The Counselor is a dialogue-heavy, stylized, ultraviolent crime movie that is both a thriller and a morality play. And a small, bookish portion of the audience will go out of curiosity to see what an original screenplay by Cormac McCarthy — the reclusive Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist — would turn out like. As Malkina, Diaz is part cat, part alligator. Her haircut is asymmetrical and two-toned, and her motives are similarly skewed.
The Counsellor: Cameron Diaz has sex with a car in controversial scene
Top 5 reasons Cameron Diaz's sex-with-a-car scene doesn't work in 'The Counselor' - gonsteadguitars.com
Remember the scene in 's raucous school-com Bad Teacher wherein Cameron Diaz's eponymous flawed educator washes a car in an erotic manner? When word first reached us that Cameron Diaz was joining Ridley Scott's The Counsellor , which boasts a screenplay penned by Cormac McCarthy and a cast led by Michael Fassbender, this was not the comparison we expected to be making. The sequence in question unfolds like this: Michael Fassbender's shark-eyed, in-over-his-head Counsellor is having a conversation with his new business associate, seedy club owner Reiner Javier Bardem. Clad in her signature animal print, Malkina climbs atop the hood of Reiner's Ferrari, divests herself of her underwear, and ecstatically humps the windscreen while Reiner watches in goggle-eyed disbelief. That's right - we said the windscreen.
Very impressive people worked on The Counselor. Directed by an Academy Award-nominated director. You would be forgiven, then, for thinking that The Counselor is not the sort of movie in which someone engages in sexual congress with a car.
We often complain about continuity problems in films we dislike as if they added to the disappointment, yet rarely mention continuity problems in the films we love. The scene where Cameron Diaz uses sperm as a hair gel was brilliant! The scene where Cameron Diaz has sex with a car was ridiculous! There are, of course, many key differences between these scenes that involve tone, execution and so forth.