A way to steal an idea
Julie and Julia, the last film directed by the late Nora Ephron (1941 – 2012) is a clever, if hunger inducing, parallel telling of two womens stories connected by a love of cooking and their passions writing about it. Full of colour and laughter as connections between the women are discovered.
Julie and Julia – with sweet moments like the gift of pearls to Julie so that she can be more like Julia and wear them as she cooks. There is the praise of butter, “you are the butter to my bread and the breath to my life” , “you can never have too much butter” and cooking wisdom “don’t crowd the mushrooms”, “always dry the meat or it won’t brown”.
Julia Child began to learn French cooking at the Cordon Bleu Cooking School in Paris so that she would have something to do during her time living there with her diplomat husband. It was later that she began to test recipes and collate them into the Julia Child et al cookbook, for servant-less American cooks.
Whilst Julie Powell (played by Amy Adams) began her journey with a challenge in mind to prove she could stick to and finish something. She gave herself a year to cook her way through the 524 recipes in the Julia Child et al cookbook and to blog about it along the way for accountability. Sharing her experiences and challenges, from learning skills like how to bone a duck or cook a live lobster, to actually eating an egg for the first time in her life.
So where does all this overlap with our world here at Fred’s Movie Posters you ask? Well Julie and Julia was a film about a blog…. and our Script will be a blog about films!!! [See what we did there.. a way to steal an idea!]
And whats more.. perhaps taking a lead from Julie and her cookbook challenge, our resource can be the massive library of classic movie posters that we have in our Poster Shop!
Now, I could watch my way through the whole catalogue, although there are genres that I am not too fond of, and there will be days when i don’t have the time to watch a movie all the way through, but i will give it a go and see where it leads me! And just like Julie did, we can share with you the shared joys of film along the way, right here on The Script: Our very own masterful movie blog!
Jouir de! – Fred & family