another great post from the jjared site
# 510 Alena @ 11/29/2007 at 11:46 pm I LOVE movies. My DVD collection is 300+ strong. Seen everything from Metropolis to Pink Flamingo. My mother co-owns a catering/craft service that provides food service for movies and photo shoots. My father is an armourer. I grew up on movie sets and I still (occasionally) help my mom out on local shoots.
Some of you must really be miserable to harbor so much antipathy for people you don’t know. I’ll list some facts, but even with knowledge I doubt if some of you can buy your souls back and face the truth…
- Ms. Jolie is probably the only actress in Hollywood who could legitimately have an action-hero franchise (i.e., Lara Croft). She has the chops to believably shoot guns and swing from rafters. She sucker-punched a shark in the second Lara Croft movie. She never looks silly.
-Marlena Dietrich was delayed at an airport and noticed the people around her. After a good look at her fellow travelers she stated that now she “understood why stars made so much money, ordinary people are so ugly”. Joan Crawford said “if you want to look at the girl next door, go next door”. Audiences want Mega-Beauty Queens and their hot romances.
Think Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, Marilyn and Joe, Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, Ava Gardner and Frank.
What did our generation get? Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Hudson, good girls whose prom gowns hung on their bony shoulders and who hit their points with beautiful middle-class manners.
Angelina saved us.
A real star that people want to see, talk about, be.
She has brought back the big, beautiful, silty riverbed of American romance: queen of the photo op, good-will ambassador for the U.N., free-loving promiscuite, rippling action hero, adoptive mom, daughter of a Hollywood duke of the 70′s, Oscar winner…
Few women would begrudge their lover a night with Angelina Jolie. It’s different. She inspires curiosity above all else.
She’s been charged with breaking up a marriage that most Hollywood consumers happily and delusionally believed was perfect.
That would be the Pitt-Anistons
Of course Brad Pitt is having an affair with Angelina Jolie! Of course cries of glorious satisfaction can be heard from Sierra Leone to Swaziland!
Talk about a new role model! What woman wouldn’t want to be gamboling with her son and “lover,” platonically building sand castles on the beach at a luxury resort on the coast of Kenya? Still, rather than feeling threatened that someone like her walks the earth, plenty of women feel liberated by her for a complicated reason: Despite her packaging, she manages to move and feel like a man. And she somehow communicates the fact that she might act on those feelings.
- Jennifer = Rachel the girl who came on TV every week for how ever many number of weeks that was. Her image is built on being the ultimate Californian girl next door. Goodlooking enough, carefully blond hair, tanned to perfection. Doesn’t do much besides doing the californian girl thing, tanning, eating out, and walking her dogs and being with her best friend, Courtney. Jennifer isn’t threatening. You can imagine yourself being her – at least, that’s what the image says. For those of us who find Angelina someone to admire, we wouldn’t aspire to be Jennifer. She isn’t someone an emotional secure woman would look up to.
Angelina, at 32, who is nothing like any girl next door you’d ever meet. Truly beautiful, sexy, dangerous, complicated. She’s dangerous but she’ll mother her children. She’s beautiful AND smart. She doesn’t give a damn about what people might say about her bisexuality or her tattoos but she cares a lot about what people might say about DARFUR. Most women simply can never imagine being Angelina. Those who are emotionally secure or seeking inspiration would find Angelina someone to aspire to and admire. Those who are emotionally insecure just find her too threatening, and want to bring her down. The tabloids will cater to the latter class of woman, unfortunately.
JMHO, carry on.
Great site Jared!
