Movies
Okay so I went to the movies yesterday and I saw Julie & Julia, the movie that is based upon not just one but TWO true stories. The lives of the women that the movie is based on are Julie Powell and Julia Child, with much information being taken from Julia Child's autobiography, "My Life in France" that was written in 2006 about two years after she had died by her husband's great-nephew Alex Prud'homme and a blog by Julie Powell titled "The Julie/Julia Project" which later became reworked into a book by called "Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Little, Brown, 2005)." The paperback was then retitled into "Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (Back Bay Books, 2006)".
The movie, for those who have yet to see it, is about Julia Child's early years in Paris, France where she learned how to cook, and where she first began her work on her famous cookbook "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". The other half of the movie deals with Julie Powell over 40 years later who decides to set a goal for herself by starting a blog on her journey to cook her way through Julia Child's famous cookbook in just a year and all of the trails that she goes through while on said journey.
I thought that the movie was pretty good. Meryl Streep portrayed Julia Child pretty realistically with her fluting voice and the rounded shoulders. I remember when I was little that I would turn on the TV and would be surfing through the channels and then there would be Julia Child, just cooking away and looking just like a grandmother as she explained how to prepare the dish that she was showing to her audience that day. After she was done, she would always end with "This is Julia Child, Bon Appetit!". After seeing the movie, it made me feel curious about the blog/book written by Julie Powell, someday soon I'm going to have to go to Borders or Barnes & noble and see if I can't find Julie's book and read it for myself.
The movie, for those who have yet to see it, is about Julia Child's early years in Paris, France where she learned how to cook, and where she first began her work on her famous cookbook "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". The other half of the movie deals with Julie Powell over 40 years later who decides to set a goal for herself by starting a blog on her journey to cook her way through Julia Child's famous cookbook in just a year and all of the trails that she goes through while on said journey.
I thought that the movie was pretty good. Meryl Streep portrayed Julia Child pretty realistically with her fluting voice and the rounded shoulders. I remember when I was little that I would turn on the TV and would be surfing through the channels and then there would be Julia Child, just cooking away and looking just like a grandmother as she explained how to prepare the dish that she was showing to her audience that day. After she was done, she would always end with "This is Julia Child, Bon Appetit!". After seeing the movie, it made me feel curious about the blog/book written by Julie Powell, someday soon I'm going to have to go to Borders or Barnes & noble and see if I can't find Julie's book and read it for myself.