Keira Knightly Strains Period Piece Patience With The Duchess

There are only two truly great pre-1900 period films: Gone With The Wind and Dangerous Liasons. The rest are either cute (Emma, The Prides And Prejudices) annoying (Marie Antoinette) or walk-out-of-the-theater dull (like, everything else). In the trailer for Keira Knightly's upcoming The Duchess, Knightly plays an innocent young girl with pretty dresses who marries into royalty and gets caught up in its politics, and must be headstrong and ahead of her time and rebellious to get the love she deserves or whatever. I avoid period films like the plague (get it, the plague?) and I've still seen this movie at least fifteen times:

Keira Knightly, this is your last movie like this for the next ten years. You're very good at it, with your quivery mouth and upper class accent, but it's time to take some risks. Call up Tarantino or something.

Posted by Lindsay at 11:30 AM in Chick Flicks, Trailer
Tags: Keira Knightly | The Duchess

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She tried to take risks once and we ended up with "Domino." Probably best she sticks to what she knows.

Posted by: Stella at 07/22/08 12:37 PM  | Reply
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she needs to not call up Tony Scott again, though. That Domino mess was dorky + an exercise in seizure-vision.

Posted by: smashleigh at 07/22/08 12:44 PM  | Reply
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And another Tony Scott movie will solve that? Have you ever seen another Tony Scott movie?

Posted by: Eli!  in reply to  smashleigh's comment at 07/23/08 2:23 AM  | Reply
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i disagree - domino was saved by the extreme hotness that is edgar ramirez.
who cares about kiera when you have him to look at

Posted by: nicole at 07/22/08 1:01 PM  | Reply
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rich women are rarely actually loved by the people. and rich people arguing over fancy dinners prepared by most likely extremely poor hired help about freedom and deomocracy is always painfully obnoxious at best. why the fuck is it that every time they make a movie about rabble rousing and freedom it always turns into a movie about some spoiled rich girl finding love? vomit.

Posted by: bree at 07/22/08 1:09 PM  | Reply
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Ugh. Go back to Russia.

Posted by: Eli!  in reply to  bree's comment at 07/23/08 2:21 AM  | Reply
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what about the Age of Innocence by Scorsese? haven't seen it, but supposedly it's good.

Posted by: Jonathon at 07/22/08 1:57 PM  | Reply
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That's exhibit A.

Posted by: Lindsay  in reply to  Jonathon's comment at 07/22/08 2:37 PM  | Reply
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Um... hello? Amadeus??

Posted by: dudarino at 07/22/08 3:50 PM  | Reply
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Ahhhh, and Amadeus. And Amadeus. Of course.

Posted by: Lindsay  in reply to  dudarino's comment at 07/22/08 6:37 PM  | Reply
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Amadeus is a musical and musicals don't count.

Well, it's not *really* a musical, but it sort of almost is.

Posted by: dyb at 07/22/08 4:27 PM  | Reply
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I liked Sense and Sensibility. only movie i've ever liked Hugh Grant in. and Gone with the Wind is the shit. Best movie to watch when bummed.

Posted by: Alex at 07/22/08 11:20 PM  | Reply
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I don't think Keira Knightly lives in our time. She time travels to star in our films. If you tried to have her play a modern character she'd get confused, all this crazy slang and technology. Computers frighten her.

Posted by: icanread at 07/23/08 1:45 AM  | Reply
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She was actually quite great in Love Actually.

Posted by: Sammy  in reply to  icanread's comment at 07/23/08 11:22 AM  | Reply
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