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[rm]

Cate Blanchett interview:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/15/film.cateblanchett.ap/index.html

"To have someone walk into court who's literally gone to the edges of the known world. How incredible and expansive must that have been for her, her sense of poetry and the possibility of what life could be," Blanchett said. "It was interesting, I found, to play a vicariousness in the relationship with Raleigh, rather than simply making it, here comes Clive Owen, isn't he handsome?

"Which of course he is, and undeniably charming. But to actually sort of say, 'I'd like to BE him.' I've certainly had those experiences. I was talking today about watching the 'Indiana Jones' films. My experience was as a young girl, and of course, you want to kiss Harrison Ford. But I wanted to BE him. I wanted to BE Indiana Jones and have those adventures."

See, this is great. This is one of those experiences that I think lots of young girls have -- "I want to be the hero" and then we learn that we're supposed to want the kiss the hero too or instead. I think we still don't talk about that enough, this idea that role models can be outside gender and that desire can be outside sex.

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[delchi.livejournal.com]

Well alot of times the heroes are supposed to be people to hold ourselves up to. There was a seies of recordings in the 50's called " The Heroes of Democracy " that parised firefighters, policemen and utility workers. the idea of the hero ( and less often the heroine ) was to get people to say " I want to be like that person " and emulate their behavior. This lead to " Well if you want to be strong like Popeye eat your spinach " , and then the first time you eat spinach and can't life a car with one hand it kinda diminishes.

If one in a million exists, wouldn't you want to be that one? I know I did. I wanted to be Dexter Reilly, James Bond, Michael Knight , McGuyver , etc.. etc...

Eventually I became my own blend of those and more.

There is no fun in just knowing that one in a million exists, it's the possibility that you could be the one in a million that makes it interesting. How many people lines up to try to pull the sword from the stone?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Of course I want to be that one in a million, Frank, that's my point.

I'm as ambitious as plagues. All I need to know is that there can be a one in a million to decide it's going to be me.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Well I think that part has already happened. you have already established that you are that one in a million, now the rest is just watching the story develop.

I can see what you mean though - without any example how does one know that one can become the one in a million.

Where I'm standing, part of being one in a million means that there is a responsibility to create the next one in a million. Some day you will hand over a used practice foil into the hands of someone who will cherish it not just because it is a symbol of choice and empowerment, but because it came from you - who is the one in a million.

Imagine how many lives you could change if you published your fencing dairy as a book.