"It's Beyond My Control!"

[ariellezen]

The film is based on the novel by French Choderlos de Laclos. The original sentence is "Ce n'est pas ma faute". So, for your information,Moijdl,  it's not a translation into French but the other way round. "It's beyond my control" is actually the English translation...

[fatizoo1000]

That's why Michelle Pfeiffer was nominated for Best supporting actress.

[albanais100]

ducobu



[BusinessButterfly]

what an asshole!!! omg... (tears)

[mikelefferts]

Great scene.  Awesome Picture.

[Primetiime32]

damn.... she got replaced...

[mariatechnosux]

To the "several other women" Christopher Johnson IV bragged on Twitter about bedding behind my back: here is the man, the cheat, the liar. OohChrisDavid, "it's beyond my control". And yes, "it's that woman", Mariana Tosca, the Marquise Merteuil of this story, who approves of and helps him cover up his psychopathic serial abuse of women. Luckily, the Tourvel's of this day and age have internet access. Ladies, you are hereby warned.

[MissSixtiesPennyLane]

Everytime I watch the pain in Monseiur Vicomte de Valmont's eyes, the deep breaths he has to take to be able to say these things to her, his voice, his eyes........................ I CUM!!!..... it's beyond my conbtrol!! ;P

[MissSixtiesPennyLane]

OOOOH! MR MALKOSEXY!!! 

[reemar62]

the best scene ....

[citizenlen]

I love when he says It's beyond my control, but couldn't finish it as if he was losing his breath.

[trashkwekwe]

All the actors are great in this movie, but Malkovich is simply astonishing here!

[moijdl]

Really unfortunate how it is translated into French. It isn't my fault is not the same as it's beyond my control.

[lylisse230]

@moijdl This scene comes from a French book, you know... "It's not my fault" is the original line.

[kkarls1]

You can tell that he REALLY does not want to do this...he keeps repeating "it's beyond my control" but you can see his mouth quivering and his voice cracking at times. He literally has to look away from her at certain points because he can't bear to see the pain that he's causing her (and him). Then he tries to make her hate him by being physically rough with her. Heartbreaking. Brilliant acting by Malkovich, Michelle plays the heartbroken mistress well.

[Ravenprpl]

I agree with MyExquisitePoison.......

[ISPANOS2001]

like real men do...

[TheFatherPharaoh]

I simply love this scene...it's beyond my control.

[TheHiroshina]

@TheFatherPharaoh but he says it so many times that it gets a bit annoying

[deborahaaranson]

ce n'est pas ma faute!!!! lol j'aime ce film

[squashedtomato]

The only weakness in this film- a lapse in the direction really-is it never made clear why Tourvel being so happy in her marriage falls so utterly for Valmont to the point she actualy died of a broken heart. Ok they married for convience then..but had she not really loved her husband its not much of a conquest really. And I think they should have addressed that to make the film more believeable. You can see before Valmont does that he's in love with her..but not the other way.

[arhavlisj]

A great powerful scene...he adored her but broke up because of the Markese's mind games....in the end they both died for love...Love does not end after a break up or after one stops seeing or being with another...it would be easy if that happened.

Love does not die.It is there to haunt torment ruin one who denies or defies it....

[Messylin]

Michelle Pfeiffer had the most difficult role to play in this film. A woman that gives up everything of herself and then is thrown into the chasm!

[Lovelyontheskin]

Powerful scene. It broke my heart. :(

[FearlessUntamed]

Best.lines.ever.

[jfcemporium]

its beyond his control

[latitejujudepari]

Don't forget the movie is an adaptation of a french book called Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and in this book, we don't know if Valmont is in love with Tourvel. The real sentence is not "It is beyond my control" but "it is not my fault". Stefen Frears changed the end of the movie.

[LusciousQueen01]

@latitejujudepari

I believe Valmont loves her in the book as well, the way he talks about her, and that would explain why he let Danceny kill him. Besides, 'it's beyond my control' is a great and powerful translation, in this context, for "ce n'est pas ma faute". :)

[Wendolyyyynnnnnnn]

Sweet mother of God... What we do for pride...

[ThePSYCHOChannel]

He's such a na asshole and plays it so well too...LOL

[CrazyGood88]

Couldn't she see that he is trying to tell her something?!

[MUSICAETERNANYC]

Something very cute about his lips...

[CrazyGood88]

@MUSICAETERNANYC Its john malcovich sweetheart...his mouth will enthrall you.

[Ragabeubeu]

it's so sad ! What good actors !

[lolaGReaper]

Best actor ever!

[Ogchlosome]

wow beyond coldblooded.. i would have bashed his head in. especially after he pushed me down and pulled my hair like that.. what a massive douchebag..

[maryjacey]

absolutely brilliant acting by malkovich. every line is performed with different inclination and tone. you can see the pain in his eyes too, which makes it easier to watch this heartbreaking scene

[XxXLadyDarkXx]

I was just reading this scene, and couldn't stop myself from watching this again. It is a great book, and this is a wonderful adaptation. You can't find faithful, quality-filled adaptations like this one anymore.

