trailer break: ‘Julie & Julia’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer...
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Yea, female empowerment!
But in what universe is Amy Adams fat? C’mon...
I hope the movie is as promising as the trailer suggests. I’d love to see a movie that turns something that many women are interested in -- cooking -- into something that is valuable and worth the notice of the rest of the world. Too much of what women do is disparaged, particularly when women do it for free -- such as cooking for a family -- yet celebrated when men to it for pay: which is why so many of the “great chefs” have been men, especially until very recently.
And hey, why doesn’t someone buy my blog...?
Julie & Julia opens in the U.S. on August 7 and the U.K. on September 11.
(links here are good for finding recent posts, but will not be fully functional till I finish tagging 11 years worth of reviews and blog entries; I'll post a notice when tagging is done)
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posted by Anne-Kari (Thu Jul 02 09, 4:20PM)
Just when I thought I was never going to forgive Nora Ephron for Bewitched, Hanging Up, You've Got Mail, Michael...
Please let this be a fun as it looks in the trailer, please oh please oh please...
posted by Mimi (Thu Jul 02 09, 11:15PM)
1) I am really psyched about this movie.
2) How did they make normal-sized Meryl Streep look as larger-than-life as Julia Child? Was she sitting/standing on phone books the whole time? This alone fascinates me!
posted by Bob Aman (Fri Jul 03 09, 5:25PM)
This looks surprisingly fun. I approve.
posted by Victor Plenty (Fri Jul 03 09, 7:20PM)
MaryAnn, if you sell your blog, I have just one request for you: when negotiating your contract, demand gross points.
posted by Fuggle (Sat Jul 04 09, 4:34AM)
I've never quite understood why "cooking" is supposed to be so "feminine", especially when, as you say, for always "chefs" have always been men. It's odd. Plus, cooking can easily be seen as a 'traditionally masculine' thing - even if the definition is silly, it can be seen to fit it.
People are weird.
... Oh, and I really want to see half this movie, even if the other half, not so much. Hrm.
posted by Der Bruno Stroszek (Sat Jul 04 09, 5:06AM)
Sort of on the fence about this, though bob-haired Amy Adams is absolutely delectable in a Willow Rosenbergy kind of way.
posted by Mathias (Sat Jul 04 09, 9:55AM)
Well Fuggle, that's 'cuz everyone grew up with Mom in kitchen and Dad at work. It's just that simple.
I'm not condoning it of course......
posted by Fuggle (Sun Jul 05 09, 2:22AM)
Hm. I wonder what happened in families where dad went to work as a chef.
posted by Mathias (Sun Jul 05 09, 11:00AM)
Whatever happened in those households, it certainly wasn't influencial enough to negate the larger public negative stereotypes about the kitchen being the woman's domain.
posted by Fuggle (Mon Jul 06 09, 12:12AM)
I agree / understand, I'm just curious if, within those households, it was anything different.