All the talk about Charlie's Angels Full Throttle being about female empowerment is a joke, because it's just about a bunch of girls being silly and their T&A. Of course Gothamist knew that, but the evidence is too overwhelming not to comment on. For starters, a painful-to-read interview by Sean Smith of Newsweek, with the Angels, Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu. Here's a sample:
BARRYMORE: It is gold.
DIAZ and LIU: [Loudly, imitating Mike Myers from “Austin Powers in Goldmember”] It’s gold!!
LIU: We imitate Mike Myers all the time. [To Barrymore] Do you think he knows?
BARRYMORE: Oh, he knows!
BARRYMORE and DIAZ: Because we told him! [Laughter]
BARRYMORE: We’ve accosted him in person several times.
BARRYMORE, DIAZ and LIU: It’s gold!
BARRYMORE: We get hooked on words and how to say them a certain way.
BARRYMORE and DIAZ: Gold!
And if Gothamist wanted to cry after reading that early part, we did actually cry after reading this:
Drew, what are your favorite body parts of Lucy’s and Cameron’s?
BARRYMORE: Lucy’s tushie and Cameron’s boobs. Not that I don’t love Cameron’s butt and Lucy’s boobs.
DIAZ: Lucy has great boobs. They’re so firm. [Grabs her own breasts]
Lucy?
LIU: It’s so hard, because I’ve seen both of these girls—
BARRYMORE: Naked for the last four years.
LIU: It’s so hard. I’m not as specific.
BARRYMORE: I wish I hadn’t been. [Laughter]
DIAZ: I wish I had Drew’s flesh. It’s so even and firm and voluptuous. Also, her profile is amazing.
BARRYMORE: Thanks, Poo. [To Liu] You have the most beautiful stomach.
DIAZ: Yeah, she has a great stomach.
BARRYMORE: You have the craziest stomach I’ve ever seen. It’s... dynamic.
LIU: For real?
BARRYMORE: For real.
Yes, these ladies are hot. But for the love of God, just stop talking. Stop. Don't speak. And aparently, there's a lot of licking going around in Charlie's Angels: Demi Moore licks Cameron Diaz's face. Yes, that's exploitative, and that's it. It's not as hot as Michelle Pffeifer licking Michael Keaton in Batman Returns. Or Cartman licking Scott Tenorman's tears.
Elvis Mitchell almost has an insulin attack after seeing Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle: It's like "eating a bowl of Honeycomb drenched in Red Bull — a dizzying mouthful of unabashed silliness that leads to an equally precipitous crash once the buzz wears off after the film's first hour."
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Sweet Mary Mother of Jesus! I am appalled. But, having seen these three in interviews, does anyone else think that Liu, while not exactly bright, is kind of annoyed by the other two? Seriously, she seems to be really not interested in this dog and pony show that the other two run. Also, does anyone else get really creeped out by Lui’s one rogue eye?
I start to freak out whenever I see one of the "Angels" on TV pimping the movie - this morning Drew was on the Today show and she was saying, "So, Poo - that's Cameron, my best friend - was..." But I continue to watch, thinking, "Shit, her eyeliner looks kinda cool."
And are you talking about a lazy eye my distant cousin by marriage might have?
Huh? I'm talking about that one freaking peeper that kinda' bolts off to the side when she's trying to stare straight ahead. It is especially obvious when they Oriental-up her wardrobe and hair to accentuate her, um, exoticness..
Maybe they'll all start a girl band. Then they and JLo could all do a girl power movie, in which they kick the asses of the Spice Girls using only their firm boobs and tight abs. Or something.
Do you think they are embarassed when they see themselves doing this?
Not when they are paid millions of dollars, no.
And, yes, I've seen Lucy's eye bug out when she's chinked up. Some people have eye issues.
Well, it makes my skin crawl.
What's the phrase - "Proof that light travels faster than sound: Some people look pretty bright until they open their mouths..."
