Tuesday, November 15, 2011

My Week With Marilyn

My week with Marilyn is one of the most innocent love stories to hit cinema screens in recent years, and one of the most satisfying.

It's also a pretty insightful story about film making, especially the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl in 1957, an adaptation of the comedy Terrence Rattigan stage. The film stars Marilyn Monroe at the height of his fame and Sir Laurence Olivier, who at age 50, was the most acclaimed in the world of Shakespearean actor - or should we say "aging Shakespearean actor and idol the previous morning. "It was also its director.

Not surprisingly, the idea of ​​a product Olivier / Monroe eagerly awaited by both moviegoers could not conceive of such a coupling. In fact, writes Philip K. Sheu the Los Angeles Times: "It is hard to imagine that moviegoers farther apart than the followers of Miss Marilyn Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier, who are usually separated by more than one ocean."

The plot is simple enough: In London, the Grand Duchy Charles, the Prince Regent and the Carpathia, he finds himself pulled a seemingly average American actress and invites him to his embassy, ​​which will be a celebration without night. Named after the maid, Elsie Marina, believed to have been invited to the party Royal respectable. Everyone gets less than what he / she first expected - and more. In addition, there is a page of real history, but if you're really curious, watch a movie. And 'there for free on YouTube.

Behind the scenes peek at the conclusion that the film is what My Week with Marilyn hired, and succeeds magnificently. Adrian Hodges script is based on the delightful memoir by the upper class, Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), who at the age of 23 years, dismissed as a sort of Gopher is set up, just graduated. Thanks for your Moxie young man refused to believe that the dream did not materialize, he discovered that the conflict Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Monroe (Michelle Williams), who practiced a work ethic quite different. Olivier has worked, and well; Monroe wanted to work, but often you can do this thanks to a mixture of drugs, alcohol, off-kilter married playwright Arthur Miller, miscarriage, rampant uncertainty, and his love / hate relationship with a reputation.

Colin is in love quickly, Monroe toys, and even if he suspects that such a relationship going nowhere, he is too inexperienced in life to guard his heart.

When the wise direction of Brit Simon Curtis and presentations Bravura, all cables and superb supporting cast (which includes as Judi Dench, Emma Watson, Derek Jacobi, Zoe Wanamaker and Julia Ormond), my week is over for the season awards. Williams, in particular, is always the nominations for best actress, who is offered this year. It does not mimic Monroe, Monroe, reflects, all its weaknesses, its ingenuity, clad in his strength and his flirtation. He is always at least breathless breathtaking. If Williams is not already stars, had become one. - Brandon Judell

brandon.jpgMr. Judell is currently teaching "gay identity in literature" and "Arts in New York City" at the City College of New York and is a co-ordinator Simon H. Rifkind Center. He wrote the film, The Village Voice, indieWire.com, New York Daily News, Soho style, and the lawyer, and is anthologized in Interviews Cynthia Fuchs Spike Lee (University Press of Mississippi) and John Preston is a member of the family (Dutton ).

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