In Videos: 'Julie and Julia' Sneak Peek
Sure, it's blink and you'll miss it, but if you're keen on seeing some of the first bits of Julie & Julia, take a gander here (after the jump). At the end of Sunday night's Oscars, the show ran quick previews of 2009 movies starring 2008 nominees. Someone was kind enough to snip the eight-second reel of this Meryl Streep–Amy Adams project based on the Julie Powell book. [via The Food Section]
'Julia and Julia' Sneak Peek
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17 Comments:
I'm so nerdily excited about this movie. Or maybe it's not nerdy to say that on Serious Eats, maybe this is where I can say how excited about it I am, and be (hushed whisper) accepted.
cakespy at 1:58PM on 02/24/09
I'm with you, cakespy. I'm in the middle of the book right now and am loving it!
ultraviolet79 at 2:15PM on 02/24/09
I also love the book, but and I am incensed they cast Hollywood-thin Amy Adams as Julie who, in the book (and presumably real life) is a normal sized, gimlet-drinking, steak-potatoes-and-cream sauce eating, cooking-well-so-I-can't-get-my-zippers up kind of woman. I mean, what an opportunity squandered to cast a non-skinny woman in a movie. Grrrrrrr.
Joy Manning at 2:43PM on 02/24/09
i think this book made me stupid. it was whiny and insipid. i couldn't even finish it...i might have lost faith in womankind.
i am SO with julia on hating it!
dmarina at 3:08PM on 02/24/09
I am excited, but would have been more excited if they would have made My Life in France, written by her husband's great-nephew, a movie. It would have been partically filmed in France and with great food and location and maybe, just maybe they could have filmed from her apartement in Marseilles! I would have really been excited about that.
peuporcin at 3:10PM on 02/24/09
**cue Julia rolling over in her grave**
My Life in France would have been great!
saltcrystal at 3:21PM on 02/24/09
I thought that I was the only one who couldn't finish this book.
cookingathome at 3:23PM on 02/24/09
Meryl Streep is NOT Julia Child! No one can be Julia!!!
Fatfudge at 3:23PM on 02/24/09
"Meryl Streep is NOT Julia Child! No one can be Julia!!!"
Oh, please. If we took this tack with all biopics, we wouldn't have any biopics. Besides, it's Meryl Streep. She's amazing.
Adam Kuban at 3:28PM on 02/24/09
As someone who followed the blog in real time, and read the book, some of this criticism is deserved. The blog was entrancing, the book, not so much and I have little hope for the movie.
And everyone in the restaurant biz knows my mother is the only person in America who is consistently mistaken for Julia Child. Even when in foreign countries. Except my Mom isn't dead.
miss_msry at 3:44PM on 02/24/09
Gee, I couldn't finish the book either but I can't wait to see the movie!
bessfour at 5:24PM on 02/24/09
The book was painful to read. It lacked flow and rhythm plus it had an overall whiny tone about it. Not interested in seeing the movie, even though I'm a foodie.
Gastro888 at 6:09PM on 02/24/09
the blog really was wonderful, totally addicting, and don't forget, she garnered a tremendous readership and tons of attention from the press all over the world without ever posting a single photograph. just the fact that she generated that much interest and adulation without having to resort to pictorial food porn is extremely impressive.
i didn't like the book nearly as much, but i remain a loyal fan and am very much looking forward to the movie... although i think julie herself should have been cast in the lead. isn't she a trained actress?
cybercita at 10:04PM on 02/24/09
Her blog was one of the first ones out there so it's natural that she'd have a large audience compared to someone who started blogging now. Also, a digital camera wasn't as affordable back then as it is now hence the widespread presence of blogs with pictures.
Her book seems less about food more focused on her angst in general. I'm still wondering why she got a book deal and much less a movie deal.
Gastro888 at 10:40PM on 02/25/09
I didn't know about Julie's blog but I found her book and I really enjoyed reading it (much of it contains excerpts from her blog anyway.) And I quite liked the interstices of Julia and her life, and thought as a whole it was cleverly done. Many people didn't like Julie's political and other (non-food related) views coming through in the book, but I argue that it's a memoir and this is who she is; you don't have to like her on every level to appreciate the process she went through and the humor in her efforts.
Was it great literature? No, but I do think Powell is talented and I applaud her success from something that started out first as a project and later as a blog from home. And I wish I'd thought of it, dammit! The film could be even better than the book, in my opinion, if they do it right. Meryl is a good start.
Jeana at 11:46AM on 02/27/09
@ Joy Manning... In every picture I've seen of Julie (in magazine articles etc), she has been rather thin. I think Amy Adams is a good choice...
pbisNOTmyname at 10:53AM on 03/03/09
I'm excited. Loved the idea behind the blog / book, loved the book and can't wait for the movie.
samedogmsn at 10:18PM on 03/03/09