so no one told me about this?

[rm]

http://www.foxsearchlight.com/amelia/

And I only found the ad on the NYT because it was placed on an article about India Day and the airport clusterfuck with Shahrukh Kahn, presumably because Mira Nair is the director.

Considering how Amelia's story ends, I really wonder how Nair is going to make this the big inspirational film this seems to want to be (and that she tends to make). I know what choices I'd make to pull it off, but I also feel like... no way, do real creative professionals make those choices?

Also, Hilary Swank -- always good, but she sorta irks me. I'm always aware of it being Hilary Swank Being A Serious Actor.

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[splix.livejournal.com]

Hilary Swank is wholesome, but dull. Like unflavored tofu.

[mme-furiosa.livejournal.com]

After that really really really crappy romance movie about the chick whose husband dies of cancer, she can never be taken seriously again. Really. She blew it.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, which one was that? I just went through her IMDb dossier and can't find anything that fits that description.

[mme-furiosa.livejournal.com]

P.S. I Love You

I was on a looooong international flight, so I watched it. Terrible from start to finish. I couldn't believe she accepted such a role!

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

I hope it's good, if for no other reason than that it would be nice if not ALL of Christopher Eccleston's movies sucked.

I never understood why Amelia Earhart's life was supposed to be inspirational. She was a mediocre pilot who was turned into a media star by PR people because she looked like Charles Lindbergh. She was always touted as one of those American female role models when I was a kid, but when I finally read about her, I was like, "Jesus, this is depressing."

[rm.livejournal.com]

Ecclesteon's in it? I didn't see him in the trailer.

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

According to that link in your entry, yep, he is. Apparently he plays her navigator.

[rm.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

That's rich!

[heron61.livejournal.com]

That's very cool.

[therealycats.livejournal.com]

She was a mediocre pilot who was turned into a media star by PR people because she looked like Charles Lindbergh.

*is dead*

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/u?/epurdue,380

The woman on the far left is my grandmother. (Purdue, late 1930s)

[rm.livejournal.com]

You look like her. Also, there are lizards.

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

My grandmother had a BA in Science. Back when you could just major in Science.

Lizards!

[tod-hollykim.livejournal.com]

I just learned of it this weekend. There is a small article about it in the Fall Movie issue of Entertainment Weekly just out.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

And it's got Ewan McGregor as Gene Vidal, which I mis-read initially as Gore Vidal, which would certainly be interesting.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

which I mis-read initially as Gore Vidal,

LOLERSKATES.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

McGregor and Eccleston, together again! I wonder if they’ll try to kill each other this time?

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'd forgotten Eccleston was in that!

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

My brother and I refer to Shallow Grave as The Doctor versus Obi-Wan: Cage Match!

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Remember the Coen Brothers movie A Simple Plan? We called Shallow Grave "No Plan At All".

[ophymirage.livejournal.com]

OMG, that was ECCLESTON? WOW. I would never have associated those two roles in my head. Good excuse to re-watch a really excellent thriller...

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Considering how Amelia's story ends, I really wonder how Nair is going to make this the big inspirational film this seems to want to be (and that she tends to make). I know what choices I'd make to pull it off, but I also feel like... no way, do real creative professionals make those choices?

I wondered the same thing. So, how would you do it?

[rm.livejournal.com]

You never see the death or the plane in trouble at all. Her plane was never found. And, assuming I'm Mira Nair, I don't actually go magical realism on it, but I definitely imply it. Also, looking at the rest of the pitch of the trailer, I think the argument is that it doesn't bloody matter that she died, she was still free, so it would have to be framed as all these stupid people grieving for her, but she got away with it all in the end, you know?

[heron61.livejournal.com]

That makes a whole lot of sense. I'd love to see that film have an old-style Peter Weir magical realism ending.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I need to read up a bit on Amelia Earhart's life or what not, but according to the cast listing on IMDB the movie looks like it's going to be a Bechdel fail, not the first thing I look for when I go to a movie. Really not. But I expect better from movies in which the hero is a woman.
I dunno why.
Also, Eccleston really is going through a bad patch with movies, but perhaps this will give him the push to get better (and non-villain! Or Quirky Sidekick) roles.

The trailer is pretty though.

[rm.livejournal.com]

In something set in that era about that subject, I'm not sure a Bechdel pass is possible.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

True, true.

I'm anachronistic at times :P

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

She was filming that in Toronto ages ago. I love Mira Nair - one of my favourite directors. So, the NYT dumped all the South Asian-related stories together in one article?