Maddox & Zahara Share Clothes!

nice multi post #38,40 and 43. Why so snippy? Valid point being made…if you saw Angelina putting Mad in girls clothing again and again, wouldn’t you notice? make a comment? I don’t see this as being a “hater”, just observing and wondering why?

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524 curly | 06/23/2007 at 12:24 am
Has the following been posted before? If so, apologies for double posting.
~c.
An anatomy of faith and ‘Heart’
Based on the memoir of his widow, Mariane Pearl, the stunning ‘A Mighty Heart’ revolves around the 2002 kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

B
y Peter Rainer |
Film critic of The Christian Science Monitor

On so many levels, “A Mighty Heart” is almost as excruciating to write about as it is to watch. It has many of the virtues of a first-rate political thriller, and yet who can think of it in those terms?

Based on the memoir of his widow, Mariane Pearl, it’s about the 2002 kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and the five-week hunt for the Islamist terrorists who would prove to be his killers.

Danny, played by actor and “Capote” screenwriter Dan Futterman, is first introduced to us in Karachi, Pakistan, where he is running down a story about would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid. Recently arrived from Afghanistan, where both he and the pregnant Mariane, played by Angelina Jolie, were covering the post-9/11 US bombings, Danny is quickly lured into a treacherous endgame with his captors.

The brief shot of him waving goodbye to Mariane as he gets into a cab is ominous in the extreme. From that point on, except for a few subsequent moments with Danny on his fated rounds, and a couple of flash backs to his wedding day and marital bliss, we never see him again. His absence is the movie’s strongest presence.

As with Mariane, and the expanding circle of advisers and friends who attempt to locate Danny, we are put in the harrowing position of ferreting out the facts of his disappearance piece by piece. We, unlike the protagonists, know the outcome, which adds an extra layer of despair.

Directed with tense docudrama exactness by Michael Winterbottom, from a screenplay by John Orloff, “A Mighty Heart” is, in one sense, an anatomy of how people under extreme duress keep the faith. When Danny’s parents, after reports that he has gone missing, hear the news that he has been kidnapped, they are jubilant. It means he’s alive. When Mariane sees the video of Danny as a captive, she reads defiance in his body language.

Interviewed on television, Mariane is asked what message she would like to send Danny and without hesitation, she says, “I love you.” The romance between them is among the most quietly believable depictions of ardor that I have ever seen in a movie. Before he is kidnapped, we see Danny fooling with his very pregnant wife, or talking shop with dinner friends, and we recognize immediately the emotional honesty that is the armature of their love. Honesty is also at the heart of their passion for reporting. (Although it presents obvious dangers in his line of work, Danny is always forthcoming about being Jewish.)

The Pearls’ shared devotion to the cause of journalistic truth is what sets this movie apart from so many other movies about reporters in war zones, even great ones, like “Under Fire.” Is it more dangerous now to be a reporter than at any other time in history? Probably not, and it would be another form of romanticism to think so, but it may seem like the stakes are higher now, and the methods of subterfuge ever more Byzantine.

The search for Danny in “A Mighty Heart” is accomplished mostly through high-tech skullduggery, and it leads to the inescapable conclusion that, as individuals, our survival or obliteration is dependant on how wired we are into the world.

With her belly protruding and her hair piled high, Jolie completely absorbs herself in the role. Raised in France and of Afro-Cuban and Dutch descent, Mariane is worldly in the best sense – she gains sustenance from the differentness of her life experiences.

“A Mighty Heart” puts great store in Mariane’s spiritual composure, and this is the only part of the movie that seems insufficient to me. Her yowls of rage and disbelief when she hears the news of Danny’s execution soon give way to a kind of transcendence. Her articulation of sorrow is glossed over and she becomes a paragon of how to rise above grief.

Winterbottom wants us to see Mariane as a champion of the soul and a shining example of how to survive these parlous times. But the emotional effect of “A Mighty Heart” is too tangled and inchoate for such easy uplift. The movie’s power diminishes its conclusion.

Grade: A

Jess, not “frilly dresses from the 90’s” or even dresses at all. Maybe jean shorts or skirt with a girls top? We’d be curious if Pax or Mad dressed in girl shirts so why you being so deffensive? I understand that maybe this shirt was a gift from a friend and they would like to keep it in the family for awhile but Pax being the next in line should be wearing it not Z. It’s way to big and she IS a girl.

