Marquise de Merteuil。

A woman who knows how the world in men and women runs when she was a child. She trained herself into a perfect performer in front of everyone. She follows and listens to her desire, shameless and tough. For her, ‘love’ is the emotion from the inferior level, and only losers who will believe in love. That is a word of joke, she does not be bother to say it, or even think of it. In the play and screenplay adopted by Hampton, they all show a very tough feeling of her and has all kinds of scheme to what she wants. But in film ‘Valmont’, Marquise de Merteuil who played by Annette Bening, expresses another possibility of Merteuil: a naïve, lovely and very feminine. The most extraordinary part is how complicated she is, how many masks she has and how she can change them easily. She is like a bottle of well-made red wine which has the best quality. Thousands of flavours in it, and from the very beginning when you taste it until you swallow; those flavours just surprise you in different part of your mouth and throat. What a sensational treat! However, she actually needs someone to love and always be with her desperately, and she thinks she is born to be the avenger for women. The two extreme philosophies made her the Merteuil she is.