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Welcome to
Rosalyn Rosenfeld (American Hustle)
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▮ Synopsis

From Wikipedia:

A brilliant con man, Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his British partner and lover, but frightened newbie grifter, Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams), are recruited and forced to work for an FBI agent, Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper), who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that is as dangerous as it is enchanting. The operation eventually involves the Mayor of Camden, New Jersey, Carmine Polito (Jeremy Renner), caught between the con-artists and the Feds. Irving's wife, Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence), could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down.


▮ Information

First Look at American Hustle

Jennifer Lawrence Steals the Show in 'American Hustle' First Screening - TheWrap

Oscars: David O.Russell's American Hustle Wows At First Industry Screening - Deadline.com

Eric Singer's First Draft Screenplay
Note: David O. Russell has made significant changes during rewrites, and many more besides while shooting, but Singer's draft is worth a look all the same.


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Official Site
IMDB

Violent Delights

Thanks Tony

J-LawForever

Yay! New thread! Thanks, Tony!

BTW love the title of the thread.

Tati_SwanJones

TFTFT

nice title

J-LawForever

It is a great title.

mlkj13

Perfect title indeed!

Love the poster. Never saw that before.

J-LawForever

Violent Delights

nice collection

J-LawForever

Thanks. Those are just the ones I had quick access to without looking through my folders. Yes. I have all my Jen pics and Gifs in their own folders according to what they are from.

Quite possibly one of my fave gifs. I think for obvious reasons. Mainly cause I wish that she were talking to me.

Tati_SwanJones

this character

J-LawForever

Uh-huh. I know you're not suppose to like her character. But her character becomes the most likeable out all the ones in the movie.

TPF1138

That's the brilliance of casting Jennifer. Another actress in the role, and Rosalyn is completely irredeemable, but Jennifer's natural charisma bubbles to the surface and somehow makes even her most selfish actions forgivable. Her choice to play Rosalyn as immature, as almost a bratty child helps reinforce that. This is the impulsiveness of a child, not the calculated manipulations of an adult.

It's why the arguments about Jennifer's age never held up for me. Rosalyn is supposed to be young. In fact they do their best to play up her youth (something both David and Jennifer mentioned in multiple interviews). It’s fundamental to understanding her relationship with Irving. Rosalyn is the poster girl for Daddy issues, and she casts Irving, perhaps unconsciously, into a sort of twisted paternal role, that she then rebels against like a troubled teenager (see the ‘science oven’ incident). This is mixed with some childishly brazen attempts to entice him sexually, or use her sexuality almost like a cudgel (the kiss she violently plants on Irving’s mistress) in the war she’s waging to keep control of him. That’s before we even bring her child into the equation.

It's a complexity which emerges in the performance rather than from the text necessarily, which is one of the many reasons why it was deserving of an Oscar nomination.

J-LawForever

Totally agreed! You nailed it on the head!

Even at one point her character goes 'Treat me like a child" And this is right before the Science Oven thing happens.

But yeah. Jen is the one who makes this character. And without her it wouldn't have been so great or even care for that character as much.

TPF1138

J-LawForever

Cool pic there.