I love Angie, she is a very practical woman. This woman is really living the real life of a good parent, wife/loving partner and a working mother.
When you are traveling, you can only bring limited clothes. With four children you have to juggle everything, from clothes to food, your time and endless things to get thru the day. She must have that clean shirt for the day for Z to wear or Pax or any of the children who needs a clean clothing. Only a real mother can understand this. So just IGNORE those ignorant comments. They do not know the true happiness of being a mother. It is what is in the heart that will define one’s happiness.

#48 Jess,
Yeah , your right. This family doesn’t value material things at all. That’s why they own of 28 million worth of homes (5!) and 7 million in aircraft, multi motorcycles and cars (big gas guzzling ones) Hell Brad’s wardrobe for the OCEANS 13 premier tour cost more than you and I make in a year, not to mention hair makeup travel Angelina’s wardrobe ( aside from the $25 dollar find with the $600 in alterations)$1200 shoes.

No your right. You do know them best.

I think that Zahara is just soooo gorgeous! I’ve never ever in my life seen such a beautiful little girl. (if I said otherwise I won’t get published).

Maria | 06/23/2007 at 8:01 am
I think that Zahara is just soooo gorgeous! I’ve never ever in my life seen such a beautiful little girl. (if I said otherwise I won’t get published).

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laughing a lot!!!

Little girls in American society are almost programmed from the git-go to be materialistic and image-conscious. Why are there racks and racks of little girls clothes and only a small section for boy’s items in any given store? Parents often buy way too many clothes for little girls, more than they wear. Kudos to Angie and Brad for keeping it simple. They are not encouraging consumerism in their kids. Plus, with traveling, you need to streamline.

And who is to say Z doesn’t have a choice in what she wears? My 3 year old niece is a beautiful little girl but she abhors anything frilly or fussy. You put it on her and she immediately wants it off, saying it is itchy. She wants her tees and jeans. Z may be the same. Angie already said Z doesn’t like bows in her hair. She pulls them out.

There are alot of pictures with Z in a dress…the Gala cover from last year comes to mind. Z lookslike a happy little girl, so people should stop projecting their own ideas about their own children onto her. Just be happy for her and her family. If you are judging her and her parents by what she is wearing, then you are the one with issues of stereotyping, not them.

Most of you people are exactly what Angelina dislikes in a person…YOU THINK WHAT YOU SEE IS WHO YOU KNOW.

pathetic really.

I CAN’T BELIEVE JENNIFER ANISTON GOT DRAGGED (and I mean dragged) INTO THIS THREAD?! WHAT THE HELL DOES SHE HAVE TO DO WITH THIS?

IS YOUR PRIVATE INTERPRETATION OF AGELINA AS SOMEONE WHO WOULD ENJOY READING SNARKY COMMENTS , LEFT BY HER “FANS”, ABOUT BRAD’S EX-WIFE, ON THE SAME BLOG AS HER FAMILY AND HOW THEY ARE TRYING TO DO THEIR PART OF MAKING THE WORLD A MORE SAFE,BEAUTIFUL AND FAIR PLACE?

TO HATE SO BLINDLY WITH SUCH MALICE GOES AGAINST EVERTHING ANGELINA AND BRAD ARE WORKING SO HARD AGAINST.

Don’t forget the People spread debuting Shiloh; Z had on a bluish-gray dress there. And the pap shots of Z with Holly and Maddox; we saw her, in a dress, standing, walking around, and lounging on a chaise lounger. A precursor to the personality that we’re seeing now.

And if Zahara is as bonded with Pax as Angelina alluded to in several interviews, I suspect that she’s playing in the dirt with him, possibly looking at bugs with him. Wearing dresses is not conducive to playing, especially with rough-housing boys, whether they’re your brothers or schoolmates. And quite frankly, wearing those little bottoms with dresses only looks cute for so long, IMO.

67 we bla bla = viviane

Nothing against the Jolie-Pitts I do like them very much, but Angelina is NOT a “wife”. She is his live-in girlfriend and together they have children. The term “parnter” is reserved for those of us that cannot marry legally (ie gay couples)Angelina and Brad have that legal choice. They have chosen not to for their own reasons.

Maybe the term “common law” wife is appropriate.