The Anonymous Widower

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart has been one of my heroines ever since I heard a docu-drama about her on Radio 4, many years ago.

So when I saw that Hilary Swank was starring in a biopic, I though this might be a good time to go to the cinema.

But, then I read this review in The Times.

In Amelia, a Hollywood biopic about the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, it’s not just the aircraft that are made of wood. This is a stilted, studio-bound film that fails to achieve lift-off in spite of its subject matter. As Amelia Earhart, the two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank is forced to deliver dialogue that sounds as if it was written in Chinese and then translated into English by a computer: “I’d rather face a watery grave than go on living as a fraud.”

The script is credited to Ron Bass (Rain Man) and Anna Hamilton Phelan (Gorillas in the Mist), but they’ve plumped for pure hack work here.

Oh dear!

November 13, 2009 - Posted by | World | , ,

1 Comment »

  1. I can’t wait until the Ashlee Simpson bio comes out. Remember Ashlee, the chick who was busted lip syncing… it’s OK we forgive her, she’s still an inspiration to us all.

    I would also love to see a bio about Paris Hilton. The way she dresses her dog and shows up at all of the parties and smiles in front of the camera is really brave. I mean, yea, sure, she doesn’t really act or sing or do ANYTHING NOTABLE but she sure is inspirational.

    I think Ashlee Simpson was the perfect choice for Amelia Earhart (she won TWO Oscars!… Just like Obama won the Nobel peace prize at the same time he was at war with two countries). It would be like casting Robert Downey Jr. in the roll of a drug addict or Gary Coleman in the role of a mean black midget. So basically, all they would have to do is just show up and walk around (which is what Amelia Earhart was most famous for). I’m just kidding, we all know that Amelia Earhart became famous for being the world’s first woman to ride shotgun in a plane piloted by a man that crossed the Atlantic… seriously. Then she was the world’s first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Her landing was witnessed by “some Irish farmer dude” who said “Yep, I sare the whole thing!”

    What she was most famous for was trying to fly the plane around the world and crashing into the ocean in the process. This was after she crashed into the end of the runway before she even made it off the ground. The main reason she crashed is because she left all of the important equipment on the ground because she didn’t know how to use any of it.

    There are a lot of notable women in history, I’m sorry but Amelia “My Fraud” Earhart wasn’t one of them.

    Comment by claude fraud | December 20, 2009 | Reply


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