Academy Awards?
Photo by Christopher B. Fuller
Are Clint and Meryl discussing who has the better chance of walking away with an Oscar this month? Probably not because this picture was taken quite a few years earlier at the Telluride Film Festival of 1998! But here’s two actors that just don’t seem to age in the hearts and minds of their fans.
Meryl Streep is ‘a devil’ who wears her Prada well whether she wins an award or not. Although she’s made The Devil Wears Prada a box office hit - this role might have been a little too easy for a pro like Meryl Streep!
One of the highlights of The Devil Wears Prada is the build-up of going to Paris for fashion week. Many of us who live in Paris - never get that privilege. Sarah Turnbull writes a chapter re Fashion Week in her book “Almost French” for those of us who can at least ride on her coattails.
Attending fashion week would be my idea of a dream week in Paris - but not if I had to go on a diet first!
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Streep has said that some of the roles in which she felt she did her best performances were not box office hits (I think she was talking about Weeds - a film I haven’t seen yet). No, I haven’t seen either of Eastwood’s films this year but I’d like to see them both.
Might you be a Libra? (viewing anything from only one perspective disturbs you) We Librans are very sensitive about balanced perspective. Chris and I were in Saipan two summers ago and once you’ve visited cliff where hundreds of Japanese civilians leaped into the sea just before the arrival of the American troups, one can imagine how war destroys all sense of perspective. The unimaginable becomes banal.
Getting back to Streep and Oscars, the real superstar of the season (in my most humble opinion) is Penelope Cruz in Volver. No one comes close. With Almoldavar, she is as delicious and refreshing as early morning dew in Normandy.
I haven’t quite figured out what Penelope Cruz’s connection is to Paris - which is why I haven’t done a parislogue post on her to date.
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I finally saw Streep in her devil role. I agree with you, Chris. This was way tooooooo easy for her. I felt her mocking her character at times. It was as though she was acting and not really into the role. My take.
Did not see Flags of our Fathers, but did sit for Letters from Iwo Jima. Eastwood’s goal to show WWII from the Japanese side was successful, however, it always disturbs me when we view anything from only one perspective. Of course the Japanese felt pain, love, hunger…. like us. Many didn’t want to go into the war - as with Americans, French, Germans, Italians…
Read the book, The Rape of Nanking, written by a Chinese. You’d expect the author to be just a little wee bit on the side of the Chinese. And she is, so is everyone else who reads it. What amazed me then and now is her ability to remain detached by showing “the times” and how it affected people.