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There is something very disconcerting about the first scenes of “Amelia.” The new Amelia Earhart biopic from director Mira Nair ’79 opens with a soft, hopeful score to accompany Earhart—played with wit and charisma by Hilary Swank??on her first trip across the Atlantic Ocean; the year is 1928, and Earhart’s airplane swoops gently over the vast seascapes and mountains of clouds. In “Amelia,” flying is about freedom and joy, an attitude completely forgotten in our modern...
...Amelia” also introduces us to a more troubled and indecisive character than the one we know from newsreels. Although Earhart is unequivocal about flying, she is often unsure of herself in her relationship with Putnam, and this is where Swank??s talent makes itself most known. Earhart is perfectly comfortable speaking to the press, but she is all awkward limbs and skittishness when meeting Putnam for the first time. After they are married, she submits to his urges to make more publicity appearances because she does not know what else to do; the financial backing...
...time Academy Award winner is undeniably mis-cast. When I do free association with Swank??s name “femme fatale with a bizarre English accent and a weird rat-like flower in her hair” is not one of the phrases that I generally come up with. She trills lines like “The family’s in Laguuuuuuna!” as if she is playing Katherine Hepburn in a drag show...
...Fiona Shaw (Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter series), who plays Ramona Linscott, Swank??s mother, is spellbindingly theatrical and genuinely funny. I think she is supposed to be disturbing and seriously deranged and neither of these things are humorous, but no matter. I take entertainment where I can find...
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