Just saw "Bride and Prejudice" last night. What a HOOT! It's my the
woman who wrote and produced "Bend it Like Beckham," which I also
loved.
You've got to have some appreciation of Bollywood to adore and
understand Bride and Prejudice. I thought it was one of the best films
I've seen in months!
Teresa
That girl who's the main star in it has eyes that totally scare me and a
bird nose. Damn, she is just soooooo creepy lookingjmo, however. I don't
think I'd be able to sit through the whole film because of it, quite
honestly. I'll bet there are some cute guys in it, though.
Also, I saw an interview with her where she said it's against her Hindu
values to do any nudity or sex scenes in films, but "if the right role came
along" she might change her mind about the sex scenes, but probably not the
nudity. If she ever winds up putting money and fame above her faith just to
be adopted into American cinema, that will be sad that she felt the need to
totally sell out that way.
However, it is also rather sad that her culture feels the need to preach to
her that sex cannot be tastefully portrayed in motion pictures and doesn't
always have to look cheap and morally bankrupt. I just got the impression in
the interview that the girl is extremely whipped and cannot think for
herself, basically. I walked away from the interview feeling very sorry her.
When she said she'd definitely make out passionately in a film, but not take
her shirt off, I told myself "Good luck ever appearing in a Rated R movie in
America, Honey."
The fact that any woman could ever think that stuffing her tongue down some
actor's throat for five minutes on camera is *less pure* than removing one's
shirt (doesn't she regard her body as beautiful?) just floored me and I
laughed aloud for a good three minutes at how backwards and brainwashed she
sounded, truthfully.
TONS of films that don't even require a sex scene have people in the film
who appear shirtless for a few seconds here and there. Seeing someone's bare
chest in a film doesn't always have to be a licentious or sexual type of
thing. Husbands and wives *change their clothes* in front of each other in
films every day. It's indicative of a real life marriage and not of any kind
of wanton urges, honestly.
The girl just struck me as very naive and daft.
JN