Dangerous Liaisons - Glenn Close - The End

[TheGordojo]

i am just tire of thinking about Oscars, how is possible u didnt gave to Glenn Close an Oscar for this or Fatal Atraction, are u crazy, or just stupid. i am really angry with u!

[Bobbileat]

A sublime performance & an unforgettable ending...Bravo!

[nathaninlondon]

It's a travesty that Glenn Close hasn't recieved an Oscar.

[JPtedesco]

Glenn Epic Close, I love her

[Dthevlogger]

@MrAlexp97 thanks, Glenn Close is superb in this.

[SethBlizzard]

Is it just me or is the ending of this movie set up like the end of a play? The last sentence spoken in the film is "pull the curtains". When Merteuil comes for her encore, if you will, the audience boo her off. She takes off her makeup, the play over, no longer able to escape to the character she charaded as, forced to live on as the damaged person she has become. Brilliant.

[kers3480]

Something so powerful about a woman taking off her makeup.

[Dthevlogger]

You gotta love Meryl Streep's magic she brings every character to life.

[MrAlexp97]

@Dthevlogger This is Glenn Close. :)

[TheGordojo]

@Dthevlogger this is another actress, a better one, Glenn Close. Well as good as Meryl okey?

[Senate300]

In own sick way Mertueil did love Valmont, but everything is posession and power. When they lose posession, that very thing must be destroyed. And that was Valmonts punishment for falling in love with another woman. The fact Mertueil devoted her energy's into Ceciles corruption simply for the fact that men (De Court and Danceny) would choose an innocent girl over her says alot about her battered ego. In Valmont's death she only succeeded in destroying herself.

[EinsteinattheMovies]

Glenn Close's performance in this film was phenomenal, she should've won her an Oscar for this film. This is the second film I've seen Glenn Close in, after '101 Dalmatians' and I loved her in that (not a great movie but a wonderful performane) but this is a much more sophistictaed film and Close's performance was the main attraction for me to want to watch this film and she didn't disappoint. If anything, she surpassed my expectations. Don't worry Miss Close, you will get your Oscar someday!

[JasminaVonLeeds]

Is she screaming because she fells guilty about valmonts death ? i really dont understand

[Shinmadoridoniana]

@JasminaVonLeeds No, it is because everybody discovered all her lies and how she took advantage of people because when Valmont died, Danceny published all her private letters where she told mr Valmont all of her plans about, for example, making Cecile became from a virgin to some like a bitch.

[kkallebb]

@JasminaVonLeeds She is screaming because her wickedness has been exposed by the circulation of her letters to Valmont after Valmont's death.

[BusinessButterfly]

this is so good is the end of all evil bitches out there!!! lol* Glen is such a good actress OMG give this woman her Oscar!!! for this scene alone superbly done...

[exbronco1980]

this is what should have happened to george w. bush.

[Alexaty5]

her acting is above the Oscars, i think that's why she has never won one, she's wonderful!

[fancoy]

Most awesome ending ever...

Thanks Mrs Close

[joelt2105]

I just love her eyes...as the "boos" fill the concert hall, she nevertheless holds her head high, but her eyes, as they scan the whole of those that would have fallen over themselves for her favor before, now dispise her....she turns slowly away, her step falters, but her nose never falls! What an actor.

[sspdirect02]

The most electrifying ending to any film.

[Senate300]

In terms of the merteuil Character in the 3 films ive seen, in DL she's a powermad egomaniac and a product of a chauvinistic society. In Valmont she's an infantile sadist who gets away alot without any retribution. In CI she a cold blooded, self centred bitch who values her facade above all else. All 3 are driven by Envy of innocence and sheer joy in others misery. Since DL the Valmont character's been dumbed down the most in the other films.

[Calucifer13]

@Senate300 You have a great observation skills, dear Sherlock Holmes. I mean it. I have never read any other (and better) commentary on those characters than you made.

[Senate300]

Having said that, John Malcovich's depiction of the Valmont character was one for Grown Folks.

[goolagong68]

oscar worthy but they gave it that yearr to Fosters telemovie performance

[JRHhhify]

she's only getting booed because she broke that big ass mirror in the scene before.

