Wednesday
Apr172013
Oscar Flashback: The Leg
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 3:00PM Random Oscar Flashback:
Q: How often do you think of "The Leg"?
My answer is: Embarrassingly Often.
(Your answer is... ?)
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 3:00PM
Reader Comments (21)
Never. In fact, I prefer Jennifer Anniston.
This is off-subject (Angelina in general is never far from my thoughts), but another movie musical to obsess over-hooray!: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/177014-Pippin-Is-Heading-to-the-Silver-Screen-James-Ponsoldt-Enlisted-to-Pen-Adaptation
LOL, all the time! Seriously, went to Europe last year with some friends and we wound up photoshopping a slew of our pictures with 'the leg'!
This right here is a freaking star, people! I loved how she actually seemed to embrace and play with her celebrity in that moment. Bow down to "the leg".
"Embarrassingly Often"
Sounds about right for me, too.
Bitch knew EXACTLY what she was doing.
More often than I ever thought I would.
very often, The leg was integral part of the look. She knew it. We knew it. The world is better for it. I m not a big angelina fan but there's no denying she s a true star and that night she reminded the world of it.
I can't believe people were so mean about it... they should've just enjoyed the Queen of Hollywood being camp. It was awesome.
She's so ridiculous, but, to give her credit, she's every inch a movie star. Case in point: I agree with Andrew: half the time when I'm in a group photo, someone does "the leg" or photoshops it in.
Not at all. I haven't been a fan of hers since the late 1990s, but that leg did briefly wield a mesmerizing power.
She is truly the only woman on the planet who could pull this off.
If Sandra Bullock or Julia Roberts did this, people would be like WTF. They're trying too hard.
If a young starlet like Emma Stone or Emma Watson did this, people would think they are being arrogant or absurd.
Angelina does this and you're like "yeah, this makes sense. She's a star."
That was such a great Oscar moment. One that only Angelina could pull off without complete disdain from the world.
It doesn't help that once in a while in award shows some other stars will bring it back. Most common punchline: Angelina Jolie was not there, but her leg was.
At least once a week. I'm not even going to pretend that it wasn't one of my favourite things about that year's Oscar ceremony.
(I've even magined various Angelina characters doing "the leg".)
I think about the leg often. More specifically, I think she should do a movie as memorable as "The Leg" incident, because as much as I agree that she's a true Hollywood star, she's rarely proven it on screen. Perhaps her next film role should include multiple appearances by the leg in order to rectify this.
Sometimes during the weekends. Generally when i'm wearing the best of my wardrove in front of a mirror....
Angelina is definitely a big big star. But doesn't she have the most unimpressive filmography of all current major stars? When was the last time she was in a good movie? Never to me. Even A Mighty Heart, probably her best recent one, was earnest and completely forgettable.
@murtada...I actually thought she was pretty great in A Mighty Heart...at least more deserving of a nomination than Cate Blanchett's paycheck role in Elizabeth Screams Again.
Only when I see that ridiculous ad for the women's magazine New Idea that has girls who are living in what appears to be an Amish village adopting various "radical" concepts -including copying Angelina's leg pose. It's an Aussie ad.
Actually whenever I see this I think of Adam Hills striking the pose at the 2012 TV Week Logie Awards...
Answer: When I don't have Skinemax.
Whenever I have the impulse to shave my legs, THE leg will appear in my thoughts and I'll go Hmmm... Better not