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Calendar Events / Announcements '12 II / Re: Diabolique
« on: August 09, 2012, 02:07:12 PM »
Thanks Cousin for that gracious and engagingly detailed review, and of course, hats off to Uncle Roger for starting the thread.
David is also discussed at length in the VW roundtable. Which again makes it all the most intriguing that Angelique is barely discussed at all. One of the participants gives his opinion that Angelique in the OS was "clearly insane" when the events of the 1795 storyline unfolded--although I think she may have ended up with questionable sanity, I think her motives and inner world are pretty clearly shown in Parker's brilliant performance. No matter what I think of her novels, I *do think* Parker's performance as Angelique had touches of genius and deserves more credit than fans seem to give it. None of the other actresses who have played Angelique (in what I have seen--I *have seen* several clips of Eva Green) comes close to what Parker did in the role. Of course the part was very well written, particularly in 1795.
G.
David is also discussed at length in the VW roundtable. Which again makes it all the most intriguing that Angelique is barely discussed at all. One of the participants gives his opinion that Angelique in the OS was "clearly insane" when the events of the 1795 storyline unfolded--although I think she may have ended up with questionable sanity, I think her motives and inner world are pretty clearly shown in Parker's brilliant performance. No matter what I think of her novels, I *do think* Parker's performance as Angelique had touches of genius and deserves more credit than fans seem to give it. None of the other actresses who have played Angelique (in what I have seen--I *have seen* several clips of Eva Green) comes close to what Parker did in the role. Of course the part was very well written, particularly in 1795.
G.