#Choderlos De Laclos

[in-love-with-movies]

Cruel Intentions (1999)

[addictivecontradiction]

Dangerous liaisons, 1988

[dullyn]

Going insane writing an essay on comparing the Marquise de Merteuil (Dangerous Liaisons) and the Vicomtesse de Beausésant (Père Goriot). I want to talk about so so much but I do not want to subject my poor professor to like ten pages of writing about women's roles in society and how they are villainized.

Cause Merteuil deserves her villainization, as she is quite literally a sadist in the barebones definition of the term, however, she is in fact a product of her society. Just like how Beausésant has the opportunity to turn bad and rebuff against society, in fact all of Parisian society comes to the ball to watch her be humiliated by her lover's marriage, yet she is seen as noble because instead she retires to the countryside forever.

It really is giving: you are given two options when forced to exist in such a society. With one character turning bitter against the system she is forced into (shoutout to stabbing yourself with a fork to control your facial expressions), and the other accepts her humiliation and decides to suffer from what society has done to her (d'Ajuda count your days bro).

Meanwhile Merteuil is the main figure in Dangerous Liaisons while Beausésant is just a background plot while Rastignac is realizing his girlfriend is actually the worst.

[theoscarsproject]

Valmont (1989). France before 1789: When a widow hears that her lover is to marry her cousin's daughter, she asks the playboy Valmont to take the girl's virginity. But first she bets him, with her body as prize, to seduce a virtuous, young, married woman.

One day I'll rate all the Dangerous Liaisons movies and this will probably be in the lower half unfortunately. Annette Bening seems to be having a lot of fun though at least, but weirdly I don't really buy Colin Firth here? Costumes are great though! 5/10.

[90smovies]

[girlzoot]

I shall try to make myself clear, which is not easy with you when once you have made up your mind to misunderstand. —Choderlos de Laclos/Les Liaisons Dangereuses

[notsodumbww2captain]

If you support women’s wrongs, you better believe in Marquise De Merteuil Supremacy.

[none-ofthisnonsense]

Oh et puis merde je vais quand même lire Les liaisons dangereuses

[amor-barato]

O verdadeiro modo de vencer os escrúpulos é não deixar nada a perder a quem os tem. A maior parte dos homens só fazem grandes males por causa dos escrúpulos que lhes provocam os pequenos.

Choderlos de Laclos (Ligações Perigosas)

yeah!

[didanagy]

DANGEROUS LIAISONS (1988)

dir. stephen frears

[addictivecontradiction]

Dangerous liaisons, 1988

[herenowandelsewhere]

Les Liaisons Dangereuses, RSC, The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1985, adapted by Christopher Hampton, directed by Howard Davies

Lindsay Duncan as the Marquise de Merteuil and Alan Rickman as the Vicomte de Valmont

[derangedrhythms]

Leave me alone, leave me in the darkness; it is the darkness that becomes me.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, from 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses', tr. Ernest Dowson

[cuculoooo]

First post here! It's a fanart of two characters from a book I'm reading, their relationship isn't great but it's definitely the healthiest in the book.

[aedislumen]

The most fundamental lesson that Liaisons Dangereuses taught me is that evil often comes from boredom and having too much free time.