Orlando (1993)

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Tilda Swinton Interview, Burn A ...
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"Tilda Swinton has made a career out of playing interesting characters, although her shrewish portrayal of Katie Cox in Burn After Reading probably won’t endear her to many. She plays the epitome of a controlling woman who has her CIA husband Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) sandwiched squarely under her thumb. Or there could be a cadre of career-minded women out there who’d want to use her as a role model, I’m not sure. The film has been getting mixed reviews ever since its debut at the Venice Film Festival, although they all seem to laud the performances. Swinton performs adequately enough in the film, but she isn’t given much to do, and seeing her with George Clooney just makes me want to watch Michael Clayton all over again. I might even have to pull [More]

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"Why does actor Tilda Swinton play a man in the beginning of Orlando and switch to the role of a woman? Clearly, she is a woman playing a man's part and then a woman playing a woman's part. Why not have a male actor play the man's part and then switch actors to a woman actor playing a woman's part? I take this female (and obviously so) casting to symbolize how women in literature disguised themselves as men because of oppression and over time break away from the disguise ( a man's name), for the world eventually accepts female writers. However, I am simply guessing at the meaning here, for I do not know the history of women through literature. I am assuming that women wrote in the 1600's and wrote under the name of a man. Even if this interpretation of literature is historically inaccurate, the movie Orlando is about female development over time. I feel that I would understand the movie better if I knew more about the feminist movement, but I will analyze the movie as I understand i ... " [More]

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