[thornygravy]

I fucked my nipples in the parking lot, it was beyond my control.

[SyrianeKT]

J'ai du sang sur mes doigts...

[MaxwellsDemon9]

Such brutality. I found it difficult to watch the first time. Stellar movie.

[ramonagarnet]

This just really happened to me a week ago, with a man i think is better looking than John Malkovich, after 6.5 years. I am like the Michele P character and a devout christian. I felt like i had been shot. I am not sure if it was " an act " on his part, because in my heart i know. I am not going to let this kill me. I do not see how he is going to live with himself. Watching this is CATHARSIS to me...emotional release.

[MsTilscher]

@ramonagarnet ... 'This too will pass.' ....x x x

[BlackLily888]

@ramonagarnet this happened to me last week....hope you feel better....

[Adevirett]

The book by Choderlos de Laclos is such a masterpiece!

And this is the best of all adaptations!

[GoatseObama]

Lol this should be a mac commercial

[nigthlord74]

OMG i use that phrase one time and....

i dont broke whit the girl hehehehe XD

she broke whit me later XD ..damn it¡¡¡

[selfidentity1]

this is soo funny!!! thanks for posting!

[1415gateway]

saw it when i was young, still powerful, and passionate

[LEEKIMHOUNG]

omg .. still love MIchelle Pfeiffer ;)

[Maripose212]

que patrao ...

[Amangewa]

Soooo damn hot! <3

Beyond my control.

[cendrillo0]

He seems so sorry... I still remember whenI saw the film, I had butterflies in my stomach! Even if it seems ridiculous, this scene is really touching when you enjoyed the movie.

And so dramatic when you know the end! Ah... Loved it! ^^

[Dogos73]

HEART BREAKING!!!!!

[lalulubunny]

@Solesole16- read the book. Or watch the movie in it's entirety. You're misinformed and it's really worth the effort to read it. I know you'd be fascinated by the plot. It's a brilliant story. THEN when you watch it, this scene will be even more devastating than it already seems..:)

[CzyRyan]

Brilliant movie, brilliant book...

[stapleshot85]

*yawn* the escapades of an aimless toff

[PapaLoris]

You can hear the part of this film in Mylène Farmer's song ''Beyond my control ;-)

[nihon0019]

This is the kind of behavior I think we should teach to our children.

[midsummergirl]

Heartbreaking scene.

[crowleysridgegirl]

"Stop it,don't keep saying that!!!"

That is all he could think to say.

[kipale78]

He was told to repeat the same sentence over and over again.

But it really is like "it's not you, it's me" and "I love you too much". This kind of empty excuses, you know?

[solesole16]

I think he's saying the contrary, actually. :) Not "it's not you, it's me" but "my love has difficulties lasting your vertue" = What he really wanted was...well, sex. Now that he got it, he's not interested in her anymore. And when he says "It's beyond my control", he's saying it's men's nature to be like this, so that she shouldn't be reproaching him anything.

[kipale78]

Have you seen the movie at all?

[solesole16]

I admit I've only seen parts of it. But I read the book, studied it and we spend a lot of time on this part, when he breaks up, and he says exactly the same here than in the book. But please, explain your point of view and tell me why I'm wrong.

[solesole16]

*we spent, sorry

[kipale78]

He is saying what he has been told to tell her.

To repeat an empty sentence that doesn't mean anything, to make her suffer and consume Glenn Close's revenge. But in reality he is in love with her. That's the tragedy, So, in a sense, it really is 'beyond his control'. He is in Glenn Closes's control.

I studied the book years ago, so i don't really remember it that well. But the movie is another 'entity', to be understood in itself. Just watch the whole movie! It's a masterpiece.

cheers!

[eliten100]

@kipale78 Glen Close's control??? hahaha

[lightminOu]

@solesole16 ; No :)

Valmont vas in love with Tourvel. But he has been manipulated by Merteuil, who forced him to leave Tourvel, by saying that being is love is a cowardice for a libertine ... He's in love with tourvel, but he left her to keep his "pride".

( I'm french. Sorry for my English. )

[selfidentity1]

Yup, I read the book and is actually quite funny the way Valmont letters reveal his love without he noticing it. And Merteuil seems even more twisted than in the film! Very funny plot!

[flippadeal]

It isn't simply pride that drives him its ideology. Libertines didn't believe in love, they believed in things that went against the bibles values which included love so, confused and utterly lost and feeling that he has betrayed himself, he believes merteuil and trusts her for guidance for he has betrayed himself and doesn't know what to do.

[flippadeal]

Everything he stood for is being destroyed by this love which he can't understand or control.

The truth is he's in love with both women but he loves Tourvel more

[redbonegal]

Damn, that's cold!! Valmont is so hot, I'd be crying too! Great movie!!

[shinnydun]

one of my top ten movies, love this scene, he did love her but it was Beyond his control, 20 years on still gives me shivers

[Musciqlover]

i Just did my debut in teather doing this scene and i loved it , u know ITS BEYOND MY CONTROL =) just Great both of them

[wken666wkd]

why does he grab her hair? fucking tit!!!

