Time magazine covered an article on the brilliant and very talented Natalie Portman. After her wonderful performance of the 'black swan'. Time magazine really gave her a name for all the great works she has done. She has done all types of movies, she's so talented, she is capable of performing a role to the best of her ability. Richard Corliss the writer of the article in Time Magazine wrote about her successful career over the seventeen years she's been acting. It also gave some background information on how she was a "dutiful child." While filming with top directors in Hollywood she was also acing all her classes in high school. After high school she attended the very prestigious university, Harvard. Some college students would either intern or flip burger patties at a local burger joint to pay off their college career, instead she played the part of Padmé Amidala in all four Star Wars movie. This was enough to pay for her college career.
On the article cover about her by la weekly that was written by J. Hoberman. He covered her wonderful performance in the 'Black Swan'. The rigorous dance bootcamp and diet she had to go through while making the movie. They say she began to look very skinny, and the Darren Aronofsky told her she needed to start eating again. One article was mostly based on her long successful career and her education and the other one was mostly based on performance in her most recent movie "Black Swan'.
Both journalists gave a positive note about her and the language was easily flowing throughout the articles. It was highly academic and it gave her more prestige in the entertainment world. She's known to be a talented actress, what she does she does well.
Isn’t it interesting how two people can look at a situation and walk away with two very differing opinions? You mentioned in your blog that “One article was mostly based on her long successful career and her education and the other one was mostly based on performance in her most recent movie "Black Swan'.” This is interesting to see how one other walks away with an analysis of the performance while the other analyzes the performer.
ReplyDeleteThis is a testimony to the diversity of the human mind. Each of us is wired differently and has a tendency towards a different style of thinking. Seeing the two styles compared like this makes me stop to analyze how I look at situations. I have to ask myself, do I focus more on the person or the story surrounding the person? Personally, I think my natural tendency is to focus more on the individual.
What I find most fascinating though is to compare the ideas of men and women. It would be fun to compare an analysis of the film by a man and also by a woman. A man might focus more on the pacing and the action where a woman might notice the attention to detail in the décor.
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ReplyDeleteFirst off, I loved the movie. To me it was pretty amazing, somewhat lunatic at times, but great! Natalie Portman did do an amazing job in this movie and I also liked her in Anywhere But Here and the movie about her having a baby at Wal-Mart, other than these movies I haven’t seen any of her other work. No, not even Star Wars. I find myself respecting her more finding out that she was an actress and college student at the same time. I can barely handle going to school and not having internet at home while having an online class. I guess we can all handle different amounts of things on our plates. Then again, I do have a sense of jealousy towards her because she did have the opportunity of having these great opportunities.
I also respect the fact that she had to through this intense diet in order just to play a role how its supposed to played. Changing your body for a role shouldn’t be the reason why you get it or not, but she seems very dedicated in her work. According to these two authors of these articles, Richard Corliss sand J. Hoberman, they make her seem like woman of the year! She is talented when it all comes down to it.