Life Moves Pretty Fast by Hadley Freeman

Author:Hadley Freeman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

* * *

I. Faludi doesn’t mention Kramer vs. Kramer in her discussion of 1970s films as a feminist utopia, but I of all people can hardly criticize her for providing a selective view of a decade’s movies.

II. For a start, there were other movies around that were far smarter about male infidelity than Fatal Attraction, such as, for example, Moonstruck. In this movie, Olympia Dukakis has to contend with her aged husband’s compulsive womanizing. But because this movie was sensible and not stupid like Fatal Attraction—or, more recently, the appalling The Other Woman (2014)—Moonstruck shows that marriage is about more than just point-scoring, infidelity is about more than just sex, and the betrayed wife is a smart woman in her own right. So don’t watch Fatal Attraction—watch Moonstruck.

III. One day I shall write a book about the mighty titles of feminist texts and studies. They are all reliably awesome.

IV. See: the oeuvre of the Cure and New Order—in the eighties, obviously.

V. Says Hadley, madly.

VI. Stacy L. Smith et al., “Inequality in 700 Popular Films,” Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California.

VII. Manohla Dargis, “Report Finds Wide Diversity Gap Among 2014’s Top Grossing Films,”New York Times, August 5, 2015.

VIII. One of my favorite newspaper columns in the world is the New York Times’ By the Book series, in which famous people discuss their favorite writers. Almost invariably, readers cleave to their own gender: Bruce Springsteen, for example, mentioned thirty-seven authors, only two of whom were women.

IX. New York Times’ Manohla Dargis pointed out that when Michael Mann’s 2001 film Ali failed to make back its costs, his career was barely affected and he directed big-budget films for Paramount and Universal soon after. When Kathryn Bigelow’s 2002 adventure film, K19: The Widowmaker, didn’t recoup its costs, she didn’t make another film until 2007 and it was funded by a French company. “Ms. Bigelow is one of the greatest action directors working today, and it’s hard not to wonder why failure at the box office doesn’t translate the same for the two sexes,” Dargis writes in “Women in the Seats but Not Behind the Camera,”New York Times, December 10, 2009.

X. An interview with Kathleen Turner is pretty much all that you want it to be. Sadly I can’t print everything she told me without fear of being sued for libel by half of Hollywood. But if you ever have the opportunity to spend an afternoon with her, I highly recommend it.

XI. Told you.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.