Is Angelina Jolie a bad influence?
Categories: Teens & tweens, Health & safety, Eating & nutrition, Life & style
I admit that I am not all that familiar with Angelina Jolie's body of work. I know plenty about her body, her humanitarian work and her personal life, but I don't see many movies that aren't rated "G". I do know that Jolie gets a lot of positive press and that the only real criticism I've heard concerning her film work is that maybe she shouldn't be doing any with all those kids at home.
But someone has found something to complain about regarding Jolie in her new film, Wanted. Dr. Carole Lieberman, a psychiatrist in Los Angeles, thinks Jolie is too thin to be an action hero and worries that she presents an unrealistic image of what a strong woman looks like. "A super-thin, super-cool female action hero undoubtedly influences female moviegoers to emulate her," she said. "The underlying message is that being thin gives you power over men: physical and psychological."
Dr. George Pratt, another psychologist, prefers his action figures a little bulkier, like Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 and Carrie-Ann Moss in the Matrix films. "There women were represented in a way that displays strength, balance and a healthier body," he says.
Jolie is thin and not exactly what we are used to seeing when it comes to tough chicks in the movies. But it seems to me that there is another way to look at it. Like maybe skinny girls can kick butt, too? Or, it's just a movie and we all know Angelina Jolie isn't really an assassin?
But someone has found something to complain about regarding Jolie in her new film, Wanted. Dr. Carole Lieberman, a psychiatrist in Los Angeles, thinks Jolie is too thin to be an action hero and worries that she presents an unrealistic image of what a strong woman looks like. "A super-thin, super-cool female action hero undoubtedly influences female moviegoers to emulate her," she said. "The underlying message is that being thin gives you power over men: physical and psychological."
Dr. George Pratt, another psychologist, prefers his action figures a little bulkier, like Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 and Carrie-Ann Moss in the Matrix films. "There women were represented in a way that displays strength, balance and a healthier body," he says.
Jolie is thin and not exactly what we are used to seeing when it comes to tough chicks in the movies. But it seems to me that there is another way to look at it. Like maybe skinny girls can kick butt, too? Or, it's just a movie and we all know Angelina Jolie isn't really an assassin?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
BabyLove77 7-04-2008 @ 11:15AM
I don't recall either of the other two women being any "fuller" than AJL! That chick from the Matrix was WAY skinny and The Terminator lady wasn't exactly bulky. I think the main difference here is that AJL is selling more sex than the other two.
And besides....these are actors....in movies....it isn't real. None of these women can actually do any of that stuff. Most human beings, men or women, can do any of that stuff.
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Jenn 7-04-2008 @ 11:27AM
It's funny because in the Lara Croft movies, she certainly wasn't so stick thin -- she was more like Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2. I don't recall her being so thin in Mr & Mrs Smith either.
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Jenni 7-04-2008 @ 11:46AM
When a person, expecially a celebrity, leads a life in which there is nothing to complain about, critics must find something to complain about.
I've said it before: Leave this lady alone! She is raising her kids (not pawning them off on nannies) and she and Brad work their schedules so that only one is shooting at a time so that someone is home with the children. I commend her!
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Mamacita 7-04-2008 @ 2:23PM
Bad influence? Not unless you think adultery and out-of-wedlock babies are a bad influence. . . .
Her weight is her own business. Her antics are her own business, too, but a lot of silly, impressionable people tend to imitate what celebrities do. This doesn't mean she owes anybody an explanation of how she behaves; it merely means, there are a lot of silly, impressionable people out there who see her carry on as she does and think it's all right.
And to some, it is. To others, adultery and illegitimate babies ARE a big deal.
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Erin 7-04-2008 @ 3:14PM
It is a movie. And really if kids are seeing it then question the parental judgement as it is Rated R. THere are 2 very explicit scenes in the movie... DH and I were SHOCKED at the number of YOUNG children in the audience when we saw it (Our children were "vacationing" with their grandparents for the week).
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Amy 7-04-2008 @ 3:21PM
Jenni, you posts that she and Brad work their schedule so that one of them is at home? well, that is one way of doing it. They don't actually have any long breaks between their work schedules where both of them and the kids are in the same place doing nothing. Of course, we see them carting the kids about but they are all usually in one state or country or another because one of the parents is working there. The later stages of her current pregnancy is the first time neither of them has been working. I love a working woman or parent but I prefer people to tell the whole truth. Both Jolie and Pitt have made one movie after the other and of course, they have nannies to help out in the privacy of their homes but leave them there during outings.
The fact that they don't work at the same time doesn't make much of a difference if all that happens is that one parent is just waiting for the other to wrap his movie so that she can start her own and then move the family again. Add all their other activities outside of acting that require them to gallivant all over the place and you wonder whether they actually have other hours the rest of us don't have considering all their kids are under 7 and still need mummy and daddy to do things for them.
As for being too thin, it is not her job to be a role model for kids whose parents can't teach them the differences between reality and fiction. Yes, Jolie is too thin, she is in fact anorexic and has been that way since before Shiloh was born infact, she was like that through her pregnancy with Shiloh and the excuse that the death of her mother caused it is pure BS. She should go away and take care of herself and whatever issues she has. I am actually surprised her legs and arms haven't snapped yet. Good thing that the directors she works with know how to light her so well or that she can dress well and hide those ribs and potruding bones because frankly, her body is in the Amy Winehouse, Courtney Love territory. There is nothing hot about it. At least, in the latter stages of this pregnancy, she is starting to look human.
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Marilyn 7-05-2008 @ 2:57PM
Judge ye not, lest ye be judged.