrupt and devoid of that innocence.
The unresolved love of the movie is in fact the one between Merteuil and Valmont. She is so hurt and he is so desperately wanting her back (not for one night). He does literally everything she demands. Ad litteram. He went and broke up with Tourvel at the subtle request of Merteuil reproducing at litteram what she wanted.
I wish i saw a happy end between them but...as she said "vanity and happiness are not compatible".
Yes, and yes again. Totally agree about all that, except for happy ending, because they've never done anything to deserve happiness. Merteuil's reasons for being cruel are much more understandable and "ordinary" than Valmont's (oh that brilliant monologue of hers ♥), but still what they did most of the time was ruining lifes, so I find it hard to picture them finally demonstrating some -conscience- emotional restraint for the sake of being together.
But yes, their love story is the very nerve of the movie, and it's bitter to see how vanity wins over the sincerest human connection either of them ever had.
@@QuietParanoiac Well yes, they dont deserve, but if they found happines into each other maybe they would have stopped their mischevious plans hitting at those around themselves.
At the end of the movie i was tempted to say that the saying "vanity and happiness are not compatible" caught Merteuil from behind. Yet, she had been repeating several times across the movie that certain person would be totally devoted to her and it was highlighted once again by Valmont at the end when he talked about the devotion of the young boy (i guess only to emphasize for the viewer how important that thing was to her, like giving the key into which to understand the story, and in fact she was having herself one single lover at time, right? exclusivity. she was like that). I guess Merteuil had been expecting Valmont to become this, i think she was mostly keen to see him in this shape for her (and at a certain point i nearly believed him, when he said he wanted to "come back home" - i was like, yeah, this is it, go on, go on!! 😅-, and i think she also wanted to believe him, her peaceful closing eyes when he hugged-kissed her when he said that.... ), but then he rendered himself hopeless when he acknowledged seconds later that he was still having things "beyond his control" (ofc the infatuation with Tourvel would have gone at a certain point, but another one would have taken its place not because there are many astonishing women around but because HE was having a problem: his own self control). Ofc for Merteuil was clear there was absolutely no hope, no need to get drunk with cold water, "illusions are sweet by their nature", sigh.
In a way i understood her frustration, she wanted his devotion and he couldnt offer it, he was indirectly proposing another scenario than what she wanted.
But sad, indeed, how vanity and cruelty win. Dramatic.
But the question is: should be considered vanity not to wish a man who is not ready to give you total devotion? To betray your feelings for him, while loving him in spite of all his faults and your complaints to say NO because he is not ready to be devoted? Is this even vanity? I dont know what to say...
However, i was dying to see them kissing, at least once. Once! At least kissing if not more 😂 It seemed to me they really had a chemistry. The juiciest and pulsatig of passion scenes of the movie are still the ones between they two, not between him and Tourvel (or at least for me was more entertaining to see them two).
Yesssss
MASTERPIECE!!
Thank you! ♥
Finally the nitty gritty of the love affair thst could not be. Damn unrequited love hurts!
It sure does! T_T These two are such an awfully perfect and perfectly awful example of people ruining their own chances of happiness.
Nice edit!
wow
♥️♥️♥️ у меня совсем нет слов, тут прекрасно все
Рада, если мне удалось передать красоту фильма) Спасибо! ♥
@@QuietParanoiac удалось. Я видела экранизацию с Фертом и вот смотрю и понимаю, что не ту экранизацию я смотрела. Глен Клоуз и Малькович ♥️
@@redsquirrel2192 Ох, да. В смысле, Формановского "Вальмона" с Фёртом я могу очень долго ругать (начиная прямо с Фёрта - он, безусловно, актёр прекрасный, но это феерический мискаст на Вальмона-из-романа, Фёрт даже не попытался себя переломить и отыграть что-то убедительное); именно как экранизацию фильм Фрирза хорошим назвать трудно, потому что Шодерло де Лакло свой роман в такой версии едва ли опознал бы, но как самостоятельное произведение (или как экранизация пьесы Хэмптона) - замечательно поставлено, снято и смонтировано. И выбор актёров на главные роли действительно во многом общий успех постановки определил)
What's the music track playing? I really like it.