Margaux Hemingway was the first model to garner a $1 million contract. She was the granddaughter of Earnest Hemingway.
Margaux committed suicide in 1996, one day before the anniversary of her grandfather’s suicide. A rather twisted family tale. This is supposed to warrant a movie about her life. Why?
Are stories of suicide and drug obsessed models who were spoilt brats, really what is needed in the world, during a global economic crises recovery? Good stories about fashion and the fashion world, yes! I’m all for those.
This story, about Margaux is debatable whether it is worthy or not to command 90+ minutes of an audience in movie theaters or on TV. But, Margaux story is being made for the screen none-the-less. Melissa George will be playing the lead.
If film producers are going to try and make this film, why not totally switch it up, and least offer the role to Lady Gaga. It will launch Stefani Germanotta‘s acting ambitions, her fashion house ambitions… and will also have the killer soundtrack. That’s way better than the delightful Melissa George, just bringing her face and acting talents to the film project. So, no matter which way I look at this film project… it is just all wrong, at this time in world history, the way the producers are proceeding with it.
Stories of fame and excess are so antiquated and nostalgic in a global recession.
No one really cares about spoiled rich people bemourning their extremely self-indulgent loss of place and history in the world. Outside of the US, no one cares about such a mentality. Come on America, stay relevant. Keep up with real stories that matter. Let’s live in today.
I would much rather see stories of people (like American immigrants) who created industry out of nothing but their hard work and a dream… and generated wealth for many others too…. like, fashion designers who created empires and employed many with their brilliance.
Design and stories of designers and business architecture are needed to rebuild America at this time, more so than just stories of wastefully spoiled human coat hangers who wore designers brilliance on their body, as ‘their gig’ in the modelling world… just being brats, who wasted their great American opportunity!
Care factor in this economy for such stories? Zero!
If the ‘movie premise’ for this film hinges on audience sympathy in: She had such a beautiful face and had good family history, but died too young. What a tragedy? Then Hollywood needs to think again and get a sense of global perspective pronto.
Women in Swaziland have this exact same story and are dying every day, so who cares about this storyline? I value a Swaziland women’s life as much as a super models. That’s just called being humane and a decent global citizen who breathes the same air on the planet.
Margie died at 41. She ended her own life. The average age for life expectancy in Swaziland of all adults is 32. They are trying to stay alive, eat, keep their children, history and selves alive each day against great odds while avoiding the bullets of bullies drunk-on-power with guns. These people are not wasting their lives, like the Hemingways did.
I mean really, Hollywood… why make this film?!!!
~Meow! I’m being b*tchy today! Sorry all. My sincere apologies go out to the literary greatness and American legacy of the Hemingway families and their descendants. Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California, USA, 11.06.09~
fully agree with your Hemingway assessment- Let’s minimize the supermodels with nothing else to offer but their looks-and focus on the more important and relevant issues at hand.