I was reading Go Fug Yourself yesterday, and they were rightly commenting that the new Amelia movie looks like a real snoozer. Of course it's going to be a snoozer. All biopics are snoozers. I hate them. All of them. But I'm going to see Amelia. In fact, when I saw the trailer, I was excited. Not just intellectually excited, but all tingly in my belly excited.
I don't actually want to see the movie because I truly have never met a biopic that I like. I don't even think Mira Nair, a director whose sensibilities I normally quite like, can save the biopic from its lameness. But the thing is I love Amelia Earhart. She and Teddy Roosevelt were my childhood heroes. And when I say I love her, it's partly because of her feats of daring and her independence. But it's also because of her--her height, her style, the sound of her voice, her hair. My love of her is overcoming my distaste for biopics, and if that ain't love, I don't know what is.
So while the GFY girls are complaining about the movie's snooze factor and about the state of Hillary Swank's Amelia hair, I will probably be ordering tickets in advance while wondering, "Maybe I should get that hair cut!"
Woven Histories and Modern Abstractions
3 months ago
4 comments:
I'm SO with you. I have a lifelong love affair with her. I read multiple biographies of her as a child. She was definitely an icon that I worshiped. So I, too, will be seeing the movie, regardless of its worth or lack thereof.
Maybe we can arrange a girls night. There are just some things that you have to do, common sense or not...
I named my daughter after her!
I am looking forward to this movie so much, really no matter what.
Kat, if only we could have a girls night! Why is Australia so far away?
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