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in my blog silence in order to finish writing this damn book but i saw testament of youth last night and have been spluttering ever since now this is a very pretty and very sad film and the first part of the film follows the real life vera brittain s memoir nicely in which she fights her way into oxford university against her father s wishes and along the way against her own wishes falls in love with her brother s friend roland only to have war break out in 1914 as she remembered it later the war initially came to me not as a superlative tragedy but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans she spent the war s aftermath trying to come to terms with the meaning of that war and the multiple tragedies it unleashed testament of youth remains one of the most powerful and important feminist pacifist intellectual reckonings of that era and that generation but this film focuses instead on how pretty these people were and how sad it is when someone dies other than a brief moment at the end when brittain alicia vikander speaks up on behalf of peace and postwar reconciliation at a raucous political meeting the film skims over or skips everything that really mattered to the real life brittain her relationship with winifred holtby her agonizing efforts to make sense of the war her political and feminist work to a postscript that assures us that she found someone else and married in 1925 oh no no no this film is all heartbreaking scenes at railway stations and all manner of men gazing at vera longingly that s right instead of a powerful political assessment this film is simply a woman s weeper made for repetition on the lifetime channel you can say that i was ruined for this film because i d read the book in fact my very first induction into the magic of the bbc world of miniseries came in the early 80s when my mom and i sat ourselves down every sunday night to watch the 275 minute version of testament of youth starring cheryl campbell does anyone know how i can get that series on a region 1 dvd but even if i was a total novice to the subject matter this film is empty of anything but aesthetic pleasure and pathos this should have been the movie for me a female lead based on a feminist text a period drama with great clothes but no matter how many tears i shed during the screening i found myself increasingly exasperated during the film s final third to the point that my jaw dropped when it ended before any of what mattered to the real life brittain made it in i ll give it this the clothes are fantastic really i wanted to run my hands all over those beautiful fabrics but more problematic it has the worst male lead ever kit harington as roland is okay back to writing things that result in book contracts promotion etc apologies for going awol friends but i ve got to get some work done posted by didion filed in 2010s films costume dramas testament of youth the curious case of women in film vera brittain weepers women s films why feminism matters now tags alicia vikander kit harington testament of youth woman s weeper world war i 14 comments pitch my tv movie version of the bob mcdonnell corruption case 31 august 2014 enjoying the delicious sleaze that is the mcdonnell trial well obviously what we need is the tv movie version to clarify it here s my plan i m going to quit my job and focus all my attention on developing the screenplay of the entire case i think a six hour tv event on one of the cheesier cable tv channels lifetime syfy cinemax will be ideal the hardest part is finding a good actor to portray bob the virginia governor who finds himself allegedly in a tortured marriage and too poor to play with the big money boys yet also prone to a christian public sphere in which the state mandates trans vaginal ultrasounds to women seeking abortion if this is the real bob then i m thinking we can age matt damon a bit to portray him on the small screen damon has a lifetime of playing morally ambivalent and downright creepy characters talented mr ripley bourne the departed in ways that will flesh out the true glory that is mcdonnell okay we ll age him a bit now that that s solved on to the maureen mcdonnell conundrum which i solved the minute this scandal began to break how to portray a woman relegated to the sidelines as bob s better half but without any of the cash to look the part how to portray the woman who s apparently taking the fall for her husband voluntarily or not it s not clear by having his lawyers portray her as the real villain in the case the real maureen has had a tough role to play for years now so clearly the ideal actor to portray her is heather locklear yes the perennially sharp tongued star of melrose place in its glory days of the 90s as well apparently as the 2009 10 reboot of the series which i regrettably missed i don t know about you but i can hardly wait to see this series and best of all is the casting of jonnie williams the ceo of star scientific the creepy tobacco product based health tonic company the real life jonnie has a look in his eye that for me evokes a combination of an unpredictable willy wonka and frank underwood from house of cards so clearly kevin spacey is my dream version of williams what do you think will my tv movie version be more worth watching than the real life tawdryness of the mcdonnell s marriage getting dissected in court every week posted by didion filed in feminema s awesome plot ideas women in politics 1 comment greatest review of garden state ever 15 august 2014 just do yourself a favor and read lindy west s i re watched garden state and will never feel again over at jezebel you will laugh you will never watch garden state again a snippet natalie portman s character claims to be a human being but is actually a genie that exists entirely within the mind of zach braff s dreaming penis much has already been written about this so i will not rehash it in great detail she tap dances she lies puckishly she emcees somber hamster funerals she introduces strangers to her blankie she figure skates in a crushed velvet alligator costume she wears an epilepsy helmet just long enough to facilitate a wise and bittersweet moment and then never wears it again she walks over to her record player and opens the lid but doesn t put a record on just to make very sure you know she has one here are some words that zach braff wrote down for natalie portman to say throughout the course of the movie my hair s blowin in the wind can we have code names you know what i do when i feel completely unoriginal worst thing ever happens i make a noise or do something that no one has ever done before then i can feel unique again even if it s only for a second if you can t laugh at yourself life s going to seem a whole lot longer than you d like i m weird man oh are you tell me more if i were say 15 years younger i would aspire to such writing but at my advanced age i think it would be unseemly still i envy her final two sentences with a passion that rivals what i feel for a certain pair of boots that cost an amount i am not allowed to spend on anything whatsoever blecch garden state posted by didion filed in 2000s films natalie portman tags garden state natalie portman zach braff 4 comments the manly thick eyebrow a complaint about scandal 14 august 2014 i like scandal 2012 present because i can t think of a better way than giving my brain a luscious sugary treat than sitting down to watch olivia pope kerry washington do anything