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Article: The new Eve is no angel. (bad women in movies)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 24, 1994
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"LET the world beware," as Sharon Stone tells Michael Douglas in "Basic Instinct". There is a fresh breed of bad girl around and no man is safe. Femmes fatales are as old as Delilah but they are learning new tricks. In recent movies such as "The Last Seduction" and "Romeo is Bleeding" they are back with a vengeance and more ruthless than their predecessors ever knew how to be.
Take Mona de Markov, played by Lena Olin in "Romeo is Bleeding". She is the newest thing in organised crime--a hit woman for the Russian mafia. When an old-style Sicilian mafioso crosses her, she binds and gags him, stuffs him in the boot of a car, forces a detective at gunpoint to dig his ...