I can't believe this canny blogger made it into a major motion picture (google it, I can't be bothered.)
What a fucking canard. Some stupid fuck decides to make *every* recipe from a fucking Julia Child book, blogs about it, and now there's a fucking major *motion picture* (as those assholes in the industry continue to refer to it).
What is this world coming to when some idiot from Queens can lace some diatribe-laden blog mixed with shit about Julia Child? What the fuck???? Is it like the guy who decided to sell one-pixel ads on his website to raise a million?
But this one makes my blood boil. Where's MY fucking motion picture, you asshole morons from Hollywood? Are you so easily scammed? Her blog was a crock of shit and I thought so at the time. She quickly abandoned it when the offers started coming in. It was a piece of shit then and no doubt the movie is going to be a piece of shit -- it's almost guaranteed, since Meryl Streep is involved.
Uh . . .that's right. Meryl Streep playing Julia Child with some wannabe playing a wannabe.
THAT is what is not right with the world, my faithful few, some things just don't JIBE WITH THE UNIVERSE and this is one.
Just fucking unbelievable. Excuse the Greek.
Who will play you in the movie?
ReplyDeleteOmar Sharif.
ReplyDeleteFWIW, it's really more of a Julia Child biopic than it is about the blogger. I saw the movie, and it was light fare but quite charming. Street embodies Julia Child so much it's scary, and Amy Adams (who isn't a wannabe) is quirky and charming and only somewhat annoying.
ReplyDeleteTo be precise, the movie is a merge of Child's bio "My Life in France") and the silly blogger thing, and it parallels them nicely.
That said, I'm with you on the frustration of seeing this one blogger make it so big on such a silly concept, but hey, that's the society we live in.
That should be "Streep" embodies Julia Child...
ReplyDeleteYeah, I saw a couple of previews and of course, being the masterful actress she is, she nails it.
ReplyDeleteBut what pisses me off is that such trivial exploitation is created around someone so influential.
Hollywood will, I swear, take anything for a subject. But could we just get a biopic on Julia Child instead of having some wannabe involved? (I don't mean "wannabe" with the actress, just with the real-life person who's exploiting it to the max).
I followed the "Julie" story while it was happening and it was just such a blatant grab for "whatdom" that it kind of reminds me of Jackson Pollock: get drunk, throw lots of paint at a canvas, and hey, you'll make it eventually!
Either that or design the Georges Pompidou Centre!
Sorry, cynical Nick emerges. I piss Brigitte off because I despise "chick flicks." But mixing some person from New Jersey into a movie about Julia Child, is heresy, kind of like making Brad Pitt do a bio of Jacques Pepin with Leonardo de Caprio as his sous-chef.
Least, dat's what I'm thinkin'.
ok...I agree to a certain extent: I am sick and tired of all the publicity this movie is getting!!! it's everywhere!!!
ReplyDeleteI will end up watching, because I do like Meryl Streep, and Julia Child is a food icon, whether we like it or not, and I do want to know a bit more about the first tV chef, at least she went to culinary school, we can't say that about 99.9% food network people these days.
And I do hate Amy Adams...and that blogger she plays has no talent in writing whatsoever.
It's just an interesting phenomenon.
And I should get a movie too!
ReplyDeleteYes, you damn well should! After all, you create your OWN recipes rather than slavishly following every ingredient in a book.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure Julia Child meant it that way -- after all, she fucked up all the time, live on TV, and laughed through it, but the "Julia" thing is just too stupid.How it ever made its way to a movie theatre is WAAAAYYYY beyond me, but hey, there was Sleepless In Seattle.
Hey, maybe I'll make all of Escoffier's recipes in a year! Yup, Duck à foie gras gratinée avec venison!
Make a fucking movie about THAT, Mr. Spielberg!
Putain de merde. Who do YOU want to play you in the movie, Arlette?
uh...no idea...I can't think of anybody who remotely looks like me!!!
ReplyDeleteBTW, Julia Child was not impressed with the Julie/Julia project. She thought it was frivolous and that Julie was not taking the cooking seriously. Interestingly, this is brought up in the movie.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to think Julia Child had a brain. I don't know. If someone slavishly imitated ME on any level, I'd wonder at their sanity, but that's just me.
ReplyDeleteOf course the woman was not taking the cooking seriously. She bitched and moaned through the whole thing. And like I said, she dropped everything like a hot cardoon when she sniffed any interest from Hollywool/Vanity Circus. Astonishing that this actually made its way to the cutting-room floor.
Restores your admiration for idiocy.