Julie & Julia

petalsandcoco · #1 08-25-2009, 01:23 PM

Hello Everyone,

Well I hate to say it but I just saw Julie & Julia for the 2nd time. It is a terrific movie , and a make you feel good film for 2009. For anyone who likes to cook , be it professionally or not, this movie brings out the best in all of us.
I give it a thumbs up and highly recommend it !
petalsandcoco
Has anyone else seen it ?

abefroman · #2 08-25-2009, 04:20 PM

Cool! I've been wanting to see that, I'll probably go this weekend, people I talked to said it was good.

Mezzaluna · #3 08-25-2009, 06:07 PM

I liked the Julia part better than the Julie part.

Wait, didn't I post on this already?

petalsandcoco · #4 08-26-2009, 09:15 AM

I agree 100% percent with you. I just cannot believe how good her part was played by Streep.
When she was doing an interview, she started talking just like Julia Child, I youtubed it yesterday and roared laughing.
Glad to hear your comment.

amazingrace · #5 08-26-2009, 09:26 AM

This one is definately on my "A" list to rent as soon as the video comes out. That is, if I can wait that long!

shipscook · #6 08-26-2009, 10:56 AM

I was out of town and saw it opening night--did the 12:01 a.m. thing. what fun!!
Can't wait for it to come here so I can see it again.
Nan

petalsandcoco · #7 08-26-2009, 01:19 PM

Too much fun. All the reports on the news here are saying that Julia Child's cookbooks are selling like hot cakes....
I am all up for seeing the movie for the 3rd time.

I wish they would do on Jacques Pepin...........

I will buy it as soon as it comes out. LOL

Koukouvagia · #8 08-26-2009, 07:39 PM

Saw it today. Loved it. Cried. Didn't like Julie so much, LOVED Julia!

I saw Meryl Streep once. I just happened to be at the movie theater watching some random movie when they were doing the whole red carpet thing, for the premiere of one of her movies... you know the one where she's a mother and she's dying of cancer, can't remember the name of it.

petalsandcoco · #9 08-27-2009, 08:38 AM

Yes, have you seen her in "Mama Mia" ? She did a spectacular job in the movie "Out of Africa".

What made me lose my tears in "Julie and Julia" was when they played that beautiful song at the end when they showed her in the kitchen. There was just just silence in the theater while that song played and then in walks Julia and her husband to get the mail and her joy when she sees her book.

I tell you , it is a feel good movie. I recommend it to everyone.

How could anyone not like Julia Child after this ? The woman is a 6 foot icon.

petalsandcoco · #10 08-27-2009, 08:57 AM

This is the site and song to that beautiful song..................

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Oh, everytime I hear it my heart swells, call me old fashioned, call me a romantic, I just can't help myself.
petalsandcoco

phoebe · #11 08-27-2009, 12:38 PM

David and I just saw it with a food industry friend and her husband. Fabulous! And although we all preferred the Julia sections, the Julie sections were fine. They seemed to balance the movie in an interesting way. And Julie wasn't supposed to be all that likeable during the height (or depth) of her project. Here's someone whose days were taken up (almost buried by) other people's terrible, terrible problems, sadness and frustrations. Of course she got self-centered when she got half a chance.

But Streep's Julia is just amazing. Not just the look (which is almost scary in its accuracy) but the soul of the woman. Wow.

And very luckily we were all going to a wonderful bistro-like restaurant afterwards because the film made me SO hungry.

Koukouvagia · #12 08-27-2009, 02:39 PM

My question is, did Julia Child really not like Julie's blog? Whatever happened with that part of the story?

petalsandcoco · #13 08-27-2009, 02:58 PM

According to the story, Julia Child did not give any reason as to why, but simply that she was not happy about the idea.
Maybe the 6 foot icon of butter was not happy that someone actually made every recipe of her world famous cook book in one year. Imagine, someone even attempting to mimic her cooking must have been a shock to her ego.

It put a dent in her souffle thats for sure.
She even had something to say about McDonalds french fries !!!!

phoebe · #14 08-27-2009, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Koukouvagia

My question is, did Julia Child really not like Julie's blog? Whatever happened with that part of the story?

I posted this link that answers a little of what you're asking on another string: Mastering the Art of French Cooking Reaches Young Readers Again - 7/20/2009 9:30:00 AM - Publishers Weekly

What the movie doesn't do is provide a sense of what most of the blogs were like. I read some as they came out and they certainly didn't seem as sweet and earnest as the Amy Adams character or the script presents them. They were (at least the ones I read) much more about Julie and her struggles with shopping and getting the food home and cooking after a long day at work than about the food. And the language was a lot more laden with 4-letter words than you see in the movie. Julia might have been a touch raunchy, but I don't think she was all that fond of swearing. So I can see why Julia wasn't really all that interested.

petalsandcoco · #15 08-28-2009, 08:48 AM

I agree with you.....Julia , would not of liked all the cussing, after all , it was another generation, woman cussed under the breath but it was not to be heard.

The blog is just riddled with f.... words. And if Julia at the ripe old age of 90 asked someone to look into it , said what the blog was , and if they mentionned all the swearing then maybe in Julia's eyes it took away from " the good name".