Showing posts with label Heavenly Creatures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heavenly Creatures. Show all posts

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Lisa the Drama Queen, or How I'm Seeing Double




The Simpsons' "Lisa the Drama Queen" took a page (or two) from Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (minus the whole matricide, of course...)

And it left me wondering: so is Lisa Kate, then? Or would it be the other way around?

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Heavenly Creatures, or How this is Ms Winslet's career in a nutshell

Is Heavenly Creatures (Ms Academy Award WINNER Kate Winslet's film debut) a blueprint for her film career?

Let's take a look:
A kid and a princess.
A Kid in King Arthur's Court

Girl traveling in the rain.
Sense and Sensibility

Deranged girl syndrome.
Hamlet

Tragedy upon a boat.
Titanic

Forbidden desire.
Quills

Lovely bicycle rides.
Iris

'Capital Punishment' quandaries.
The life of David Gale

Diaries. Memories. Love stories. 
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Bedridden due to illness.
Finding Neverland

She sings!
Romance & Cigarettes

Sojourns in old-school bathing suits
Little Children

Having sex with a slightly less-hot person than yourself 
The Holiday

Pretty 1950s frocks
Revolutionary Road

Sexy bathtub scenes 
The Reader