“As it happens, there are particular aspects of my life for which I would like to maintain sole rights and privileges!” “For instance, what?” “For instance, you!”
Every second of this movie feels so fresh and contemporary that I couldn’t believe it. Hearing Bette Davis cry out that some months ago she had turned forty! reminds you that the more things change the more they stay the same. This is the kind of movie that makes me feel really close to the rest of humanity. 75 years ago people spent nights partying with their friends that they get annoyed by and thinking of quippy things to say and wondering if that girl is trying to steal your boyfriend or if you’re jealous and fluffing your hair when you’re nervous. I understand why this is so well-loved, I love it too.
I leaned forward the first time Eve met Margo and didn’t disengage for the rest of the movie. I loved that Eve is a fantastic storyteller. I think it does a marvelous job at introducing doubt to the viewer without making the characters in the movie suspicious; we know Eve wins an acting award and that Margo doesn’t clap for her, so we know Eve can act and that things soured between them, so we see duplicity in Eve that no one else can. I think it’s amazing that we can buy that she’s being honest because of how talented Anne Baxter is, but that we can doubt her honesty because of how talented Eve Harrington is. Genius.
Bette Davis is everything. She perfectly plays the kind of dramatic woman who can’t help but speak with her face even though she knows it betrays her insecurities. The way she snuffed every cigarette after smoking maaaaybe 7% of it rocked. Her single earring rocked. Her eyes and eyebrows rocked. I expect that it would be hard to command the screen in a role where you were insecure about losing your stardom and job to someone else, but Bette Davis threads that needle perfectly.
Celeste Holm, Ritter, and Marilyn Monroe (!) turnt it too. I’d you haven’t seen this movie, you really should fix that asap. I promise it isn’t old and inaccessible!!
“As it happens, there are particular aspects of my life for which I would like to maintain sole rights and privileges!” “For instance, what?” “For instance, you!”
Every second of this movie feels so fresh and contemporary that I couldn’t believe it. Hearing Bette Davis cry out that some months ago she had turned forty! reminds you that the more things change the more they stay the same. This is the kind of movie that makes me feel really close to the rest of humanity. 75 years ago people spent nights partying with their friends that they get annoyed by and thinking of quippy things to say and wondering if that girl is trying to steal your boyfriend or if you’re jealous and fluffing your hair when you’re nervous. I understand why this is so well-loved, I love it too.
I leaned forward the first time Eve met Margo and didn’t disengage for the rest of the movie. I loved that Eve is a fantastic storyteller. I think it does a marvelous job at introducing doubt to the viewer without making the characters in the movie suspicious; we know Eve wins an acting award and that Margo doesn’t clap for her, so we know Eve can act and that things soured between them, so we see duplicity in Eve that no one else can. I think it’s amazing that we can buy that she’s being honest because of how talented Anne Baxter is, but that we can doubt her honesty because of how talented Eve Harrington is. Genius.
Bette Davis is everything. She perfectly plays the kind of dramatic woman who can’t help but speak with her face even though she knows it betrays her insecurities. The way she snuffed every cigarette after smoking maaaaybe 7% of it rocked. Her single earring rocked. Her eyes and eyebrows rocked. I expect that it would be hard to command the screen in a role where you were insecure about losing your stardom and job to someone else, but Bette Davis threads that needle perfectly.
Celeste Holm, Ritter, and Marilyn Monroe (!) turnt it too. I’d you haven’t seen this movie, you really should fix that asap. I promise it isn’t old and inaccessible!!
