Give me More, Ms. Drew
October 18th 2009 15:21
I spent this weekend hanging out with Drew Barrymore, figuratively speaking. Friday night was a roller coaster, er roller derby of fun watching Whip It, in theaters now. I was really excited for Whip It and it did not disappoint. It was a very sincere, funny and tough girl power movie. Two things that really stuck out to me were 1.) Learn to forgive your friends, and 2.) Find something you love no matter how hard or scary it might be. It took me a very long time to learn those two life lessons, I might even still be working on that second one, so I definitely wish I had more movies like Whip It to watch when I was younger. If any of you readers have daughters or nieces, definitely take them to go see this movie.
Getting over the sentimental stuff (which the movie is well balanced and not overly emotional), Juno star, Ellen Page was awesome as star rookie Babe Ruthless, Kirstin Wiig as Maggie Mayhem was perfectly real in portraying that older, wiser woman, and Drew Barrymore, who also directed, was the rock-entainment as SMASHLY Simpson and living up to that name. I thought Barrymore was going to have a bigger role in it, but it was clear that she let her actors do their thing and was more of a supporting character, which was probably a smart move since she had the responsibility of directing the whole thing. For her directing debut, she really nailed it. (Oh, and as an extra bonus, how cool was Andrew Wilson as the coach?! Those Wilson brothers really are something. A delicious something that is.) More after the photo.
Then on Saturday, I finished Confessions of a Dangerous Mind on DVD which also had Ms. Drew Barrymore. She played television show creator and host, Chuck Barris', long time girlfriend Penny. I remember liking the movie more the first time around, but it was still a good rental for a late night, rainy Thursday (although, I only made it through half of it before falling asleep.)
I have mixed feelings about Penny, she is so strong and comfortable about herself that she can be whoever she wants. One time Barris returns from a trip, and Penny tells him, "I'm a hippie now." She doesn't care if he's going to like it or not, that's who she is. As the movie progresses, and Barris becomes more isolated from her and cruel to her, that's when we see Penny become that helpless woman. "Do you even want to be with? Do you even like me? Do you even want me around?" She asks Barris, after he brings a woman to their house and he goes to woo her back. She loses a lot of her identity/agency in this scene. She's not asking herself what she wants. But what can really be expected, when this is a movie adapted from a book that Barris wrote--it wouldn't have a perspective in which Penny is figuring out what she wants, this movie isn't about her perspective. In the end Penny gets her man, which is nice otherwise the movie would just be a little too ominous, too bleak for me.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind also has some heavy hitters--George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and cameos from Matt Damon and Brad Pitt. And I think Drew's performance holds it own.
Getting over the sentimental stuff (which the movie is well balanced and not overly emotional), Juno star, Ellen Page was awesome as star rookie Babe Ruthless, Kirstin Wiig as Maggie Mayhem was perfectly real in portraying that older, wiser woman, and Drew Barrymore, who also directed, was the rock-entainment as SMASHLY Simpson and living up to that name. I thought Barrymore was going to have a bigger role in it, but it was clear that she let her actors do their thing and was more of a supporting character, which was probably a smart move since she had the responsibility of directing the whole thing. For her directing debut, she really nailed it. (Oh, and as an extra bonus, how cool was Andrew Wilson as the coach?! Those Wilson brothers really are something. A delicious something that is.) More after the photo.
Then on Saturday, I finished Confessions of a Dangerous Mind on DVD which also had Ms. Drew Barrymore. She played television show creator and host, Chuck Barris', long time girlfriend Penny. I remember liking the movie more the first time around, but it was still a good rental for a late night, rainy Thursday (although, I only made it through half of it before falling asleep.)
I have mixed feelings about Penny, she is so strong and comfortable about herself that she can be whoever she wants. One time Barris returns from a trip, and Penny tells him, "I'm a hippie now." She doesn't care if he's going to like it or not, that's who she is. As the movie progresses, and Barris becomes more isolated from her and cruel to her, that's when we see Penny become that helpless woman. "Do you even want to be with? Do you even like me? Do you even want me around?" She asks Barris, after he brings a woman to their house and he goes to woo her back. She loses a lot of her identity/agency in this scene. She's not asking herself what she wants. But what can really be expected, when this is a movie adapted from a book that Barris wrote--it wouldn't have a perspective in which Penny is figuring out what she wants, this movie isn't about her perspective. In the end Penny gets her man, which is nice otherwise the movie would just be a little too ominous, too bleak for me.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind also has some heavy hitters--George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and cameos from Matt Damon and Brad Pitt. And I think Drew's performance holds it own.
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