Describe Jean Seberg

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In thirty words or less.

― m. reed, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

goddard fucker.

― Geoff, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

beautiful short haired sex godess

― Ed, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Great haircut.

― Omar, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Two expressions.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

an american in paris , one of two woman i would fuck, the best haircut in film history, she leaves me breathless

― anthony, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think one of the only people on screen I've fallen in love with. (audrey hepburn being another)

― Ed, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A reason to watch Paint Your Wagon, but not as good a reason as seeing and hearing Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood attempt to sing.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The politics section of this site is very interesting.

― DG, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anna Karina is a better dancer.

― Kris, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She is the only person to ever make the International Herald Tribune interesting. And she was the best Joan of Arc.

― Andrew L, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Breathless sucks, her voice is annoying.

― Ally, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She beat Edie Sedgewick, Mia Farrow and Julie Driscoll (sorta) to that haircut. She deserves more credit. But what does Richard Hell think?

― Arthur, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The dancing and pool-shooting sequence in Ma Vivre Sa Vie. That was her, wasn't it? Oh my lord. Such a thin flimsy scrim between lascivious and ladylike.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Isn't the afore-mentioned (and equally fab) Anna Karina in 'Vivre Sa Vie'?

― Andrew L, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Godard liked those bobs I guess, huh? Damn, I could look like Jean Seberg with Kathryn's black bob.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

she makes every frame of A bout de souffle something glowing and exceptional. Godard said that in that film he merely wanted to see her doing little things that amused him.

― rainy, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Feather-bobbed urchin that illuminated the screen. Effortless cool. Not, however, the best Joan of Arc. Along with Karina - a luminous muse in the history of French cinema

There you go - 30 words.

― Will, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

gah! hideous. and Breathless was super dull, and totally over-rated. don't like Audrey Hepburn much either, but at least her films had a plot

― m jemmeson, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

jean seberg starred in
preminger's "bonjour tristesse"
she looks good in shorts

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 23 May 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

agreed. she pouts good too.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 24 May 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

she was very pretty

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 May 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The angelic Martian
belonged to the boulevards of Paris.
Then the druggy international thriller
of her fictions
became her life.

― PODFSIJMEFICEFJWPJMEIJFJP:MJ:WMJWP:MFEJP:IWGMveuiPS, Monday, 24 May 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i do believe that
seberg was from iowa
originally

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 24 May 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

you know how certain completely meaningless-out-of-context movie lines will somehow stick in your mind forever? well, my all-time candidate is...

"NEW YORK HERALD TRI-BUUUUUUUUUUUNE!!"

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

was she supposed to speak french like an american in a bout de souffle? i like how she kept cutting her hair. (or at least i seem to remember that she kept on fussing with it as if she wanted it to be even shorter.)

― youn, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

spoilers for "a bout de souffle"!!

so what were they ACTUALLY saying at the end? in my version the subtitles read:

belmondo: "it's a real scumbag..."
policeman: "he said 'you're a real scumbag.'"
seberg: "what's a scumbag?"

but i got the sense somehow that the french word he used meant something a LOT stronger.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

My VHS says bitch, he probably called her a cunt. Amateurist to thread, he'd know.

― A Million Talking Hot Dogs (AaronHz), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah the version I saw also said "bitch", I wonder if they changed it for the DVD? Though it strikes me an odd change, to make the word mean even less than it actually does.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

My ex-wife once (1989?) did a picture spread for an Italian magazine where she was supposed to represent Seburg...tanti anne fa. Scusi drunk again.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Was the end of KB2 ('you're my favorite person but sometimes you're a real cunt') supposed to be an homage?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

probably, knowing QT.

― A Million Talking Hot Dogs (AaronHz), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Why describe her when we can subject her to the male gaze?

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/chabrieres/actresses/thumbnails/jean_seberg.jpg

― Λεεετερ φαν δεν, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

remember when she played cello for belle and sebastian?

― A Million Talking Hot Dogs (AaronHz), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

oh wait...

― A Million Talking Hot Dogs (AaronHz), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

jean seberg looks more like a fawn than isobel campbell. looks like a fawn, that is. i mean i'm comparing them both to fawns.

― youn, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

the French use "life's a bitch" or "it's a bitch" even more than Americans do, they have a million ways to say it. "oh c'est pute" etc. i can't remember if this is what B-mondo says at the end, but it would would be easy for the policeman to misunderstand/misrepresent this. of course maybe Seberg herself is "life" oh la la.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"The police who kill Michel appear subject to the same misunderstandings as everyone. As he looks at Patricia he whispers ‘C’est vraiment degueulasse’ (It’s a real bitch) but when Patricia asks ‘Qu’est-ce que c’est degueulasse?’ (again) the policeman replies “He says You’re a real bitch” Is this a final example of miscommunication or is it what the policeman thinks of her?" (http://www.newi.ac.uk/humanities/dir5/souffle.htm)

Degueulasse has various meanings - literally it means, er, pukey, but it's a harsher and less childish word in French. Gueule = gob

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Good translation = 'Oh, jobbies!'?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"Barfarooney"

― A Million Talking Hot Dogs (AaronHz), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't remember what belmondo says at the end, i can check it out when i get home.

there's a blonde guy hawking the new york herald tribune in playtime, i suspect this is a bout de souffle reference.

seberg's character is supposed to be american, hence she speaks with an accent.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

in jim mcbride's remake it's the guy who is american and the girl is french, speaking in english with an accent.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"degueulasse" i think of as meaning nasty or disgusting, so i guess the confusion is whether belmondo means that the world is disgusting and nasty, or if she is? eh whatever, godard.

i'd like to hear belmondo last breath be "ca fait chié! oh la la"

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry i mean "chier" GRR.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I said 'degueulasse' once in a French class and Mrs Willis told me off. I had no idea it was offensive because my friends in France used it all the time. The whole class went "ooooooooh, Lucy swoooooooore."

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

la vie, c'est crade

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

ou c'est mauche. "what did he say?" "he said you're ugly." *AIIEEEEE* *rends hair, kills self*

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

...not as funny considering the life story of JS

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

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