Comments on: Cheeseburger Film Review: The Women Behind The Women http://tiffabee.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/cheeseburger-film-review-the-women-behind-the-women/ Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:55:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: sandrar http://tiffabee.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/cheeseburger-film-review-the-women-behind-the-women/#comment-2416 sandrar Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:52:06 +0000 http://tiffabee.wordpress.com/?p=642#comment-2416 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post... nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R. Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

]]> By: Idanis http://tiffabee.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/cheeseburger-film-review-the-women-behind-the-women/#comment-1417 Idanis Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:01:47 +0000 http://tiffabee.wordpress.com/?p=642#comment-1417 Being 18, I'm just tired of seeing girls my age, and all ages, strive to be what is fed to them on TV. I just wish that girls my age can learn how to love themselves at whatever height or weight. I'm a skinny shorty with a big booty...and that is perfectly fine....Hell 5'11 is also overrated...Who said that shorties aren't beautiful too....hehehehe :) I love this website. :) Here's a rose @>------- Beauty is confidence: not height, weight or skin color. :) Being 18, I’m just tired of seeing girls my age, and all ages, strive to be what is fed to them on TV. I just wish that girls my age can learn how to love themselves at whatever height or weight. I’m a skinny shorty with a big booty…and that is perfectly fine….Hell 5′11 is also overrated…Who said that shorties aren’t beautiful too….hehehehe :)
I love this website. :)
Here’s a rose @>——-

Beauty is confidence: not height, weight or skin color. :)

]]> By: Colleen http://tiffabee.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/cheeseburger-film-review-the-women-behind-the-women/#comment-1414 Colleen Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:39:38 +0000 http://tiffabee.wordpress.com/?p=642#comment-1414 Why oh why did they feel the need to remake this movie? And it's not really a remake since they now all have jobs, and one is a lesbian, and babies are born and teenaged girls are given the time of day they simply share a title, character names and vaguely similar plot line. “We tell women to feel good about themselves and then we print 15 pieces on crazy diets. We run ads for wrinkle cream and the models are 20 years old!” These are lines coming out of Sylvia Fowler! I'm sorry, take your PSA elsewhere, because the Sylvia Fowler I know and love would find a back handed way of telling the 20 year olds they needed the wrinkle cream. And let's not get into the fact that one of the more famous lines from the 1939 version is: "I hate to tell you, dear, but your skin makes the Rocky Mountains look like chiffon velvet! " Why oh why did they feel the need to remake this movie? And it’s not really a remake since they now all have jobs, and one is a lesbian, and babies are born and teenaged girls are given the time of day they simply share a title, character names and vaguely similar plot line.

“We tell women to feel good about themselves and then we print 15 pieces on crazy diets. We run ads for wrinkle cream and the models are 20 years old!”

These are lines coming out of Sylvia Fowler! I’m sorry, take your PSA elsewhere, because the Sylvia Fowler I know and love would find a back handed way of telling the 20 year olds they needed the wrinkle cream.

And let’s not get into the fact that one of the more famous lines from the 1939 version is:

“I hate to tell you, dear, but your skin makes the Rocky Mountains look like chiffon velvet! “

]]> By: Kay http://tiffabee.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/cheeseburger-film-review-the-women-behind-the-women/#comment-1412 Kay Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:42:15 +0000 http://tiffabee.wordpress.com/?p=642#comment-1412 This film is also a loose remake of the Clair Booth Luce classic, The Women, which was recently wonderfully revived on Broadway, and is also a prior film from 1939 starring Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, and a whole slew of other women (http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=509). As "Porgy & Bess" provides rare quality roles for blacks, "The Women" in part was designed to give women access to leading roles and greater stage/on-screen time, i.e. a small attempt at getting past the classic Smurphette dramatic structure, where one or, at most, two women (ingenue + middle-aged bitch/comic relief) appear alongside a cast full of a couple dozen men. Traditionally, the entire cast of "The Women" is female (although the 1939 film, unfortunately, in my opinion, departed from this in the final minutes of the film). Judging from the teasers, this remake has been entirely rewritten with contemporary dialog. The original was not so much about beauty issues in isolation, but more about catty competition and obsessions with superficialities common to upper class women of privilege. (Working women are also featured in the play/movie, but do not share the main characters' flaws or foibles.) Luce (http://www.historycentral.com/Bio/people/Luce.html), a U.S. congressman and ambassador, in addition to author, is rumored to have remarked that every one of the main characters in The Women should be "taken out and horsewhipped." The original is absolutely hilarious (check YouTube for clips) and deserves its classification as a classic film. This remake probably will not fare as well (reviews are pretty negative), but might still be fun. It might be more worthwhile, though, to rent the original and spend some time learning more about Luce herself than making time to see this revision. This film is also a loose remake of the Clair Booth Luce classic, The Women, which was recently wonderfully revived on Broadway, and is also a prior film from 1939 starring Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, and a whole slew of other women (http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=509).

As “Porgy & Bess” provides rare quality roles for blacks, “The Women” in part was designed to give women access to leading roles and greater stage/on-screen time, i.e. a small attempt at getting past the classic Smurphette dramatic structure, where one or, at most, two women (ingenue + middle-aged bitch/comic relief) appear alongside a cast full of a couple dozen men. Traditionally, the entire cast of “The Women” is female (although the 1939 film, unfortunately, in my opinion, departed from this in the final minutes of the film).

Judging from the teasers, this remake has been entirely rewritten with contemporary dialog. The original was not so much about beauty issues in isolation, but more about catty competition and obsessions with superficialities common to upper class women of privilege. (Working women are also featured in the play/movie, but do not share the main characters’ flaws or foibles.) Luce (http://www.historycentral.com/Bio/people/Luce.html), a U.S. congressman and ambassador, in addition to author, is rumored to have remarked that every one of the main characters in The Women should be “taken out and horsewhipped.”

The original is absolutely hilarious (check YouTube for clips) and deserves its classification as a classic film. This remake probably will not fare as well (reviews are pretty negative), but might still be fun. It might be more worthwhile, though, to rent the original and spend some time learning more about Luce herself than making time to see this revision.

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