I wonder what the purpose of Ms. Birch gaining 20 pounds for this role was?
On the one hand, ScarJo was pretty damn nubile, and having two foxy babes acting like social outcasts, maybe that wouldn't have been believable. But they could have attained the same affect in other ways, and I thought her weight was a little distracting, especially walking around with Scarlett.
I'm not a woman much less Deanna Durbin, but the old-time glam-shot appeals to me.
Didn't find it distracting at all. Even next to Scarlett.
Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.
I wasn't distracted by it. Why would anyone be?
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Actually it's only in a scene when she's walking down the street with ScarJo. She's only 18 and she's kind of plump. I didn't really care until I read she'd gained weight for the role. I try not to have anything personal against people who are over-weight but this country is having an epidemic of obesity. For the director to decide he wants his star to be over-weight just doesn't make sense to me. The real person isn't over-weight. I'm not sure what message is being sent. But I love the movie, and it's really only that one moment where I thought, huh, she's significantly heavier than ScarJo. A kid that young should have a lot of energy and be burning it off with healthy activities. I know this doesn't gibe with her character.
I'm not a woman much less Deanna Durbin, but the old-time glam-shot appeals to me.
Maybe it wasn't the director's decision. It might've been Thora Birch's way of digging deeper into her character, using her own interpretation of what Enid should look like.
It was an odd decision, though. It's not like Enid in the graphic novel is heavyset, even compared to Rebecca:
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I found it cool that Enid wasn't stick thin. Like most of the women in todays movies
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Sure. I get that. I just want to see pretty 18 year old young ladies to look healthy and have at least in a physical sense, have a positive attitude. You have so much time to form yourself. Better to acquire good habits than have to cultivate then later
I'm not a woman much less Deanna Durbin, but the old-time glam-shot appeals to me.
Ugh! This is the new trend in America after Child Worship: everybody has an opinion on how much everybody else should weigh.
First of all, mind your own *beep* business and concern yourself with your own habits.
Second, see: DeNiro, Robert in Raging Bull, and numerous others in acting history, especially since The Method became common practice. Actors make choices, to play a character better. She made the choice. STFU aABOUT IT! Your only concern should be with how the role and film turned out.
Third, stop acting like you really give a *beep* about saving the world form obesity or, if you do actually give a *beep* KEEP IT TO YOURSELF.
Fourth, the next person that brings up how the "overweight are costing Americans tax dollars" or any other statement that gives even the tiniest approval of how the people in the US allow insurance companies to rule our lives, or that everybody else should just get on board, is going to get his balls squeezed until he *beep* cries. If it's a woman I'm stomping on her feet. ( of course, it's only on the internet where these azzholes feel the freedom to preach, so I guess it's a moot point).
Thank you.
The biggest issue people seem to have is how she "looks." That's all. Not if she's healthy or anything, but just how she looks.
Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.