History Literature / DangerousLiaisons

* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: Of a sort. Valmont could easily have won his duel with Danceny. But instead throws him self on Dancey's sword]]

* VirginityMakesYouStupid: Cecile. Justified InUniverse as she spent most of her life in a convent.

It was updated in 1999 [[HighSchoolAU to a modern high school]] as ''Film/CruelIntentions''. In 2003, another modern-dress (actually late 1950's/early 1960's) adaptation was filmed as a miniseries for French TV, starring Creator/CatherineDeneuve, Creator/LeeleeSobieski, Creator/NasstassjaKinski and Creator/RupertEverett. In the same year, a Korean movie adaptation, ''Untold Scandal'', transferred the plot, remarkably faithfully, to 18th century Korea. In 2018, [[KoreanDrama a South Korean modern-day adaptation]] called ''Series/{{Tempted}}'' also aired, starring Creator/{{Joy}} (from one of the country's biggest musical acts, Music/RedVelvet) and Woo Do-hwan.

It was updated in 1999 [[HighSchoolAU to a modern high school]] as ''Film/CruelIntentions''. In 2003, another modern-dress (actually late 1950's/early 1960's) adaptation was filmed as a miniseries for French TV, starring Creator/CatherineDeneuve and Creator/LeeleeSobieski. In the same year, a Korean movie adaptation, ''Untold Scandal'', transferred the plot, remarkably faithfully, to 18th century Korea. In 2018, [[KoreanDrama a South Korean modern-day adaptation]] called ''Series/{{Tempted}}'' also aired, starring Creator/{{Joy}} (from one of the country's biggest musical acts, Music/RedVelvet) and Woo Do-hwan.

* SettingUpdate: Besides ''Film/CruelIntentions'', one miniseries set the story in 1960s France and the South Korean film ''Untold Scandal'' transplants the story from 18th Century France to 18th Century Korea. A Chinese adaptation released in 2012 sets the story in 1930s Shanghai.

''Les Liaisons dangereuses'' is an 18th century EpistolaryNovel by French author Creator/PierreChoderlosDeLaclos.

It was adapted as an English language stage play in 1985 with its French title, then in 1988 as a film named ''Dangerous Liaisons'', and again the very next year as ''Film/{{Valmont}}''. It was updated in 1999 [[HighSchoolAU to a modern high school]] as ''Film/CruelIntentions''. In 2003, another modern-dress (actually late 1950's/early 1960's) adaptation was filmed as a miniseries for French TV, starring Creator/CatherineDeneuve and Creator/LeeleeSobieski. In the same year, a Korean movie adaptation, ''Untold Scandal'', transferred the plot, remarkably faithfully, to 18th century Korea. In 2018, [[KoreanDrama a South Korean modern-day adaptation]] called ''Series/{{Tempted}}'' also aired, starring Creator/{{Joy}} (from one of the country's biggest musical acts, Music/RedVelvet) and Woo Do-hwan.

* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: Of a sort. Valmont could easily have won his duel with Danceny. But instead throws him self on Dancey's sword]]

It was adapted as an English language stage play in 1985 with its French title, then in 1988 as a film named ''Dangerous Liaisons'', and again the very next year as ''Valmont''. It was updated in 1999 [[HighSchoolAU to a modern high school]] as ''Film/CruelIntentions''. In 2003, another modern-dress (actually late 1950's/early 1960's) adaptation was filmed as a miniseries for French TV, starring Creator/CatherineDeneuve and Creator/LeeleeSobieski. In the same year, a Korean movie adaptation, ''Untold Scandal'', transferred the plot, remarkably faithfully, to 18th century Korea. In 2018, [[KoreanDrama a South Korean modern-day adaptation]] called ''Series/{{Tempted}}'' also aired, starring Creator/{{Joy}} (from one of the country's biggest musical acts, Music/RedVelvet) and Woo Do-hwan.

It was adapted as a stage play in 1985, with its French name, then as a film in 1988, named ''Dangerous Liaisons'', then the very next year as ''Valmont'', and updated in 1999 [[HighSchoolAU to a modern high school]] as ''Film/CruelIntentions''. In 2003, another modern-dress (late 1950's/early 1960's) adaptation was filmed as a miniseries for French TV, starring Creator/CatherineDeneuve and Creator/LeeleeSobieski. In 2018, [[KoreanDrama a South Korean adaptation]] called ''Series/{{Tempted}}'' also aired, starring Creator/{{Joy}} (from one of the country's biggest musical acts, Music/RedVelvet) and Woo Do-hwan.

