--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not > anything you do to *yourself* to "make yourself > look more attractive." It's something that you do > to the other person, to shift them into a state > of attention in which they find you more attrac- > tive. So they focus on you more than they might > have otherwise. However, once you've got their > attention, if you have a big wart on the end of > your nose and a beer belly like Homer Simpson's, > other factors take over and the other party might > tend to "wake up" enough to think, "*What* could > I have been thinking?" :-)
I've been trying to think of cinema examples of this "wrapping" thing, and the first one I can think of is done by a man, not a woman. And, given the actor who is doing this, I think he was doing it while he filmed the scene, and that some of that comes through when you watch it. It's in the first Star Wars film, when Obi-Wan Kenobi is sitting in the drone talking to two guards while the droids they're looking for are sitting next to him. "These are not the droids you're looking for." That's it. You can also see it in a tremendous film starring Isabelle Adjani. It's called One Deadly Summer in English (L'ete meurtrier in French). Adjani breezes into a small French village and wraps pretty much every man for 50 kilometers in every direction. Probably the best cinema example of the phenomenon I'm talking about, with a woman wrapping men. Wish she'd breeze into my village. :-) Garance in Children Of Paradise. If you'll notice, the actress (Arletty) is not all that attractive. But we're as captivated as the three men in the film are. Johnny Depp in Don Juan de Marco. In spades. Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons. Mena Suvari (the cheerleader) in American Beauty. Both Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek in Desperado. Forrest Whitaker in The Color Of Money (an example of "pulling it in"). Russell Crowe in pretty much everything (not his characters but as an actor). Tamasaburo Bando (one of the best Kabuki actors in the world) in Demon Pond, playing two different women. He's a guy. Kim Basinger in L.A. Confidential. Barbara Hershey in The Last Temptation Of Christ. Daniel Craig in the new James Bond flick. Nicole Kidman in To Die For. Emmanuelle Beart in pretty much everything. Many others...
