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Rachel McAdams and Helen Mirren don't necessarily mirror realityThis year’s list of Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists includes a large number of women. Of course, like many women, I’m thrilled to hear this news, but another part of me is thrilled for what this will do for pop culture. What’s the connection you ask? Well, I’ll tell you. Last weekend I went to see the new movie, State of Play, an entertaining thriller about D.C politics and journalism. In the movie, Russell Crowe plays a seasoned reporter who teaches a naive blogger (played by Rachel McAdams) the ropes of journalism.
While he schools Miss McAdams, he also lectures his boss, the uber sexy Helen Mirren, about journalistic integrity.
I enjoyed the movie and I liked Crowe’s character, but I kept thinking, why does Crowe have to be the teacher/wise reporter? Why can’t it be his boss, Helen Mirren, teaching him the ropes? Why when we see movies about news reporters, do we always see the seasoned male teaching the ambitious, but inexperienced, female reporter? Hopefully art will imitate life and we’ll see more movies in the future of hard hitting Pulitzer toting female reporters. Here are some of the winners from this year's Pulitzers:
Congratulations ladies. Keep up the great work. Submitted by on May 4, 2009 - 11:00am. |
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I didn't get the sense that
I didn't get the sense that Mirren's character needed to be schooled at anything. She came off as understanding everything, but also as a women who was under a lot of pressure from the corporate overlords who are ruining journalism.
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I haven't seen the new 'State of Play' but I really like the BBC original. In that the character of Della is not naive (or a blogger). The main character in that does seem do just what he wants to regardless of the boss but it never seems like he is better or more of a teacher than him. Yes the boss is 'him' in the original, something which I would have assumed would have helped the chances of Helen Mirren character being a strong one in the film, guess maybe not.
When I see this film I imagine I won't be bothered by the male/female roles of the film, more the fact that they've gone and stuck cliche where there need be no cliche and was none before.