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Haiku Thursday: The Bio-Pick

by Liz

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So, Liam Neeson
emancipates the slaves and
wears a high silk hat?

I was going to write about the state of the modern biopic–or biographical picture, as we fuddy-duddies prefer–and how they’re really playgrounds for art and casting directors. I had a whole thesis, points, rebuttals, etc. But I saw a list of upcoming biography films, and couldn’t go on. Seriously. Take a look at this:

-The aforementioned Neeson as Abraham Lincoln (Weird, yes, but the resemblance is actually sort of uncanny, if you squint a bit)
-Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen (not to be all fuddiduddical again, but COME ON)
-Elijah Wood as Iggy Pop
-Some kind of Jeff Buckley movie, currently uncast
-And don’t even get me started on the whole weird J-Lo/Marc Anthony vanity project deal. Ugh.

I can, however, get thoroughly behind Zooey Deschanel as Janis Joplin. Girlfriend can sing. I nod approvingly in her direction.

Maybe I’ll get back to that thesis, with the points and the rebuttals, sometime. For now, I’m just going to go think fond memories of The Queen.

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Posted in Actors, Coming Attractions, Haiku Thursday, Rant on May 10th, 2007

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  1. Cinema Hype » Blog Archive » The Netflix Report: All the Real Girls Says:
    October 16th, 2007 at 11:48 pm

    [...] there are some things to love in All the Real Girls. Zooey Deschanel (next up as Janis Joplin!) and Paul Schneider are both excellent, natural on camera and transparent in a way that probably [...]

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