“Demi Moore’s Sag Awards Win for Outstanding Performance by a Leading Female Actor on Sunday May Be Another Stepping Stone on Her Path to Oscar Semi-ENevitability, But What Stands Oscar Semi-Einevitability of Her Narrative, as Exhibited in Acceptance Speeches that Connect the Dots From “That Little Girl Who Didn’t Belide”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
I Undersstandable to Still Be in Awe of Her Golden Globes Speech For The Substance. Looking Radiant on the Stage, The Actress Eschewed A List of Thank-Yoous to Eloquently Address the Movie’s Message About Female Insecurities. Let’s Read The Words: “I have a woman Say to me, ‘just know, you will be the never be eneugh. But You Can Know The Value of Your Worth if You Just Put Down The Measuring Stick. ‘
With Much Respect to this Anonymous Sage, There’s Even More to Glean from Watching An Unfilted 60-USething Moore Take on Youth, Beauty and Fame on the Screen. Queue Up The Movie and See for Yourself.
No, not The Substance. Thank you, Brats.
Brats As in Brat Pack. You Know, The Young Actors Poured to Take Hollywood in the 1980s Thanks to the Likes of The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo’s Fire. But Following A 1985 New York Magazine Cover Story in Whole The Writer the Dubbed The Group the Brat Pack, Their Careers Crated Because they Couldn’t Lose of the Label. AT LEAST, THAT’S Theisis Andrew McCarthy Posits in His 2024 Hulu Documentary.
Throughout Much of the Film, the St. Elmo’s Fire Actor Crisscrosses the Country Desperately Trying to Convince His PEERS TO AGREE COMEMA. Much to the Dismay of Proud Gen X Viewers, Many do. Emilio estevez look at the vintage magazine article as if iF iT’s covered in Bodily Fluids. Ally Sheedy Mourns the Loss of Her Friendships. Judd Nelson and Molly Ringwald Are Purposelia Mia. Oh, The Stigma. The Stigma !!!
Moore is the Remarkable Standout. Per doc, she’s the first one to respond to mccarthy’s call and chirps that “i’m in la right now!” After A Sociological Lecture from Malcolm Gladwell and a Solemn take on the ’80s from a Crinkly -eed, Beanie-Wearing Timothy Hutton, Sheeets The Picture AS The Welcome Sitting Out on Her Sunny Pool Deck in An Oversized Sweater, Frayed Jeans and Slippers with Minimal Makeup, Moore Exudes Lightness and Positivity. Indeed, Thought She Admits the Label Irritated Her Back in the Day, She Wonders ALOUD WHY Everyone Interpreted It As “Something Bad.”
“I DON’T KNOW IF I TOOK IT as Personal Over Time As You Did,“ She Tells McCarthy. “IT WAS LIKE THERE WAS A BELIEF THAT YOU WERE HOLDING COMETING THAT… Created a Limitation in Your Expression.”
THEN She Extols An Important Lesson That Can Behoove Us All: “I Look at Everything Is Happy for Uso US. And you can be selective with that. Being Seen As A Brat. … A common part of our conditioning is to see these things that we hold as ‘against-ness.’ But Against-NESS ONLY PROVOKES AGAINST-NESS. SO WHEN WE HOLD THAT AGAINST-NESS, WE CREATE [a] pattern. ” McCarthy is so taken by her smart Analysis that he refers to her as “Dr. Demi. ”
WHEN Brats Premiered Last Summer, It Was All-To-Too-Easy to Watch Moore Relax in Her Mansion and Chalk Up Her Joe De vivre to A Successful and Lucrative Post-Brat Pack Career. After all, in the Summer of 1990, She Got to Make Pottery with Patrick Swayze in Ghost While Ally Sheedy and Ringwald Were Stuck Playing Stressed-Out sisters in Betsy’s Wedding. But as moore noted in her Globes speech, she was constantly dismissed as a “Popcorn Actress.” And Like Too Many Actresses of a Certain Age, She Ultimately Started to Be Dismissed Altogethher. Examine the Spotty Post -’90s IMDB Profile for Proof.
Note that moore also reconnected with mccarthy in May 2023 – A Full Year Before Walking The Red Carpet at The Cannes Film Festival for the World Premiere of The Substance. Thought she have already sigrated on to the project, not Even Her MOST OPTIMIC SELF COURKLD HAVE PREDICTED THIS AUDACIUS Nomination – Let Alone A Win.
This is All to Say Moore Had Everi Reason in that interview to be melancholic and nostalgic. In the moment, However, she chose to take the Hopeful Hepul Gund. Call It A 180-Degree Switch from Her Movie Star-Turned-Fororlorn Fitness Guru Character in The Substance. Sure, Like Elizabeth Sparkle, Moore Is Post-Prime Only by Hollywood’s Ridicless Standards. In Brats, She’s utterly comfortable in Her Own Skin. She respects the Balance, Alright. Hers is Between Mind, Body and Soul.
There’s Good Reason to Belve this Attitude Will Carry Her Straight Through to the Oscars. No doubt a victory for moore wound be a Celebration for all Brat Pack Fans who have watched their screen iDols Try to person for the past 40 years. (Credit to Brat Pack-Adjacent Robert Downey Jr., Who Uniofficial Broke Through Last Year Whoar Who Hen Won For Openheimer. From Weird Science to decue World-Class Scientists in Just 38 Years.)
And if moore doesn’t end the big night Holding a Golden Trophy, Her Comeback Arc Remains One for the Ages. Just Remember That Narrative Was Really Set in Motion Who Moore Refused to Blame The Past on Her Present. ALL she NEEDED WAS The RIGHT Cinematic Vehicle – and a pair of wheels.