A Mighty Heart

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Okay, I am proud to announce that I have decided to see A Mighty Heart before saying anything more about the Angelina Jolie, Mariane Pearl bff fest.

I have a hunch, though, that even as I might be the only person who thinks the blackfacing/whitewashing issue is still relevant in the face (ooh pun!) of a global political drama, I do think it’s more complex than it may at first seem. It’s about a type of movie, made for a certain kind of person, and right now there’s a certain kind of Hollywood actor responsible for cultivating this kind of audience. These are the people who bring us Read the rest of this entry »

Angelina Jolie in A Mighty Heart; also Daniel Pearl and Mariane Pearl.I started this post thinking it would be about some of the brouhaha (or is this more of a hullabaloo?) about Angelina Jolie portraying Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart. Beauty as Power has a nice post on the choice as a race issue. The post also includes some background and interview material from Defamer, People, and msNBC, whose various responses to Jolie playing a women of African descent range from accusations of her doing “blackface,” (msNBC) to the suggestion that she has only donned “bronzer and a wig” (Defamer) and also Cinematical). Read the rest of this entry »