This is my new personal theme:

'It's better to blog and do well than to not blog and fail.'

aka I haven't blogged in ages because I've been going home and sleeping too much. Oh how I do love sleep. But I've just had a giant meal so I'm awake right now!


I have finally got around to watching one of the DVD's my mum gave me for christmas - Factory Girl.

I have to admit that it was really dissapointing at first. I started watching it with my mum, but 10 minuits into the film she got up and left declaring that 'all these people are hideous!' - and I got where she was coming from. In the 60's, all of Andy Warhols little gang appeared really very self absorbed, attention seeking and always wanting to take it one step too far in order to shock people.. I think my mother left the room at the part when some nude chick was showing everyone her book of 'art' - some more naked people.. but that's only what I learned from the film. I don't know what it was really like back then because, of course, I wasn't alive! However, since I was little I've always wanted to go back in time and pretend I was from another generation. Theres something exciting about learning how other people lived and how places and generations existed. I can't reach them due to the annoying constraint of time. So I'll just watch films instead =]

Oh, and I kind of want to be Edie:

She just has one of those faces. Kind of facinating...

It wasn't until the end of the film when my mum had decided to re-appear.
It wasn't until now when I realised how the hideous, posing, arty folk were so unnatractve for a reason. They made Edie appear more angelic and innocent, being pulled towards the dark side of drug use and partying. Her young death was made even more tragic and sad this way. What really angered me was how Andy showed no remorse or guilt and even claimed he didnt know her that well...

...But they didn't even get that right as they cast thee oh-so-boreing Sienna Millar whose face has as much character as a boiled egg. Sorry Sienna..


She was way too grown-up for the role. Too sophisticated in my opinion. She's probably a great actress with the right part, but Edie was totally wrong for her.


This actually reminds me of something my friend Charlotte was talking about.
Charlotte is pretty facinated by Sylvia Plath. She believes shes a genious who killed herself because she couldn't deal with all the emotion she felt - which she felt to a much greater extent than every other human being. So she killed herself. Big role to take on eh? So who is playing her in the film of her life?... none other than oh-so-wholesome-Gwenith Paltrow. Charlotte thinks this is wrong. Charlotte is angry and won't shut up about it so I just nod and whine about Sienna Millars ambient face. So now I've borrowed The Bell Jar to read and I'll watch the film so I can judge for myself.

So the real point of this blog was actually just for me to figure out if casting is as super important as I make it out to be, or if this is just me being horribly picky and placing beauty way too high up on the 'things that are important' list inside my brain.

But to be perfectly honest, if your going to be making a movie about someone super iconic, your never going to be satisfied with who plays them... unless your The Downey playing Charlie Chaplin of course.