#marquise de merteuil

[didanagy]

DANGEROUS LIAISONS (1988)

dir. stephen frears

[lady-arryn]

DANGEROUS LIAISONS costumes appreciation: 15/15 (costume design by James Acheson)

[queerquaintrelle]

No one:

Still no one:

Me, presently:

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas dresses tournament: Blue dresses Round 1- Group C: Caroline Penvenen, Poldark vs Isabelle de Merteuil, Dangerous liaisons (gifset)

Propaganda for Isabelle's dress (written by submitters):

This dress is a darker recreation of the famous dress worn by Madame de Pompadour in this portrait by François Boucher:

my god. this dress....this! dress! *incoherent screeching* THIS!!!!! DRESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

[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.

[morfyddclarkdaily]

Morfydd Clark Playing Cécile Volanges for National Theatre Live Scene from the play “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”

◼ Morfydd Daily

[lightofwintersun]

I can't help but see the parallels

When I came out into society, I was fifteen. I already knew that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. <..>. I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think, and novelists to see what I could get away with. And in the end, I distilled everything to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.

[meerawrites]

Antagonist

@writeblrgarden

I do not talk about him a lot because the Marquise de Merteuil takes up so much room in the story and narrative and is such a driving force of manipulation and libertineism (affectionate and derogatory) and bisexuality-biromanticism, but, for your viewing pleasure, the Vicomte de Valmont, the notorious bi blackguard being the worst man on earth.

[historicalreusedcostumes]

This gown with flowers on is worn on Glenn Close as Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and many years later altred worn on an ekstra in a dream in Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight 2 (2021)

[brechtian]

marquise de merteuil would’ve done numbers at the bdsm club

[vidiadal]

— Your face looks familiar to me. Have we met before?

— No, this is the first time I've seen you.

— You have a mole under your left shoulder blade.

— Nothing will be hidden from your attentive gaze.

— Yes, I know you from head to toe.

— And how many do I have?

— Five. Ah, Madame de Merteuil, we definitely know each other.

— For me, all men in tuxedos with butterflies are the same.

— I was without them that time. I can take it off.

[lady-arryn]

DANGEROUS LIAISONS costumes appreciation: 11/∞ (costume design by James Acheson)

[notsodumbww2captain]

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

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas dresses tournament: Blue dresses Round 2- Group C: Duchess d’Antan, Impromptu vs Isabelle de Merteuil, Dangerous liaisons (gifset)

Propaganda for Isabelle's dress (written by submitters):

This dress is a darker recreation of the famous dress worn by Madame de Pompadour in this portrait by François Boucher:

my god. this dress....this! dress! *incoherent screeching* THIS!!!!! DRESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

[medusas-daughter]

might fuck around and reread Les Liaisons Dangereuses because no film or adaptation of the Marquise de Merteuil will ever come close to reading her thoughts directly written at length by her own hands

[tagarfa-art]

Repostober, day 2: Marquise de Merteuil from the novel written by Choderlos de Laclos “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”.