[MiroSimPictures]

@Roya6 : [...] As a conclusion, I would say that Valmont's genuine love for Tourvel was a redemption for this dangerous libertine - a redemption caused by the purity of Tourvel's soul and heart. Therefore, it appears that this man who found true love where he expected it least can be forgiven. However, there seemed to be no redemption for the Marquise and her deeds, as they were mostly caused by vanity. Still, I couldn't agree more on the fact that Merteuil is a truly mesmerizing character.

[TarantulaCandy]

@MiroSimPictures Merteuil is amazing because she stuck it to the men, she broke the gender parallels, and as usual in a chauvinistic little boy's world she's the "evil" one cause she's a threat to the men, in my opinion people like her make this world wonderful. Tourvel was as pathetic as a low self-steem woman can be, and the true asshole of the movie is Valmont who chose his reputation over his feelings. he deserved to die without any "redemption" til the end he was rotten.

[TarantulaCandy]

@MiroSimPictures I strongly disagree, Valmont got what he deserved for toying with so many women's feelings..death and not a chance at redeeming himself for he hurt both the women he loved (he was clearly in love with Merteuil as well) Tourvel was best dead. weak, quite the cheating whore, and pathetic. not ill willed but a waste of a woman in the end. Merteuil learns her lesson in the end. she's the only one who has the chance to turn her fortunes around.

[MiroSimPictures]

@Roya6 : [...] Valmont realizes too late that he was cruelly manipulated by Merteuil to satisfy her own vanity, but when he tries to come back to Madame de Tourvel, she is already dying. Tourvel's long agony in the novel is a really heartbreaking part as it extends over several days during which her sanity and health are terribly affected - and yet, in her ultimate prayer, Tourvel begs Heaven for mercy on Valmont's soul, saying he cannot be blamed for her own guilts. [...]

[MiroSimPictures]

@Roya6 : [...] In the novel, it is also suggested several times by Valmont's behavior, words and feelings that he may have actually genuinely fallen in love with Madame de Tourvel - without being able to understand nor to accept that fact. When Merteuil realizes this though, her vanity and jealousy towards Madame de Tourvel leads her to viciously trick Valmont into writing a breakup letter, which she knows will fatally wound Tourvel's pure heart and feelings. [...]

[MiroSimPictures]

@Roya6 I have to say that in the original novel by Laclos, la Marquise de Merteuil's deeds are depicted as even more vicious and merciless than in the movie - which still remains an extraordinary adaptation.

In the novel, it is really clear that Merteuil was the one controlling everything, even her own accomplice Valmont. Her refined and sublte manipulative ways allowed her to heavily influence several of Valmont's acts, while still fooling him into believing they were his own. [...]

[Roya6]

@MiroSimPictures It's frightening to imagine being manipulated so easily without any indication that it's happening until that person decides to inform you. When I read the novel this past summer, I was enthralled, horrified, and in a constant state of shock in regards to the Marquise de Merteuil's behavior.

[TarantulaCandy]

@Roya6 technically speaking she was just trying to play the same game the boys have done since the dawn of time, it is funny how a woman gets blame for being better at the game than the boys, and yet the boys don't get booed. what's more frightening is to see how double standards apply to this day.

[Roya6]

@MiroSimPictures One thing that really caught my attention about the movie was that while the Marquise seemed to have genuine affection for Valmont. in the novel it purely based on her power over him and his decisions. As well as the games she played to amused herself.

[TarantulaCandy]

@MiroSimPictures be it as it may be, just because you go along with someone influencing you, doesn't make you an less guilty. he was a grown man with his own sense of judgement, he was not a child. what I think is funny how many overlook the fact that he himself all along had the power to end the game and choose who he loved, but men are greedy and want to have their cake and eat it too. and women tend to attack each other rather than the man who is the cause of their pain.

[md991free]

She has been unmasked for all time.

[CressidaTussaud]

Does she always go crazy in her films? O_o

[MICATALINA]

no me canso de ver esa escena ,GLEN CLOSE se merecia el OSCAR.......ojala este año lo logre..

