Jennifer Morris, digital video & media person in West Yorkshire, UK.
Remember when Michael Pitt’s character wanted to date Michelle Williams’ character so bad that he sold his blood to take her out and buy her a Hungarian Red ring only to collapse in the restaurant on Valentine’s Day and be rushed to hospital?
Probably not unless you recall that ep of the Creek but it does sound like the kind of romcom they would make.
The Creek #isthebest
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No word yet on who she’ll be playing, but we can rule out the part of Marylou, who’ll be played by “The Twilight Saga” star Kristen Stewart.
So… yay or nay on this casting? How about the idea of Kerouac’s classic being adapted?
K-Stew and K-Dunst in the same movie? I haven’t felt this way since K-Dunst and Michelle Williams were in the same movie and that was a pretty great movie. Sheesh, Stewart will actually be great as Marylou. I wish we could all forget about everything else and think more about Into The Wild and Adventureland and In The Land Of Women (and Dick and The Virgin Suicides and Crazy/Beautiful now that you mention it).
On the other hand, who gives a fuck about who plays the chicks? Salles directing and Sam Riley as Kerouac’s autobiographical Sal Paradise = win.
- A new feature on notes about nothing where I gush about girlcrushes / directorcrushes*. This doesn’t go in order, but I will probably do updates as and when I feel especially impressed.
#1 Michelle Williams
For those recently catching on to MW, they fall in love right away. Cute, talented, slightly harrowed with a beautiful daughter and successful indie flicks under her belt, she’s a hipster movie-goers dream, even residing and often spotted in Brooklyn.
For me, it goes back to Dawson’s Creek, and the late 90s/early 00s teen boom with her role as Jen Lindley in the popular WB series. Jen was my favourite, so dark yet forcibly happy in the beautiful fictional town of Capeside. She was the bad girl who made good, taking on a cute gay sidekick before kicking it in the finale and making us all want to kill ourselves.
Creek aside, she made other notable performances but for me her best work came in two girl-best-friend movies: the absolutely hilarious and wholly underrated Dick with Kirsten Dunst and the small Brit drama Me Without You with Anna Friel.
Brokeback Mountain really disappointed me so much so that I daren’t watch it again in case it’s really as bad as I thought. I love the whole cast; the premise and story is great but I have the unpopular opinion that Lee fucked it up. The characters and performances were fantastic but for the most part it bored me.
[Of course, this is where we find the Ledger/Williams connection, which many will stick with for a long time, regardless of Michelle’s other accomplishments and low-key profile.]
So, out of teen TV and into the fire. Katie Holmes may have become the paparazzi whirlwind on the arm of Tom Cruise, but both Creek girls grew up - if way differently.
I started to write this because I just saw Synecdoche, New York and had the realization that Michelle Williams holds up not only to great Hollywood actors of her generation, but against the Hoffmans and Keeners, JJLs and Samantha Mortons.
She has made a couple of questionable but largely great choices in her roles and has shone in recent ones. Nobody ever seems to think of her in her own right, but it seems she either doesn’t care or is still earning it with each great performance.
I fully look forward to all future endeavors from Michelle Williams, especially Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, during which I’m bound to pee myself more than once.
* [directorcrushes differ from girlcrushes in that if I ever get to direct short/feature films, these faces are my absolute dream.]
