Sacred_Path

You can tell that it's "crap" from reading even a small excerpt, which just furthers my confusion why it's not allowed in schools (someone once sent me a text file). It's certainly not a devilishly clever device that could seriously influence anyone today IMO. It's toilet paper material, not a dark grimoire.

Exactly. Antisemitism would be a great topic for students to explore for its social dynamics, since it happened in all walks of life, including bullying at schools. But we never seriously approached that subject apart from reading short stories that were looked at from a literary standpoint mostly. As I've heard, Perks (the book) also deals with things like rape, and I can say that I've never read a text in all my schoolyears that contained anything that even smelled of rape.

Hitler's Mein Kampf can't be read in German schools due to censorship, not even excerpts. This in a country that does its utmost to always remind people and especially students of its dark past; the only information many pupils are handed is "he was a natural speaker and the total material deprivation of vast numbers of Germans didn't help". I know, the analogy seems way way off... but my point is that in the Western world, students often aren't trusted to deal with difficult/ ambiguous moral questions.

How does not having an opinion mean less intrusion into your privacy, and how does it protect you? From what?

I was 20 once. It was awful

I don't think so. She was more outspoken in the past, according to her what mattered most to her was family and friends, education and environmental awareness. It's only in her post-Potter life now that she's been kind of elusive.

But how exactly does it improve things for you if you simply try to dodge publicity? I'm p. sure that doesn't make the feelings of awkwardness go away. I'd advise her to speak her mind more often on all kinds of matters, and soon people would stop looking at her as some kind of iconic saint

When you feel like an imposter, the problem isn't people's expectations, it's your perception of yourself. And I think her reluctance to tell more about herself has to do with that.

I think Emma unfortunately subscribes to the same reasoning - "I'm young, and I don't want to be typecast, and I certainly don't want to seem clueless". See her "imposter syndrome" comment. It's unfortunate because not everything you say, even as a person of public interest, is set in stone, and people wouldn't judge her half as harshly as she seems to believe they would. Jonny is right, Emma tries to steer a ship without navigation, she wants to be in the public eye with her work but she takes herself back when it comes to sharing personal insights.

If she wanted to be really contrarian she could say "I love being in Germany and I'd like to live there for some time". You only hear that about once every 30 years (possible exceptions: David Bowie, George Clooney)

*facepalm* why thanks!

how do I turn off the spell checker for private messages? It doesn't support other languages (i.e. German)

nah, I'm just not creative ATM

possible subtitle: meow

I want to know what's going on in that picture.

in terms of paps, that may be so. But it also seems much less forgiving/ more about jealousy-fueled hatred.

Not really surprising, she has expressed her fondness of 'Murrica and 'Murricans several times. I could imagine that it's inviting to stay and enjoy the hubris afforded movie stars there, then go back to the rougher climate of Britain once she's more settled

Personally I'm hoping for a mostly light, fun movie; it shouldn't be too heavy handed. The implications of everything going on inside and around the Bling Ring are too obvious. I don't need a director to point them out to me.

Welp, they certainly set the tone for that with those trailers.

you're probably right, though I wonder if that's not too meta for the Bling Ring audience

I don't think her performance was bad, but in my mind, Emma would have been the obvious choice for Nina's role, and vice versa. Well I saw some pictures of that very scene from Neier's reality show juxtaposed with Emma's performance, and what can I say, she's actually very close. Neiers doesn't seem to have been a natural at seduction either

I have the same feeling that I had in Perks, when I saw Nina Dobrev play the concerned good-hearted sister; that she got the wrong role. I have no doubt that Claire Julien would have seemed much more at ease in this scene

Scenes like the one above make me wonder if Emma is the right fit for this kind of role (talking about the water boy scene). It seems like 1) she isn't used to attracting male attention by having her assets hang out or 2) Emma's (probably Sofia's) vision of Nicki isn't someone who's exactly promiscuous but rather manipulative I think I read something to the effect of 1 but I think 2 is probably true as well. Either way it didn't seem organic. We won't know until she plays an all-out slutty character

nice that she ended up being so involved.

I definitely think that most interviewers don't get much out of her. She seems to open up more in a natural conversation. Unfortunately, not every magazine can afford to have a 6-page Emma Watson interview in the form of a rambling conversation. That's very indie though