[whistlenotelover]

I just finished watching this cinematic masterpiece for the 1st time ever! WOW can't believe what I had missed this whole time. I'd say to metaphorically analyze the ending that her character's reflection has been deciphered, her facade {make-up) is pointless, as her deceptive merit, consisted of cruel intentions has now been revealed {thus, make-up removed} for all to acknowledge and ridicule. This film is truly sublime tragedy, and of pseudo-operatic, haunting grandeur.

[Roya6]

Exactly! They only treated her that way because she was a woman. Had it been another man he probably would have been scorned for about a week or so and then forgiven. The only consolation we have is knowing that at least she didn't suffer a fate as worse as de Laclos wrote for her in the book!

[CaciqueUrraca]

@Roya6 Maybe it’s easier to overlook Valmont’s wrongdoings because his reassuring de Tourvel of his love for her just before he died and him causing the Marquise’s downfall could be considered somewhat redeeming actions. Besides, dead people can’t defend themselves. The Marquise, although she loved him in her own twisted way, had no redeeming qualities in the end. This is one of those instances where I find the “bad” characters, however flawed, more interesting than the good ones.

[Wellworm]

i find her actually pretty sympathetic. In modern times, an ambitious woman like her might have found an outlet for all of her intelligence and passion. Instead, she was subjected to a lifetime of being a pretty toy, a useless object with no other outlet than social politics. I felt sorry for her ending; all those people who scorn her are most likely not much better. They were all aristocrats themselves, after all.

[HaloandMetroid]

@Wellworm Yeah I felt bad for her too. I though I was the only one. Valmont on the other hand not so much.

[Roya6]

I loved de Laclos 'Dangerous Liaisons', I loved this movie as well as Cruel Intentions, but what irritated me the most about all three was that just because Valmont dies, the Marquise de Merteuil is saddled with the blame for everything that they did TOGETHER. No one forced him to leave the Madame de Tourvel, just like no one forced Sebastian to leave Annette. It just really annoys me how everyone seemed to look down on the Marquise and Kathryn. Ok, rant over, great scene!

[HaloandMetroid]

@Roya6 Yeah I was like seriously when I saw those scenes. How was she lumped with all of the blame and Valmont get all of t he sympathy. He made those choices she didn't force him to do it.

[kalifornialovex3]

i don't get it is she crying because vicomte died or madame de tourvel died?

[ToyoFr]

@kalifornialovex3

Because she knows that Valmont died, she is in love with him. And Also, because she knows that her reputation is destroyed, because of Valmont who aks to D'Anceny to publish the letters where Valmont and Merteuil organised their manipulation against De Tourvel. All the high society discovers her real personnality.

[maryba10]

Glenn Close abucheada por su maldad , mezquindad y sus intrgas solo por diversión, una vida vacia y sin más aliciente que el hacer daño a los de su alrededor

[HJGO1990r]

@maryba10

Así es. La actuación está espectacular... ¡y no ganó el Oscar! Lo más triste es que lo merecía el año anterior por "Fatal Attraction" (1987) y ese año por igual... ¡Este año debe ganar! ¡Se lo deben! Por cierto, qué bueno encontrar algo de español en medio de tanto inglés...

Saludos.

[maryba10]

@HJGO1990r

La verdad es que es muy buena actriz.

[SithSereyPheap1]

Let he who is without sins cast the first Booooo....

[Tigerlily21]

They should have put her in supporting. She could have won easily there. She wasn't really in Dangerous Liasons that much it was mostly John Malkovich.

[ez88uc]

GIVE HER AN OSCAR ALREADY!!!! She should have won 2 by now for this and for Fatal Attraction! No contest!

[HJGO1990r]

@ez88uc

I'm SO agree with you!!!!!!!!!!

Greetings.

[TheGordojo]

Glenn Close deserved the oscar for that role.

and fatal atraction

GLENN CLOSE IS THE BEST!!!!

[Marigoldshadow]

My stomach drops every time I watch this scene. Everytime.

