Thursday
Sep122013
Thoughts I Had... While Staring at this Image from "Maps to the Stars"
Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 12:00PM David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars (2014) just released this image featuring Sarah Gadon and Julianne Moore.
my thoughts presented to you in order they appeared...
- I welcome a good scalp massage but I'm not sure I'd want one in the context of a David Cronenberg movie. Too many orifices!
- My visine drops repulse me this morning. Drip this movie on my eyeballs RIGHT NOW
- Is Sarah Gadon the new _________ ?
- This is Sarah Gadon's fourth movie directed by someone named Cronenberg.
- Do Father & Son Cronenberg have some sort of sick threeway relationship going on with her straight out of a Cronenberg movie? Do they tie her up with rubber hoses and talk dirty about her mutant vagina?
- Sarah Gadon does the most amazing blank face acting. She's beautiful, sure, but the beauty is blonde generic. And yet... her face is unsettling in its robotic disinterest (Cosmopolis), society frivolity (Belle), pregnant concern (Enemy) or weird ball-and-chainery (A Dangerous Method)
- I have guilt for skipping Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral
- Will Julianne Moore remember what it means to be an auteur vessel after all these disappointing or at least non-challenging movies of late? It's been a long time since the Haynes days
- I have touched Julianne Moore twice (handshake 2002 / hug 2010) but she was not naked on a table
- If you touch Julianne Moore's ginger locks, all your wounds are healed. True fact. Sarah Gadon will live to be 100.
- Sarah Gadon plays a character named "Clarice". Julianne Moore surely winced every time she spoke the name.
- I keep forgetting what this movie is about but I like to be surprised so don't tell me!
Reader Comments (18)
My God Nathaniel - how wonderfully unhinged of you. Thanks so much for sharing. Lol
I feel Moore has been gr8 lately A single man,the kids are all right,what maisie knew.
My initial reaction was seeing the ginger at the top of the image and assuming it was Julianne looking miraculous under Cronenberg's direction. Then under further investigation Julianne is under the younger ginger looking like the mother from Brazil.
...the new Diane Kruger? At least, in this picture.
Re: Julianne Moore's recent roles, I have to speak up for her performance in WHAT MAISIE KNEW. I thought she was terrific in that, and the film itself was quite good & more than a little underrated.
Female Dexter is the first thing I thought of. Cronenberg, the table, the gingers. And even Clarice.
WHAT MAISIE KNEW was a positive surprise. I do like it when Ms. Moore is doing wild Bohemian characters who are struggling to maintain. She does that so well.
I'm full on-board the Sarah Gadon train. More work for her, please, but may she expand beyond the borders of Canada.
Nathan, you must have more immediate and rapid thought capacity in your brain than most mortals. I'm picking my jaw off the ground while typing with one hand.
I really like Sarah Gadon. She traps my soul with her blank face.
"all these disappointing or at least non-challenging movies of late"
COME ON! The Kids Are All Right was highly acclaimed and her performances in What Maisie Knew, Game Change and A Single Man were great. The thing is that she shouldn't do so much unnecessary stuff in between, and the real problem were most of her choices 2003-2007, full of crap-movies.
But I agree, the last *really* fascinating cinematic stuff she did was Blindness (brilliant, underrated performance), and before that (aside from her small role in Children of Men) Far From Heaven. So yes, it's fantastic to see her working with a true auteur again.
You should give Antiviral a shot. Gadon is really good in a limited role as this sort of ultra-celebrity avatar. Definitely a promising start for Cronenberg Minor.
Sarah Gadon is the new... Gracy Kelly.
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Sarah needs to be Estella in Great Expectations... there should be another remake coming up in the next couple months. Ha!
Julianne was great in Tom Kalin's terribly underrated SAVAGE GRACE...
I kinda group Gadon together with Brit Marling due to their blankness. But Sarah (or rather her directors) seems to be able to utilize it in really intriguing ways whereas Brit has a flatness that either works for the character or doesn't (sometimes in the same film). There's an element of danger to Sarah Gadon that I like.
I forgot Victor Young's music for Love Letters. Haunting.