By Hope Davis
Rita Hayworth and “Gilda” (1946) were my first loves of 1940s cinema and film noir. Hayworth, my favorite old Hollywood star and the lock screen on my phone, secured her “bombshell” status in this film.
This role has cemented Hayworth as an icon of its decade and the “femme fatale” archetype. I found Hayworth captivating from my first watch, and while I don’t pretend to be a great judge of acting, I think her performance brings humanity to Gilda’s otherwise villainized character. This is not a feminist movie, but I indulge in my own feminist interpretation or reclamation of it.
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Naturally, such a literary hit required a star-studded movie adaptation and Hollywood duly obliged. A few tweaks were made, most notably the book’s London setting shifted across the Atlantic, but, with an ensemble that included Lisa Kudrow, Edgar Ramirez, Allison Janney, Luke Evans, Hayley Bennett, Justin Theroux and Rebecca Ferguson, and Emily Blunt in the lead, large returns were expected upon the film’s release in October 2016. However, while Blunt received plenty of praise for her performance, including a Bafta nomination, and its $170m haul was almost four times its budget, its execution left many critics cold, with descriptions ranging from “exploitative melodrama” to “shiny trash” and “a flat and suspense-free tale of pretty people in peril”.
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Rosamund Pike really enjoys shocking people with her dark and vicious roles.
The British actress won critical acclaim for her portrayal of scheming wife Amy Dunne in the 2014 thriller Gone Girl, and is currently starring in the black comedy-drama I Care a Lot as the cunning legal guardian Marla Grayson.
Pike knows audiences will compare her two performances, and she confessed she relishes playing antiheroines. I certainly enjoyed returning to the stage where I can enjoy darkly and sort of satirically shocking people, I suppose. I do think they would be two interesting women to get in a room together. I don t think they would like each other very much at all, she told EW.