Diaz employed the same marketing technique when she was in that awful movie "The Sweetest Thing" with Selma Blair and Christina Applegate. The "oh, gosh, aren't we so cute! we all best girlfriends" marketing ploy. yuck.
"You don't talk about actors in a movie like this, you talk about victims."
David Edelstein in Slate.com
Although in some ways the thought that they are legitimately friends is scarier than it being a marketing ploy, if truly friends they could be a veritable Voltron of vapidity when together and high-fiving and boob-squeezing and whatnot, and all of them thinking that they are just THE coolest group of famous girls ever assembled...
Gotta be a reason why media-portrayed grrrl power usually goes hand-in-hand with a heavy dose of T&A (e.g., Madonna's Gaultier bra, Lara Croft's heavy front-loaders). Is T&A the carrier to an otherwise unsettling (to some) idea, or intrinsic to a certain kind of girl power?
I think boobs go hand-in-hand with girl power. It's just problematic when the girls the boobs are attached to are insipid (the Angels, Pamela Anderson, etc).
In some way, the thought process is probably that it makes girl-power palatable to people who would otherwise be threatened or put off by it; even the worst macho dickhead would accept girl-power from one of Charlie's Angels, because 'Dude, they're like, hot!" So it's (in the development guy or whoever's head) the idea that that way they can get the girl-power crowd as well as the T&A crowd to shell out ten lousy bucks for the new movie.
abe: i think your assess. of liu is pretty perceptive. but i can't figure out if it the annoyance you mentioned is because (1) she's slightly smarter than the other two (and consequently gets sick of playing dumb), or (2) that because she is obviously an other/minority, we perceive her to be outsider. not sure which one.
You know what? I'm SO tired of hearing everyone saying, " All they did was swing around on some ropes" Cause, ya' know what? THEY WORKED EIGHT #$%* HOURS A DAY, AND SOME PEOPLE THINK THEY'RE DIVA'S OR SOMETHING! How retarded do you get! So what if they were loud at the interview, they were exited, you would've been to! Don't judge the actresses by the movie! They're reading someone else's script! Oh, and Delila? I think you're a bitch, and MAYBE you're jealouse, or something, either that, or you're like those weird people , always thinking that girls are always delicit, and teadrinking assholes! News flash, they aren't, so don't start about girl power.
You know what? I'm SO tired of hearing everyone saying, " All they did was swing around on some ropes" Cause, ya' know what? THEY WORKED EIGHT #$%* HOURS A DAY, AND SOME PEOPLE THINK THEY'RE DIVA'S OR SOMETHING! How retarded do you get! So what if they were loud at the interview, they were exited, you would've been to! Don't judge the actresses by the movie! They're reading someone else's script! Oh, and Delila? I think you're a bitch, and MAYBE you're jealouse, or something, either that, or you're like those weird people , always thinking that girls are always delicit, and teadrinking assholes! News flash, they aren't, so don't start about girl power.
You know what? I'm SO tired of hearing everyone saying, " All they did was swing around on some ropes" Cause, ya' know what? THEY WORKED EIGHT #$%* HOURS A DAY, AND SOME PEOPLE THINK THEY'RE DIVA'S OR SOMETHING! How retarded do you get! So what if they were loud at the interview, they were exited, you would've been to! Don't judge the actresses by the movie! They're reading someone else's script! Oh, and Delila? I think you're a bitch, and MAYBE you're jealouse, or something, either that, or you're like those weird people , always thinking that girls are always delicit, and teadrinking assholes! News flash, they aren't, so don't start about girl power.
You know what? I'm SO tired of hearing everyone saying, " All they did was swing around on some ropes" Cause, ya' know what? THEY WORKED EIGHT #$%* HOURS A DAY, AND SOME PEOPLE THINK THEY'RE DIVA'S OR SOMETHING! How retarded do you get! So what if they were loud at the interview, they were exited, you would've been to! Don't judge the actresses by the movie! They're reading someone else's script!