Post #2

Movie stars are not like regular people. They don't know how to be normal humans, they can only "pretend to be human." The only way a star like Angelina Jolie can know of this kind of normalcy is by "research done while preparing for just such roles" (Cohen 4).

Original text:

But there is something else about the movie - especially the scene in which the assassins sit down for a quiet dinner. The text is killers undercover, but the subtext is movie stars pretending to be a normal couple. That's what the scene is really about. The oddity, the strangeness of that life - how movie stars pretend to be human, like us, but know quotidian American supermarket life only from research done while preparing for just such roles.

MLA Citation:

Cohen, Rich. "A Woman in Full." Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair. July 2008. Web. 31 Jan. 2011.