More movies: Josie and the Pussycats
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osprey_archerAnother movie I recently watched: Josie and the Pussycats. Another girl movie about girls being awesome! This seems to be a theme. Possibly I should make a series of post about such movies. Charlie's Angels! Winter's Bone! Sophie Scholl: The Final Days! It would be epic.
First, this movie is apparently based on a cartoon from the 1970s. Has anyone seen it? Is it worth watching? Because I really liked the movie and I want more.
Even if the plot is so ridiculous that I didn't so much suspend disbelief as conk it on the head and chuck it out the window, only to have it creep back in at inopportune moments.
Second, Rachael Leigh Cook (who plays Josie) is so cute. Her EYES. SHE HAS SUCH GIANT ADORABLE EYES. And her haircut in this movie is so adorable, too! She looks just like I imagine Mae from Sarah Rees Brennan's The Demon's Lexicon books would look - (never mind Mae's hair is dyed pink, not red) - so cute but also so tough-looking.
Third, I looooooooooooooove the central theme of this story. I love, love, love stories about deeply close friendships, which are interrupted by EPIC BETRAYAL and then mended, and it is so hard to find stories like this with girl characters that don't partake in gross "girls are such backstabby bitches!" rhetoric. (Because boys...never betray each other ever? Give me a break. Have you seen The Social Network? Have you read any history ever? E tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!)
Josie sidesteps the "evil backstabby girls" narrative by grounding their story in the history of bands - many of them all-male - that undergo messy break-ups; so the question is never, "Can Josie and her buddies overcome the inherent evilness of being female?", but always "Is their friendship strong enough to stave off the betrayals that often destroy successful bands?"
First, this movie is apparently based on a cartoon from the 1970s. Has anyone seen it? Is it worth watching? Because I really liked the movie and I want more.
Even if the plot is so ridiculous that I didn't so much suspend disbelief as conk it on the head and chuck it out the window, only to have it creep back in at inopportune moments.
Second, Rachael Leigh Cook (who plays Josie) is so cute. Her EYES. SHE HAS SUCH GIANT ADORABLE EYES. And her haircut in this movie is so adorable, too! She looks just like I imagine Mae from Sarah Rees Brennan's The Demon's Lexicon books would look - (never mind Mae's hair is dyed pink, not red) - so cute but also so tough-looking.
Third, I looooooooooooooove the central theme of this story. I love, love, love stories about deeply close friendships, which are interrupted by EPIC BETRAYAL and then mended, and it is so hard to find stories like this with girl characters that don't partake in gross "girls are such backstabby bitches!" rhetoric. (Because boys...never betray each other ever? Give me a break. Have you seen The Social Network? Have you read any history ever? E tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!)
Josie sidesteps the "evil backstabby girls" narrative by grounding their story in the history of bands - many of them all-male - that undergo messy break-ups; so the question is never, "Can Josie and her buddies overcome the inherent evilness of being female?", but always "Is their friendship strong enough to stave off the betrayals that often destroy successful bands?"
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Date: 2012-03-19 12:51 pm (UTC)**It featured the bad-guy brother and sister Alex and Alexandra, as I recall--sort of a precursor of Team Rocket in Pokemon.
one negative thing I remember...
Date: 2012-03-19 12:54 pm (UTC)Re: one negative thing I remember...
Date: 2012-03-19 12:59 pm (UTC)I'll get the first disk from Netflix and see how it goes.
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Date: 2012-03-24 05:28 pm (UTC)As for the cartoon, I think I watched one or two eps but not enough to tell you conclusively. That being said, if you can get your hand on old Archie comics...Josie and the Pussycats were just so awesome.
And good point about the hazards of being female in that movie. Though I wonder if it's because it's based off the comic rather than original content? IDK, but good observation!
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Date: 2012-03-25 08:51 pm (UTC)