It was adapted as a stage play in 1985, with its French name, then as a film in 1988, named ''Dangerous Liaisons'', then the very next year as ''Valmont'', and updated in 1999 [[HighSchoolAU to a modern high school]] as ''Film/CruelIntentions''. In 2003, another modern-dress (late 1950's/early 1960's) adaptation was filmed as a miniseries for French TV, starring Catherine Deneuve and Creator/LeeleeSobieski. In 2018, [[KoreanDrama a South Korean adaptation]] called ''Series/{{Tempted}}'' also aired, starring Creator/{{Joy}} (from one of the country's biggest musical acts, Music/RedVelvet) and Woo Do-hwan.

''Les Liaisons dangereuses'' is an 18th century EpistolaryNovel by French author [[Creator/PierreChoderlosDeLaclos Pierre Choderlos de Laclos]].

The story follows wealthy aristocrats engaged in a malicious bet involving sexual conquests, revenge, manipulation, seduction, and love in the sophisticated, and decadent atmosphere of 18th century French high society.

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%%* SnowMeansDeath

%%* WhiteShirtOfDeath

''Les Liaisons dangereuses'' is an 18th century EpistolaryNovel by French author Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Laclos uses the framing device that he discovered the journals and is publishing them, and comments on how MoralGuardians likely object but he is publishing them for a moral purpose (namely that people like Valmont and Merteuil are [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing bad and others should avoid being taken in by someone like them]])

It was adapted as a stage play in 1985, with its French name, then as a film in 1988, named ''Dangerous Liaisons'', then the very next year as ''Valmont'', and updated in 1999 [[HighSchoolAU to a modern high school]] as ''Film/CruelIntentions''. In 2003, another modern-dress (late 1950's/early 1960's) adaptation was filmed as a miniseries for French TV, starring Catherine Deneuve and Creator/LeeleeSobieski.

* {{Sidekick}}: Azolan, Valmont's valet. Those watching the film may [[RetroactiveRecognition retroactively recognize]] him as future Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor Creator/PeterCapaldi.

* {{Sidekick}}: Azolan, Valmont's valet.

* TheBet: The lynch pin of the plot. Valmont and Merteuil hatch a bet that he will be able to seduce Tourvel; if he wins (with written proof) Merteuil will spend the night with him.

* ByronicHero: Tourvel and Volanges certainly consider Valmont to be this
%%* ConvenientMiscarriage: [[spoiler: Cecile's.]]
%%* CorruptTheCutie: Cecile.
%%* CostumePorn

%%* DuelOfSeduction

%%* TheIngenue: Cecile. So very much.

* NatureAdoresAVirgin: Played straight with Madame do Tourvel, inverted with Cecile.
%%* NotHimself
* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: Used by Merteul on Cecile with extreme cruelty when the despairing girl writes to her for help ; earlier, the marquise writes to Valmont claiming that women ''welcome'' sexual violence, as it gives them an excuse in a world where they can't freely succumb to desire.

%%* ThisMeansWar
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%%* UnholyMatrimony: Valmont and Merteuil
%%* TheVamp: Merteuil when around Valmont.

%%* {{Villain Protagonist}}s
%%* VirginityMakesYouStupid

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* AlliteativeName: The main characters are:

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The main characters are the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil.

* LipstickAndLoadMontage: The opening credits to the film has a montage featuring both the main male and female characters. It looks like they are dressing for battle, and [[TheRenaissance they were]].

It was adapted as a stage play by the same name, as a film in 1988 named ''Dangerous Liaisons'', then the very next year as the film ''Valmont'', and [[HighSchoolAU later updated in 1999 to a modern high school]] as ''Film/CruelIntentions''. In 2003, another modern-dress (late 1950's/early 1960's) adaptation was filmed as a miniseries for French TV, starring Catherine Deneuve and Creator/LeeleeSobieski.

''Les Liaisons dangereuses'' is an 18th century EpistolaryNovel by French author Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, adapted as a stage play by the same name and as the 1988 film ''Dangerous Liaisons''. It was adapted the very next year as the film ''Valmont'' and [[HighSchoolAU later updated in 1999 to a modern high school]] as ''Film/CruelIntentions''; in 2003 another modern-dress (late 1950's/early 1960's) adaptation was filmed as a miniseries for French TV starring Catherine Deneuve and Creator/LeeleeSobieski.

%%* DeathByDespair: [[spoiler: Tourvel]]

%%* IdleRich: Virtually all of the cast.

%%* TheBet
%%* BitchInSheepsClothing: Merteuil.
%%* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Merteuil in the end.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Valmont and de Tourvel are dead, Cecile's so broken by all the manipulation she decides to become a nun, and Merteuil is (in the film and book) publically disgraced and (also in the book) facially disfigured from the plague. She's gotten so engaging, if not actually likeable, that it can be hard to witness her downfall. In the play she gets off practically scot-free but is emotionally broken by the idea that Valmont loved someone other than her, and of course -- as the threatening shadow of the guillotine on the wall at the very ends reminds us -- the French Revolution is on the way...]]]