[EandMetal]

I like how when she starts to take off her earrings and makeup at 1:34 it takes her several seconds to meet her own eyes in the mirror - but then once she does, she just doesn't look away, not really. This is part of the beauty of Close's performance - she can do wild emotion brilliantly, but also these very subtly acted moments too, of quiet ruination. Maybe having to look at herself, unmasked to herself and to all society - that's the character's true punishment here.

[hineni53]

The spider is caught in her web of deceit.

[Dogos73]

Pure masterclass acting... how can she loose the oscar to Cher is beyond understanding...

[JuanJ1939]

@Dogos73 It was against Jodie Foster in "The Accused" Both performance are sublime

[TarantulaCandy]

@Dogos73 I agree, cher is mediocre at everything, singing, acting, dancing. the only thing she's super duper hardcore is plastic surgery.

[caliostra]

@TarantulaCandy Don,t be bad dogos...

[kkarls1]

I watched this with my mom the other night and at the end, when Glenn Close is standing on the balcony looking stunned as the entire theatre boos her, my mom deadpans "Wanna get away?" a la Southwest Airlines. I cracked up.

[dude0072]

No oscar ever for Glenn Close? wtf? what a powerhouse

[PlainYork]

At the opening, she looked so young and so fresh, arrogant, self-assured, confident. Here she looks so old, haggard, defeated. Great contrast beginning to end.

[bimbrochlej]

One word: GENIUS!!

[DSdude3]

Cool way to end, but the ending was much different in the play

[concalo]

she's excellent!

[squashedtomato]

I dont agree Meutiel manipulated Valmont...he prided himself on being an invincable master of deceit...but too weak to be a master of himself...he was too weak to say say- I love her, and I dont care what you or other people think- until the end. His vanity and pride made him ashamed of his deep emotions. Thats why Meutiel says vanity and happiness are incompatable. Its true in life people often choose people to flatter their vanity and ego-but that is not what real love is about....

[squashedtomato]

brillantly played- and could have so easily been so overdone and hammy.....

Meutiel was a just a poisened dragon..but already see the judgement is on her? Why? Valmont was just as evil and he destroyed the person he really loved. Its interesting why is there more sympathy? He had not ineffect commited suicide..he would have totaly got away with everything he did, kept his money and position in society. Meutiel being a woman, would have no other fate but utter ruination.

[blackiemittens]

The ULTIMATE 'what goes around~comes around' scene in all movie history!

Your mother was right when she told you, mistreat people, lie and scheme and, it may take awhile, but it's going to catch up with you. It'll take what you can't think of losing and bring more pain than all the fun smirking gave you to begin with.

[Messylin]

Is she crying over Valmont, or because her reputation is destroyed?

[Lisa4174]

@Messylin Both, I believe. Now she has nothing.

[AdArmand]

This is what happens when you indirectly have a hand in killing Michelle Pfeiffer!!

[anonymous19601]

@AdArmand Because it's always the other woman's fault and never the man who strung along both of them.

[TarantulaCandy]

@AdArmand stupid comment.

[AdArmand]

@TarantulaCandy - don't you know what "indirectly" means?

[caliostra]

@AdArmand hahaha!;-);-)



[hardsam68]

@AdArmand this was close at her screen best...the last three scenes alone should have nailed that Oscar but Josie Foster won for the conscience vote in The accused which is basically a Telemovie performance

[vonspre]

Out of this world

[Blueeyedboy87]

BEST ending of a movie EVER!!!

Glenn does a magnificent job of the character!!!

[tsewacceber]

It's so sad tho, she can't ever enter into society again.

[tara8686]

@tsewacceber maybe it's for the best, society made what she was, she was in a cage, kind of...maybe away from it, she'll learn real freedom and happiness

[tara8686]

she loved him deeply then.......i cannot understand her actions though.....why manipulate him, torture him.......when she could have him the entire time........

i see the other comments and i can relate, her pain hurts me deeply, mostly because she inflicted it upon herself before anyone else......

[feel1213]

@tara8686 she manipulated and abused him because, in the end, she was the most damaged by her society and her role in it. If you listened carefully to her diouring the whole move she remarks on a anumber of ocations that she is a woman, and that wimen are forced to be something, while men get to fool arround constantly. she must've gotten tired of that while being married the first time, and the spite corrupted her. You can clearly see that diouring her last interaction with the Valmont.