whatsoever my only complaint i just don t find president grant tony goldwyn attractive and after two years of mulling over the problem i ve decided that it s because his eyebrows aren t thick enough that s right of all the inane random things to write about i m writing about men s eyebrows and it s not just fitz the whole show is littered with men with light eyebrows so at the risk of embarrassing myself further let me offer a visual history of thick brows that have titillated me throughout my personal life in rough chronological order as i discovered them gregory peck as atticus finch alan bates in case you don t recognize him george clooney from the er days ahh that feels better back to more serious feminist work soon i promise posted by didion filed in 1960s films 1970s films 1980s films 1990s films 2000s films beautiful images i like to look at george clooney silly whatever that i find amusing tags alan bates davy jones george clooney gregory peck javier bardem kerry washington nicolas cage scandal shaun cassidy tony goldwyn 4 comments my valley girl accent manifesto and the arrival of riot grrrl 12 august 2014 it sounds silly now of course when someone starts up in valspeak she sounds stupid but let me explain how wrong and simplistic that is i m going to argue that riot grrrl was born of valley girl just wait till you seen how i get there it didn t sound stupid if you were younger than say 15 in the early 80s when the valley girl accent began circulating on shows like square pegs and the classic moon zappa song and thence into schoolyards everywhere that s how kathleen hanna revered feminist lead singer of riot grrrl bands like bikini kill le tigre and now the julie ruin explains her adoption of the accent while a pre teen in maryland we wanted to be the kinds of girls who had credit cards she remembers in the terrific documentary the punk singer 2013 now streaming on netflix to her it sounded posh the voice of rich girls one of her friends adds that it just goes to show you that you be just like some valley girl and you still can be smart and have feminist ideas and should be listened to another perk watching this doc puts the song rebel girl in your head for days i was never as dedicated to valspeak as hanna she still talks that way but i can attest to its appeal back then it sounded smart i know right but valley girls were fast talkers quick witted opinionated and they pronounced everything perfectly in those clipped accents they had a lot to say let us not forget cher alicia silverstone in clueless 1995 a second generation valley girl whose speeches regularly inspired applause from her classmates if you were young it was easy to hear this as smart as girls figuring out what they had to say by holding forth it was funny moon zappa s song was a spoof on the dimwitted female mall shoppers out in the deeply suburban san fernando valley much farther from la than you might imagine if you re not from there and i m pretty sure we all understood that but those who heard this only as mocking of the girls were missing something to me it sounded self mocking with all those ohmigod s and i m so sure s girls talked this way in part because they knew they were being funny and they got a charge from being part of the fun it was a dialect unique to girls and therefore it became a part of girl culture one of the many ways that girls created a world unto themselves sure it had tinges of sameness and uniformity but different girl groups innovated endlessly on its basic elements always developing new ways to speak to each other and to cloak their girl talk from outsiders i never heard the valley guy version of this talk in the same way it lacked the private club aspects of valley girl talk but maybe that s because i wasn t a part of those clubs it allowed you to do fun things with your voice valley girls ran the gamut of the vocal scales just a single ohmigod required the speaker to cock one s voice up a couple of octaves midway and then allow the voice to collapse back to earth of its own weight the accent is partly so distinctive not for what girls say than for the kooky musical sound of their rambling sentences like a bouncy new wave pop song of that era doing that stuff with your voice required practice just like learning to dance like belinda carlisle of the go gos the documentary about kathleen hanna makes a point of discussing her valley girl accent because it seems incongruous how is it that such a diehard feminist a woman who scrawled incest on her chest screamed into the microphone sang about sexual abuse and changed the masculine culture of those punk nightclubs could speak in a way that undermines the seriousness of her words after all long ago i learned to stop talking that way in order to be taken seriously but that stereotype has been twisted by time and by the ongoing cultural sense that anything girls do must be stupid valspeak wasn t just a marker of stupid girls saying stupid things nor was it a supreme moment of girl stupidity that had to be repudiated by the riot grrrls of the 90s let me say something controversial riot grrrl was a movement that stood on the shoulders of valley girl with valley girl we learned to talk quickly smartly to each other it was of a piece with the dribs and drabs of female rock music of the era the pretenders joan jett pat benatar the go gos blondie annie lennox siouxie sioux etc that had a lot to say about being female could hanna s overt feminism have been far behind sigh the only downside of watching the punk singer is realizing how far we ve fallen since the glory days of riot grrrl i hanna rebel girl you re the queen of my world posted by didion filed in 1980s films 2010s films the curious case of women in film the punk singer the woman problem in the media why feminism matters now women in rock tags annie lennox bikini kill blondie joan jett kathleen hanna le tigre moon zappa pat benatar rebel girl siouxie sioux square pegs the go gos the julie ruin the pretenders the punk singer valley girl valley guy song 2 comments orange is the new black has the best antagonist ever it s a woman 10 august 2014 this is lorraine toussaint as yvonne vee parker we might call her a new character in orange is the new black s second season but she s well known to two of litchfield s current inmates for complicated reasons she is the best female antagonist i ve ever seen and one of the best antagonists ever to taystee danielle williams vee is the foster mother who finally gave her a home sure that home was the locus of a powerful drug corporation but vee knew how to inspire loyalty and a sense of family and we can see her use exactly the right strings to pull taystee back to transform her into the loyal soldier she used to be before prison in flashbacks we learn exactly how vee has earned such loyalty from taystee by providing exactly that feeling of belonging and family as well as just the right dose of race pride that her life lacked beforehand moreover vee is the best possible mother smart powerful admirable the fact that she runs a drug empire is incidental to her maternal effects on the lonely taystee once taystee is on board vee pursues the loyalty of a small group of other young black women to build her prison family using a variety of the same techniques carefully calibrated to each woman maternal gentleness tough love gestures to racial unity and vague promises of uplift and power but not taystee s gay best 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