Carrie Fisher's Two New Movies
As anyone who knows me knows, I am a HUGE Carrie Fisher fan. I do like to differentiate this between my Star Wars love, which is still as strong as ever but I consider my Carrie Fisher woman-crush to be totally separate from my Star Wars/Princess Leia crush. Why? Because Leia is Leia and Carrie is Carrie and I've met Carrie and I will never, ever meet Leia. Besides, Leia was created by George Lucas. And Leia is a princess/soldier/Jedi Knight and Carrie is a writer/mother/actor.
But that is not the point of this post. The point of this post is that Carrie, who confines her "acting" these days to cameos, mostly, has a couple of movies on the horizon. (I am not knocking Carrie's acting ability. I put acting in quotations because more often than not, Carrie is either spoofing herself or an aspect of her public persona.)
One is the slasher flick (is it a remake?) called Sorority Row. Here is the trailer:
I guess Carrie is playing the sorority's den mother or something. But, there she is, at the end of the trailer, being sassy and wielding a huge shotgun before the icky happens. (Carrie has died twice on screen in her career so far. The first death was as poet Emma Lazarus in the teleflick "Liberty." The second was more traumatizing for me and occurs in the film "The Time Guardian." It's icky and I don't like to talk about it.)
But, as proof of the wonderfully considerate person she is, Carrie hinted that she dies a gooey death in this slasher flick so I was forewarned.
The second film, a "seriously independent" film is called White Lightnin'.
Here is the trailer for this film:
Yep... that's Carrie... in the shower with the weird, dancing guy and it looks like there's some drinking and craziness going on. I will probably have to wait for DVD to see this film... I'm intrigued because, judging from the trailer, this isn't Carrie doing the normal sort of cameo (examples: Fanboys, Austin Powers 1, Scream 3, The Women remake). This is Carrie in a dark-themed movie about someone with some serious "inner demons." I doubt this film will get any attention but what if she delivers a knock-out performance? What if the performance was so good that she gets some attention, some praise, some accolades and--dare I say it?--awards? Hey, it happened with Mickey Rourke!
I doubt it. The film looks too independent/b-film to gain anything other than serious cult following but I can dream, can't I?
But that is not the point of this post. The point of this post is that Carrie, who confines her "acting" these days to cameos, mostly, has a couple of movies on the horizon. (I am not knocking Carrie's acting ability. I put acting in quotations because more often than not, Carrie is either spoofing herself or an aspect of her public persona.)
One is the slasher flick (is it a remake?) called Sorority Row. Here is the trailer:
I guess Carrie is playing the sorority's den mother or something. But, there she is, at the end of the trailer, being sassy and wielding a huge shotgun before the icky happens. (Carrie has died twice on screen in her career so far. The first death was as poet Emma Lazarus in the teleflick "Liberty." The second was more traumatizing for me and occurs in the film "The Time Guardian." It's icky and I don't like to talk about it.)
But, as proof of the wonderfully considerate person she is, Carrie hinted that she dies a gooey death in this slasher flick so I was forewarned.
The second film, a "seriously independent" film is called White Lightnin'.
Here is the trailer for this film:
Yep... that's Carrie... in the shower with the weird, dancing guy and it looks like there's some drinking and craziness going on. I will probably have to wait for DVD to see this film... I'm intrigued because, judging from the trailer, this isn't Carrie doing the normal sort of cameo (examples: Fanboys, Austin Powers 1, Scream 3, The Women remake). This is Carrie in a dark-themed movie about someone with some serious "inner demons." I doubt this film will get any attention but what if she delivers a knock-out performance? What if the performance was so good that she gets some attention, some praise, some accolades and--dare I say it?--awards? Hey, it happened with Mickey Rourke!
I doubt it. The film looks too independent/b-film to gain anything other than serious cult following but I can dream, can't I?
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