Sep 12 2005
I’m too pretty for prison.
Not sure why the subject line struck me. It was a random comment I caught elsewhere, but I can’t help laughing.
It’s strange movie day in WalkerWorld. First I watched Stepford Wives, with Matthew Broderick and Nicole Kidman. I don’t think I got it. I mean, I enjoyed seeing Christopher Walken as the slightly goofy, slightly creepy head of Stepford. (For those who’ve seen the movie, pun fully intended.) From there I moved on to The Business of Fancydancing. It’s still playing, in fact. It’s odd because the main character was in Smoke Signals, which I watched a week or three ago, and I can’t help cross-referencing the two characters. They’re not at all alike - one is a gay poet, the other was childlike storyteller. Great movies, though Fancydancing borders on being a documentary.
It’s the combination that makes the movies strange. In a way, both movies are about being forced into popular white culture. (All three, for that matter.) They just approach the idea from very, very different perspectives.
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