[tara8686]

@feel1213 i understood the character, i was only relating to myself with her actions, how i couldnt have done the same myself, i wasnt clear enough with my comment maybe

[Bhav341]

@tara8686 probably it was "beyond her control"

[mkbr2007]

For this ending scene alone, Glenn Close should of won the Academy award. I can't believe she has not won yet! She is such a great actress and is so underrated.

[dannlynch]

another thought...this is why women are generally more powerful than men...b/c they can let themselves go into the depth of their emotions like this; especially grief and despair. it would be rare the male actor who could pull this off. men usually fuck up their crying scenes, or it's not very moving, or very real.

[dannlynch]

the first 24 seconds of this clip is the most powerful thing I've ever seen on film. glenn is just too good. I remembered this scene when one of my best friends died and went into my car and screamed just like that. funny how actors can help u that way.

[lalalaXify]

great actress...

[anonym7771]

this is one of the greatest movie endings of all time, i mean, i'm not gonna see the whole video so it doesn't loose the sense of perfection it brings me, but if it shows that makeup-cleaning part, you've just gotten one of the best scenes at all, like my friend up there would say, the most powerful distress of the world.

If someone could use the same expression at something a little more moving like a son's death or aything else, that's the movie to crash the world..

[kvic2011]

Glenn Close is sadly one of the most underrated actresses in the history of film.

[jail2121]

@kvic2011 5 oscar nominations, but I hope that she wins the oscar for her new movie Albert Nobbs in wich she performs a woman who dress herself as a man to work in Ireland, I relly hope she wins in 2012...She totally deserve it!

[msshayxpear]

Glenn is incredible in the scene.

The bit where she creams and tears up her room gives me chills... and in the boo scene... without saying a word she shows how utterly defeated the character is

This is up there with the best acted scenes I ever seen. The only other one I can think of off the top of my head that is equally well acted was Miranda Richardson's raw portrayal of grief in the kitchen scene in "Damages"

[Bhav341]

@msshayxpear it's that one little stumble as she is walking out of the booth that shows the defeat

[exbronco1980]

in real life, all those people probably would not care enough to boo at her for what she had done.

[rking1996]

i still dont understand why they boo her,just because she could be a bitch

[kvic2011]

@rking1996 They boo her because the Chevalier Danceny had been ordered by Valmont to publish/distribute the stack of letters. He handed the letters over after Danceny killed him in the duel.

[exbronco1980]

they were tired of her shit.

[AlbaFlavius]

This is highclass-acting. Glenn Close is amazing. 

[prestely]

and i'll add that, even though i love the whole movie, that scene where she finally becomes herself, desperate by the death of the one she loves, is the greatest of all; the pain, that had been hidden and hushed up for all those years finally comes out. and there is nothing worse than living on this miserable life with this loss that will never leave.

[prestely]

extraordinary! not only does glenn close portrait one of the greatest woman character of all western litterature (from one of the best french books ever -a bible that holds everything there is to understand about man/woman relationships); but moreover she IS the character to her bones! an example, one of the greatest performances! I love Glenn Close, she's an amazing actress and i still cannot understand why she didn't win the oscars..Close always knows how to choose brilliant female characters!

[PruePeyton2]

Amazing acting. Glenn Close gave the audience the ability to feel what she felt in her reaction to Valmont's death.

[exbronco1980]

i like it when really bad people have something bad happen to them.

[czerniakow1]

@ITALOVER2 Are you all right in the head? Don't you understand this scene?

It is not about the French.

And what about yourself? Your appaling comment and your use of language.

Held your held high and leave? Hang it in shame, shut up and leave indeed.

[rking1996]

y do they boo her

[exbronco1980]

@rking1996 watch the movie.

[theSupercasa]

this ending reminds me of the ending of cruel intentions. sarah michelle gellar did a great job there. so does glenn close here.

