Whip It is Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut starring Ellen Page, and it’s all about female empowerment. It tells the uplifting story if how one girl whose parents wanted to put her in beauty pageants succeeded in a patriarchal system by flexing and being awesome and kicking ass and Avril Lavigne. So to promote it, Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page decided to liplock like a couple reluctant party lesbians at a beer pong tournament because this totally isn’t played out already. Oh ladies, you gotta use some tongue if you wanna impress the Psi Chis! At least a grope!
More like Drew BOREymore, amirite?? *dodges tomato, rides off on roller skates*
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Below is the official trailer and some possible spoilers for Inception, the film Chris Nolan has to finish before he can work on the next Batman sequel (he already dropped out of The Prisoner). The official site for the movie is now live, although all that’s on it right now is this nifty buttplug.
YOUR MIND *sunglasses on* IS THE SCENE OF THE CRIME *YEEEAAAAAAAH!*
Did I leave the oven on?
The trailer for Chris Nolan’s latest, Inception, is going to play in theatres before many showings of Inglourious Basterds. But don’t let the fact that there will probably be bootlegs available in a day stop us from speculating on what’s in the trailer. Will there be tigers? Explosions? Whips and creatures? Secret dwarf whores? Well some people have already seen the trailer; let’s hear it from them. There’s a youtube trailer with 64 views (below) that I can sum up as, “uh . . . um . . . helicopter . . . and
. . . um . . . hallway . . . and . . . um . . . pretty cool.”
Slashfilm has a review from a tipster as well:
At long last we have a trailer from Whip It, Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut about a girl (Ellen Page) who doesn’t want to be in beauty pageants so she joins the roller derby.
Bliss (Page) tries out as Babe Ruthless for a team named the Hurl Scouts, where she hopes to skate alongside the likes of Maggie Mayhem (Kristen Wiig) and Smashley Simpson (Drew Barrymore). The movie also features Marcia Gay Harden as Bliss’ disapproving mother, and Jimmy Fallon as a hungover announcer named Hot Tub Johnny [if the name sounds familiar it's because Andrew Dice Clay used to talk about a guy named Hot Tub Johnny West a lot]. [via /Film]
Anyway, you can tell it’s about teenage rebellion because all the girls wear plaid skirts, and plaid skirts = subverting the dominant paradigm. “Find your tribe,” reads the title card. Because that’s what rebellion is; you find some people you think are cool and then try to dress and act just like them. Like when I used to rub dirt on my face and yell “Look, I’m Mexican!” Okay, bad example.
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…the camera. USA Today just premiered the first publicity stills from Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut, Whip It, based on the book Derby Girl. She’ll also act in the film, playing Smashley Simpson, alongside Kristen Wiig as Maggie Mayhem, Death Proof’s Zoe Bell as Bloody Holly, Juliette Lewis as Iron Maven, Eve, and Ellen Page.
Page plays a 17-year-old Texas girl named Bliss Cavendar, who hates the beauty pageants her mother (Marcia Gay Harden) makes her compete in and finds a release for her secret aggressive side by joining the underground world of roller derby.
“Everything I’ve learned throughout my whole life, whether it was going to a museum or listening to a certain song, has been going into this piggy bank, and I just smashed it all over the floor for this one,” Barrymore says. [more pics available at USA Today]
Look, I’ll freely admit that 85% of the reason I hate Drew Barrymore is that her speech impediment weirds me out, but I’ll still bet most of my bank account that Drew’s idea of girl power and rebellion is gonna be a lot like an Avril Lavigne song. She’s just a sk8r gurl, she said see ya l8r gurrl….
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