Monday, November 28, 2011

Journal 5: I am a Fanning Fan!

After seeing the movie Super 8 by Steven Spielberg I couldn't help myself but to read an article on it: It was, "‘Super 8’: Elle Fanning has the pedal down on Hollywood career"written by Geoff Boucher." (http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/06/07/super-8-elle-fanning-has-the-pedal-down-on-hollywood-career/)


Elle Fanning, the sister of Dakota Fanning(most famously known from the movie War of the Worlds), finally depicts herself as a future Hollywood star. In fact, all the child actors in the movie have showed great potential for future Hollywood fame. The movie is a sci-fi tale about an alien in Ohio and these kids just happen to capture all the strange events while filming a zombie home-video.


This article interviews one of the main child actors, Elle Fanning, about her time spent filming Super 8 and she really gives off a very relaxed and passionate attitude towards the experience. The best part about this film was the era that this film was based in; 1979. With responses to questions within the article, a certain question Elle was asked was she portrayed this vintage pop-culture character. Elle hopes that through her acting, which is far more serious and a better-screamer than the other sister, Dakota, she can portray a this vintage acting and make Super 8 a new classic movie such as E.T. or The Goonies. I know it isn't fair to compare and contrast the two sisters on their acting abilities, but personally and truthfully speaking Elle has shown more potential in acting than Dakota Fanning has. 


Both blonde, blue eyed beauties have amazing talent in the acting career, but there can only be one sister that  out shines the other; that is Elle Fanning.


Fanning Fan Forever,
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Fanning Sisters
Left: Dakota Fanning
Right: Elle Fanning
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April Opatik

1 comment:

  1. I agree with you on the preference of Elle over Dakota. She has this "Je ne sais quoi" about her that reels a viewer into her performance. Super 8 sounds like an interesting movie and I will take your review to thought.

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