July 28, 2006

A summertime question for the cinetrix.

Readers of pullquote know the cinetrix as one of the most entertaining film bloggers out there. Observations on films are often laced with more than a few zingers and an ever-so-slight peek at what's going on offline. So I had to ask: "What actor/actress has come closest to depicting a moment in your own life?"

Raiders of the Lost Ark Two come to mind, and for different reasons. The first is aspirational, to be sure, and you can all just stifle your snorts of disbelief and muttered Get a load of hers right now: Karen Allen's Marion in Raiders of the Lost Ark in the drinking contest in her Tibetan bar. Her mouthy model led me to spend my callow youth cracking wise and throwing back shots with the gents, although my results, not surprisingly, often varied. Oh, and there was no pirate ship. More's the pity.

The second is Catherine Keener's Amelia in Walking and Talking. Again, I don't presume for a moment that I look like Keener. But her lonely third-wheel editor who fears losing her friend Laura to marriage and so tumbles into a relationship with the "ugly guy" at the video store so perfectly captured two distinct, painful moments in my own life that when I finished watching it, I immediately rewound it and watched it again. Plus, there's that great Billy Bragg soundtrack.



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Posted by dwhudson at July 28, 2006 10:42 AM