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By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor
REBEL IN THE RYE: A biopic about the celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, famous for his novel, "The Catcher in the Rye". (died 2010 age 91) the movie is written and directed by Danny Strong who is the co-creator of the TV Show Empire (w/ Lee Daniels) and for other Gilmore Girl fans like myself, he plays Paris’s boyfriend Doyle.
Rebel in the Rye stars Nicholas Hoult, who was a child actor in one of my all time favorite movies About a Boy with Hugh Grant. He’s also Beast in a number of the X-men movies, a cute zombie in Warm Bodies (see below) and I’m really looking forward to him playing Nikola Tesla in the upcoming Benedict Cumberbatch movie about Thomas Edison called The Current War.
The biopic starts with Salinger as a cocky youth, college age, having already been kicked out of more than one school. His mother is in his corner, no matter what he decides to do, his father (Victor Garber) is worriedly disappointed in his son's decision not to join the family's, meat import/export business. Salinger at this point is only interested in winning the attention of Oona O'Neill (Zoey Deutch) the daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, a mere coincidence, as he's not interested in her for her father's literary connections.
It all has a charming Gatsby-esque quality until Salinger is shipped off to the front lines of World War II, most men are not cut out for the horrors of war, but Salinger's poetic soul is devastated by the experience, returning a different man then the boy who left.
Speaking of which, like most people in America, I was forced to read "A Catcher in the Rye" in high school, as I recall, it didn’t do it for me, I didn’t relate. I should revisit it now as an adult and see if I get more out of it. I read an article from 2010, which polled high school kids on their feelings about the book. Not sure of ethnicity or socio-economic background of the kids polled - but more than not, were still able to identify with Holden Caulfield’s "deep distrust of the adult world", his "'to hell with the world'" attitude and "lack of connection to his parents." Which, guess never goes out of teenage style.
T & T's LAMB (movie bloggers association) Score: 3 outta 5
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REBEL IN THE RYE
By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor
REBEL IN THE RYE: A biopic about the celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, famous for his novel, "The Catcher in the Rye". (died 2010 age 91) the movie is written and directed by Danny Strong who is the co-creator of the TV Show Empire (w/ Lee Daniels) and for other Gilmore Girl fans like myself, he plays Paris’s boyfriend Doyle.
Rebel in the Rye stars Nicholas Hoult, who was a child actor in one of my all time favorite movies About a Boy with Hugh Grant. He’s also Beast in a number of the X-men movies, a cute zombie in Warm Bodies (see below) and I’m really looking forward to him playing Nikola Tesla in the upcoming Benedict Cumberbatch movie about Thomas Edison called The Current War.
The biopic starts with Salinger as a cocky youth, college age, having already been kicked out of more than one school. His mother is in his corner, no matter what he decides to do, his father (Victor Garber) is worriedly disappointed in his son's decision not to join the family's, meat import/export business. Salinger at this point is only interested in winning the attention of Oona O'Neill (Zoey Deutch) the daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, a mere coincidence, as he's not interested in her for her father's literary connections.
It all has a charming Gatsby-esque quality until Salinger is shipped off to the front lines of World War II, most men are not cut out for the horrors of war, but Salinger's poetic soul is devastated by the experience, returning a different man then the boy who left.
Speaking of which, like most people in America, I was forced to read "A Catcher in the Rye" in high school, as I recall, it didn’t do it for me, I didn’t relate. I should revisit it now as an adult and see if I get more out of it. I read an article from 2010, which polled high school kids on their feelings about the book. Not sure of ethnicity or socio-economic background of the kids polled - but more than not, were still able to identify with Holden Caulfield’s "deep distrust of the adult world", his "'to hell with the world'" attitude and "lack of connection to his parents." Which, guess never goes out of teenage style.
T & T's LAMB (movie bloggers association) Score: 3 outta 5
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T&T Warm Bodies Review: Actually, I found out sweetbreads are not sauteed brains; but rather the thymus gland or pancreas of a calve. It's still a disgusting proposition in terms of delicacies, unless of course, you happen to be a zombi, in which case, everything is good from the toes on up. Now an interesting new zombie fact is revealed in Jonathan Levine's (The Wackness, 50/50) creature feature Warm Bodies - and that is, by eating your victim's brain, you get to experience their memories and for a moment, feel almost alive again! READ MOREShare :)
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