This Owl has the joy of celebrating today the 25th, Christmas Day, together with his daughter’s 17th birthday. After singing Happy Birthday and cutting the cake, at sunset we will surely see a movie. What I observe is that before there were more releases on the movie theaters, especially for Christmas parties. Memory ‘The diaryof Bridget Jones’ (2001) that I saw in The Pacific, a film starring Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant, which became for many single men and women, in 2001, something like the theme ‘Who cares’ from Alaska and Dinarama. A hymn in all its lyrics.
SIGHT: Peruvian won the lottery
There was nothing to suggest that a female character as endearing as Bridget would reach the screens. She had everything not to like; however, she dazzled. Her character as a single woman who has failed in her relationship with men was inspired by the columns Helen Fielding wrote in The Independent newspaper in 1995, in which she ironized about those girls who were frantically looking for a partner and took all the advice to the letter. spread by magazines such as Vanidades or Buenhogar. England, snow, sweaters with Santa’s reindeer, the dinners that mothers and grandmothers prepare at Christmas and warm pajamas are a real pleasure in this film directed by Sharon Maguire. To look for her on the cable.
Believe it or not, Christmas can even be present in a gangster film
In ‘The Godfather (1972), by Francis Ford Coppola, there is an impressive scene. New York is covered in snow. It’s Christmas and the Don’s son, Michael (Al Pacino), has spent the night in a hotel with his girlfriend Kay (Diane Keaton) and is walking down Fifth Avenue buying gifts to take to his father’s house. Leaving a movie theater, Kay stares at a newsstand and sees a terrific headline on the front page: Gang Boss Vito Corleone Murdered! and in the background the classic Christmas song by Bing Crosby ‘Santa Claus is coming to town’ is heard. And for those who like adrenaline, they should look for a classic from the eighties: ‘Gremlins’ (1984), by Joe Dante. Behind the invasion of those sinister little monsters at Christmas, lies the sad story of Kate (Phoebe Kates), the protagonist’s girlfriend, who hated the Christmas party with all her might because her father died breaking his neck while trying to enter through the chimney. dressed as Santa Claus.
Another inevitable classic is ‘Little Women’ (1994), by Gillian Armstrong, with a luxury cast: Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon and Christian Bale. At Christmas 1994, a new adaptation of the most famous novel by Louisa May Alcott, an American writer, came to theaters, a book she left for posterity in 1868. Actually, it would be a trilogy and this film would correspond to the first part, with the stories of Meg, Jo and Amy; all of them inspired by the childhood lived by the writer with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. The film, a soap opera with notes as sublime as addictive, shows the life of a family during the 19th century, and how a mother (Susan Sarandon) manages to raise her four daughters, while her husband fights in the war American civilian. Each of them takes on a role that is easy to identify with, although the indomitable Jo (Winona Ryder) stands out above all. Role that earned Winona an Oscar nomination for best actress. It is, without a doubt, a genuine North American Christmas postcard, with a lot of nostalgia, snow and songs in front of a burning fireplace. I turn off the TV.
