Heigl slams "Knocked Up"?
Usually I wouldn't do this, but I thought this was an interesting tidbit about one of my favorite movies of the year. Katherine Heigl, who played the female lead in this year's hit "Knocked Up" said the following in an interview with Vanity Fair:
("Knocked Up" is) "a little sexist. It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days. I'm playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you're portraying women? Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie."
I'm not posting this to badmouth her, but rather to point out a little something about her comments, because I do think in part she is correct. The film is a romantic comedy from a guy's perspective. In the vast majority of romantic comedies, men are portrayed in a similarly sexist fashion. In the case of "Knocked Up," that's part of the point, that men don't understand women.
I disagree that her character was a "bitch," as she said. Her character was a decent person and was straightlaced in comparison to Seth Rogen's slacker stoner. She wasn't a "killjoy," she was a responsible adult.
In those moments when she was being a "bitch," she was hormonal, but she felt bad about her blowups.
It seems to me that more than her slamming the movie, it demonstrates her lack of understanding as to what the film was really about.
Thoughts?
Grey's Anatomy, Steve Carell, Knocked Up, Judd Apatow, Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogen, Frat Pack, Paul Rudd
I agree. The few times I've seen her speak in interviews or read about her, she's come across as being a bit "bitchy" herself. That's not going to get you far in that industry if you start burning bridges early.
I agree with Lila. With all they hype, I think I just expected so much more from this film. I really didn't find it funny. Maybe there was one or two scenes I felt I actually laughed, but I couldn't wait for the movie to be over.
I must have missed it where the movie said that her character was a representative of all women... or that Rogen's was for all men... IMO she's the bitch... not her character..
joe.shearer : RE: Heigl slams "Knocked Up"? More..
Well, I'm assuming she is including Leslie Mann's character as well, who was a little shrewish, but still, they were both relatively good characters. They had motives behind what they did, and they were both nice people at the core. They weren't just bitchy for the sake of being a shrew, and they both also came across as sensitive, caring women.
The fantasy baseball scene was a good character moment for Mann's character. It wasn't that she hated that he was having fun, it was that she couldn't understand why he needed to be away from her, but at the same time she needs that time away too, but didn't really know it.
The best thing to me is that with both Mann and Paul Rudd and with Rogen and Heigl, both characters were right and both were wrong in most of their arguments. Like Rudd's character said, their biggest argument is that she loves him too much.
The film was about people growing up and learning to live happily within that most unnatural act of living with another person (and raising children).
DigitalEvolution : RE: Heigl slams "Knocked Up"? More..
i must be sphmoric cause i thought that knocked up ans superbad were hilarious!
I think her career peaked with 'Under Siege 2.' It's all been downhill since then.
Saying that "Knocked Up" portrays all women as humorless shrews suggests that the film portrays all men as immature, stoner slackers.
I'm a woman, and I found the film absolutely hilarious. I saw it twice while it was in theaters.
Christopher Lloyd : RE: Heigl slams "Knocked Up"? More..
I don't think either gender comes off particularly well in this flick...
The only character who was 100% likable was Harold Ramis as Seth's dad.
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