This all started with the music from Il Postino (the postman). Beautiful lyrical music that captured a bunch of awards for the (great movie). This has prettymuch continued as the artsy movie every year gets a Miramax classical music pitch.
This year it started on "A Very Long Engagement". Understandable.
But over the last few days - the radio has been pushing "Million Dollar Baby".
Let us ignore, for the moment, the unfortunate similarity to the movie title "Million Dollar Mermaid" with Ester Williams - undoubtably a more entertaining movie.
"Million Dollar Baby" (MDB) is about a a woman who becomes a professional boxer. A poor southern woman with no education - who must lean on men to help her. It stars 3 (count 'em 3) oscar winners in Hillary Swank, Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freman. It is offensive to southerns, poor people, women (who must depend on men to make it) and people of all ages with a brain.
Hillary Swank delivers arguable horrible lines ("People say I'm pretty tough.") in even worse hick southernese "Pee-a-pul sah Imah a purty tuff."
Clint Eastwood responds with his best Clint Eastwood impersonation - a growl that says "Girlie tought ...pause... ain't enough" You just want to say "do dah do dah" after it.
Morgan Freeman (token minority) comes off best as he isn't in the commercial.
"For your consideration" Phffbtt!