[celi1020]

it's the way of the world, quite beyond my control.... ARGH i love this scene, its beyond my control. LOL

[edudebcn]

Sorry, beyond my control.

[kraayzie26]

My stomach gets into knots when i watch this scene, so cruel yet obvious he doesnt mean it, love it!!

[OptiMISStka]

Oh...now I understand that this phrase I have heard in Mylen Farmer's song)))That was his voice))Ohhhh...I love Michelle and Mylene))Wonderful))Why did not they include Michelle's voice in a song?!)))

[lucythejuicy]

he is so undeniably sexy in this film.

[crystalclear999]

One of my fav films of all time. brilliant dialogue and excellent acting with great passion. John M is soo very good always. You believe him. Tough/good/sad scene done with great sensitivity. Indeed the way of the World

[Necroman666]

it's the way of the world

-quite- beyound my control

[Lile79Nia]

my lovely film

[DarqueBeauty]

One of the best films EVER! GREAT costuming

[maninwhitedress]

It's beyond my control and then I have control sometimes.

[zsijpento]

it's beyond my control!

malkovich<333

[ShindlerReal]

I love that song ;)

[loutheil]

Une vraie performance d'acteur.

[PleiadesSeven]

amytime someone tells you it is beyond their control or asks if you know the rules, hope you have this movue under your belt.

[MissLamington]

i for one DEFINITELY have this movie under my belt

[PleiadesSeven]

"It's like your fidelity, a fact no more no less, beyond my control."

AAAAGH! The bastard. Even if he does love her and this a performance he still kills her. Her blood is on his hands.

I am glad you have this movie under your belt. I had quite forgotten it when I went through something similar.

[MissLamington]

yes. a fantastic and sublime study of sexual politics at its most cunning and dastardly level. and yes, he loved her, but I agree he killed her, albeit indirectly.

[PleiadesSeven]

If you have any films to recommend to me, I;d love to hear it. Kama Sutra, A Love Story is also excellent. And Michelle Pfeiffer is so tiny yet such a lion and so broken here. This scene always gets me.

[joanooz]

at some point he didn't have a choice.. he is a libertine... in his life style there was no place for love.. so he couldn't possibly allow himself to admit or surrender to his love.. and he wanted to prove that he is not in love not only to the marquise, but to himself...

after all thats why he allowed Danceny to kill him in the end of the movie.. he couldn't live with himself.. and thats why he revealed the reality of the marquise..

but he still is a bastard.. big 1!

[taterbot]

MALKOVICH IS AMAZING

[WrogPublicznyNumer1]

ja to moge ogladac w kolko, i am addicted to this movie, ah

[Anina2482]

I love how he says it´s beyond my control...Malkovich says it a thousand times and in a different way each time, it´s brilliant...

[yankeeangel26]

Wow most devastating break up scene ever! Poor Madame de Tourvel!

[emmahouli]

i dont know the break up secen in cruel intentions could rival it

[yankeeangel26]

Yeah that was pretty intense- not surprising considering they are pretty much the same story, just set in different times. I read that Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon got so into that breakup scene that they both cried after they finished filming it.

[emmahouli]

not only that but Ryan Phillippe reportly threw up after it aswell

[bexlala]

this is way toned down in cruel intentions

[chief8abug]

This was a good "break up" scene. But I think there's another that can rival it. Look up "The Break Up Scene from Closer," and you'll watch another scene that is almost equal to this performance.

[janimarie09]

c'est lui le dindon de la farce !! qui joue perd !! il s'est fait avoir par Merteuil : pas assez fort le valmont pour accepter ses sentiments

[spittysmom]

He DID love her. To break-up with her hurt him as much as it hurt her. It was Beyond His Control, because that witch Glenn Close was controlling everyone in the movie, especially him, and he didn't even realize he was being used and purposely hurt.

A GREAT movie !!....

[emmahouli]

its a great movie, and malcavich is a fantastic actor, i dont belive him as a play boy thou,

but your right Close's character was amazin, and the choice of words was perfect!!

[girl43]

it's so sad .. since he do love her.

[Ponsifleur]

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos est un véritable génie de la littérature. Une histoire qui devrait être dans chaque bibliothèque!

[casseyboo89]

i didnt think i would like this movie and i really do love it now that i've seen it..this movie was very cleaver and smart. love malkovich and michelle...

[nohbohdeecarez]

ow...

[ligas70]

Best break up scene ever, i agree with you.

[cista]

how could such four simple words make so great a scene!

such a pitiful moment for both of them...

and to think he fell in love for the first time... and in the end, that love would be his their own ruin... indirectly anyway... so sad....

[dianaleontina]

he's also finished after breaking up with her... that moment behind the door... i think he really fell in love:X

[francesanne67]

Wow! The way he says "it's beyond my control" is so strange and sexy at the same time.

[ulrika666]

This is probably the best break up scene in history. It´s beyond my control. I know the feeling.

[rhetoricrabbit]

From an acting standpoint, I love how John Malkovich says the same line with a different motivation each time. He is brilliant.

[hesmydarling]

this is a really sad scene :(