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Seeing Julie and Julia tonight...so excited.
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amanda_pennsylvania
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Yes! I have had to sit on my hands not to read that thread.
I am going to wear pearls tonight in honor of Julia.
I am going to wear pearls tonight in honor of Julia.
shaun-in-to
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But don't we all know what happened to Julia? (Or, do we particularly care what happens to Julie?)
amanda_pennsylvania
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Julie and Julia...random thoughts...spoilers inside.
Overall, cute movie. I grew up in the diplomatic service, and it really reminded of my mother when we moved to Brussels--trying to learn French as an adult and exploring all the food markets. Mom would have gotten a kick out of this movie.
As usual, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci acted circles around the youngsters. (See: The Devil Wears Prada.) I liked how the husbands were portrayed as supportive spouses...I think there are lots of husbands like that out there and they don't get enough screen time. We only see the jerks.
But I think the ending fizzled. It seemed very anti-climactic to me to end with them wandering around a Smithsonian exhibit of Julia Child's kitchen. I don't know what I would have done, but I wasn't satisfied with the ending.
The Julie story is clearly the weaker of the two. I was fascinated by the difference in maturity level between the two women. Julie Powell turned 30 over the course of her blog, Julia Child was 38 when she moved to Paris. Eight year shouldn't make such a difference, but I always felt like I was watching an adult when Julia was onscreen. Not so with Julie. She seemed like a whiny brat, having meltdowns over nothing very important. It wasn't clear to me that she grew significantly over the course of the film; perhaps I just wasn't that much invested in her.
Of course, it's partly generational. And the clothes. smileys/smile.gif
It was interesting to me that both women used fairly new technologies to communicate about cooking. TV and the Internet weren't really new, of course, but using TV to teach and blogging were both pretty new applications in their respective times.
I'll stop here before I write an essay...back to work!
Overall, cute movie. I grew up in the diplomatic service, and it really reminded of my mother when we moved to Brussels--trying to learn French as an adult and exploring all the food markets. Mom would have gotten a kick out of this movie.
As usual, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci acted circles around the youngsters. (See: The Devil Wears Prada.) I liked how the husbands were portrayed as supportive spouses...I think there are lots of husbands like that out there and they don't get enough screen time. We only see the jerks.
But I think the ending fizzled. It seemed very anti-climactic to me to end with them wandering around a Smithsonian exhibit of Julia Child's kitchen. I don't know what I would have done, but I wasn't satisfied with the ending.
The Julie story is clearly the weaker of the two. I was fascinated by the difference in maturity level between the two women. Julie Powell turned 30 over the course of her blog, Julia Child was 38 when she moved to Paris. Eight year shouldn't make such a difference, but I always felt like I was watching an adult when Julia was onscreen. Not so with Julie. She seemed like a whiny brat, having meltdowns over nothing very important. It wasn't clear to me that she grew significantly over the course of the film; perhaps I just wasn't that much invested in her.
Of course, it's partly generational. And the clothes. smileys/smile.gif
It was interesting to me that both women used fairly new technologies to communicate about cooking. TV and the Internet weren't really new, of course, but using TV to teach and blogging were both pretty new applications in their respective times.
I'll stop here before I write an essay...back to work!
Spoilers inside
Yes, Julia did seem more mature but we were in those days. "Teen agers" were invented right after the war with Seventeen magazine. Before that you were a child till you graduated eighth grade or H.S. depending on your economic and social class and an adult after that, not this endless adolescence. I know the ending seemed anti-climatic but that was exactly how Julie ended the book. I would have loved to have seen the early TV shows but there are plenty of other Julia books which give this and could be made into films. I expect Julia's criticism of Julie was partly due to the language she used in her blogs. I'm so glad they didn't make sweet little Amy use that language. I'm several years younger than Julia was but I am often shocked at the crudeness and vulgarity of female comedians. We early feminists kind of expected that equality would not mean the lowest common denominator.
Yes, Julia did seem more mature but we were in those days. "Teen agers" were invented right after the war with Seventeen magazine. Before that you were a child till you graduated eighth grade or H.S. depending on your economic and social class and an adult after that, not this endless adolescence. I know the ending seemed anti-climatic but that was exactly how Julie ended the book. I would have loved to have seen the early TV shows but there are plenty of other Julia books which give this and could be made into films. I expect Julia's criticism of Julie was partly due to the language she used in her blogs. I'm so glad they didn't make sweet little Amy use that language. I'm several years younger than Julia was but I am often shocked at the crudeness and vulgarity of female comedians. We early feminists kind of expected that equality would not mean the lowest common denominator.