I've liked her in every other show. She was just miscast here and the character was badly written for the movie. When I read the book, I was picturing Nadine as Jennifer Jones, the woman who was in The Song of Bernadette. Have you ever seen that movie? I pictured her as pure and virginal; she was like a sacrificial virgin. But in the miniseries, they combined the Nadine character with the Rita character--the middle-aged socialite drug addict who accidentally killed herself while Larry was helping her out of New York. It wasn't a good combination. And they gave Nadine's good qualities to the woman that Larry eventually got together with--Lucy, I think.
So anyway, Laura San Giacomo pissed me off on several levels, none of which had anything to do with her. It was the writing and the directing and the fact that if Hollywood is going to eliminate or drastically alter a character in the transition from book to movie, it's nearly always a female character.
The same thing happened to Hermione in the first Harry Potter movie. It would've taken them about five minutes to do the scene with the logic test with the poisons, but they decided to spend more time on the chess game and Ron and completely left out Hermione's contribution to that part of the quest and turned her into a sort of cheerleader for Harry in that scene. grrrr! Fortunately, they've done pretty well by that character in the rest of the movies.
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2/6/08 06:58 am (UTC)So anyway, Laura San Giacomo pissed me off on several levels, none of which had anything to do with her. It was the writing and the directing and the fact that if Hollywood is going to eliminate or drastically alter a character in the transition from book to movie, it's nearly always a female character.
The same thing happened to Hermione in the first Harry Potter movie. It would've taken them about five minutes to do the scene with the logic test with the poisons, but they decided to spend more time on the chess game and Ron and completely left out Hermione's contribution to that part of the quest and turned her into a sort of cheerleader for Harry in that scene. grrrr! Fortunately, they've done pretty well by that character in the rest of the movies.
Okay, I'm off my soapbox now.