Advantages: Award worthy performances,strong screenplay Disadvantages: the subject might not appeal to many
Julia and Julia is director Nora Ephron's adaptation of two books:one written by Julia Child and another by Julie Powell.Any film that takes life from life itself is usually good and this film is no different.
The film tells the story of Julia Child,the author of the famous cookbook and Julie Powell,a simple working woman who decides to make Julia's recipes by herself and decides to write a blog about it.The two stories(one set in 1940s when Julia was young and another set in 2002 when Julie is reading Julia's book) run parallely on screen and unfolds gradually on screen. Both women share lot of similarities in their respective lives and the director lays it down beautifully for the viewer to experience.
If you feel this is a film for women,you are certainly mistaken.Yes,the central characters are women and it involves cooking ...
Advantages: Interesting read Disadvantages: Nothing about her recent times
That's Another Story is the autobiography which has been written by Julie Walters. Julie was born in 1950 in Smethwick in Birmingham. She had a happy childhood and starts to book by telling us about growing up and all about her family. Julie talk a lot about life at home with her parents and what it was like when her Grandmother came to live with them. She feels that she learnt a lot from her Grandmother and that is why she is so good at playing the old lady parts.
As she grew up she found she did not do too well at school and was shocked when she got accepted into a girls school. She found her place as the class comedian and this is how she passed her time at school. She later found she had no interest in further education like her brothers had go on to do. After leaving school she decided she would try and get herself a job but she ...
Advantages: Mostly characterization? plus the play is short and makes a good read Disadvantages: A little painful like all tragedies
Miss Julie OR Countess Julie (1888)
A tragedy in one act
By
August Strindberg (1849 - 1912)
Like any other "classic" tragedy, August Strindberg's Miss Julie represents the fall of its heroine; she is a beautiful and rich twenty-five year old woman who committed the terrible sin of having sex with her servant. Well, things are a little more complicated than this, so let's examine her character. Julie's parents collaborated in preventing her from owning a clear gender; her mother wasn't of noble birth, she believed in equality and freedom, was dominant and taught her daughter, Julie, everything that a boy should know. Her father's subservience to his wife and subsequent incident he was fooled in, caused the little girl to hate men from some time, and then even when she found out the truth, she never managed to have a clear idea ...