[nikki04movies]

@theSupercasa Both (Cruel Intentions and Dangerous Liaisons) are based on the french novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Laclos. Dangerous Liaisons is set in the 18th century (like the novel) and in Cruel Intentions the story is relocated to modern-day New York and is set amongst upper-class High School teens. There also exists a version which relocates the story to the 1960s (it stars Catherine Deneuve and Rupert Everett).

[PlainYork]

@nikki04movies There is also a movie named Valmont which is also set on the 18th century however the ending was changed a lot and so did other aspects.

[PlainYork]

@theSupercasa LOLOL oh wow. They are based on the same novel. 

[theSupercasa]

@PlainYork I know.

[vastolive8]

@theSupercasa Comparing Sarah-M G with Glenn Close is an insult itself....GC is an acting queen.

[Leydeen]

I've always loved this film.

I've always admired Glenn Close.

And that scene, when she's screaming, completely destroyed by Valmont's death, which drows her into an infinite solitary... in only 20 secondes, we can feel the most powerful distress of the world.

This scene hurts me so deeply... I can't explain it, how powerful it can be.

(So, Glenn Close, marry me)

[Bhav341]

@Leydeen I guess she really did love Valmont. I know everyone believes she was evil, but I felt bad for her in the end. Imagine how horrible it would have been to have been a woman in those times. At least she was lucky, because she had money, but still - she was a victim too, a strong woman forced to play a role she despised. And men in those times? The man she loved left her and was now looking to marry a teenager? Any surprise that she was bitter and out for revenge?

[Leydeen]

@Bhav341

I couldn't agree more.

[Bhav341]

@Leydeen and you are a male? or a lesbian? (asking because of your above marriage proposal)

[Leydeen]

@Bhav341

I'm not a male, neither a lesbian. Just thinking that she is one of the best actress of her time. Like @vastolive8 said, she is an acting queen. The proposal was just about the admiration I got for her. Just humour, you know ? No need to ask this kind of stupid questions...

[Bhav341]

@Leydeen not asking a stupid question - I was actually being humorous myself with the lesbian comment. my point in asking is that it if you were a man, it would be nice to hear you could have empathy for how a woman could be driven to such things at this time in history. Many men do not understand, or don't want to. Sorry if you misread me, didn't mean to be insulting.

[Leydeen]

@Bhav341

Oh. Yup, we really misunderstood (that's the point with written stuff : we don't know with which tone it's said). Sorry for disappointing you by not being a man. I do agree with you about that point by the way. (and now I'm stopping going out of the topic) (oh, and about the question itself, I didn't take it as something insulting in any way, just thinking that it was pointless, but we ended with that.)

[messerJ4H]

@Bhav341:

She was a victim? Yes, she was, a victim of her evil conspiracies.

[Bhav341]

@messerJ4H well, yes - of course. But imagine being a woman in those times. Even a wealthy woman.

[messerJ4H]

@Bhav341

I'm an egoist, I don't interact with women who don't want to submiss to me.

I'm a man, so I dominate. I set rules and frame of my relationships.

I don't even believe that women can be happy in relationships in which they dominate. (But it might be the case for small number of them.)

So yes, I would prefer to live in times when woman were addressed "Madame", in times of patriarchy.

[astralcomplex]

wow, I have to see this movie.

[AlexDincht]

@ITALOVER2 The finest part, though, is that they managed to humiliate a person to death without saying one single profanity. This is something which should be learnt, before being judged. ;)

[mad4itomalley]

oh dear

[GhastEald]

Notice how it started with her putting herself together, and now, taking herself apart (as if she had a choice)

[ldeliane]

(.. in the original (the book, novel by C.Laclos), not only is the Marquise ostracized by society- she is struck with smallpox and is left horribly scarred--)

[platinumblondebiatch]

the part when her makeup goes all over was sort of put into the ending of cruel intentsions, when the dean of manchester prep finds kathryn's cocaine in her rosary and the coke goes everywhere.

[pirateking193]

this is so sweet. mertuil gets her just desserts. the way they stare at her shows just how much she's cooked.

[jeanneadele]

@pirateking193 ur right she does get her just desserts. and at the same time, i wonder if you also feel sorry for her?  i find that i do.