Julie Powell Fan Fiction

The best moment, for me, in the movie Julie & Julia happened when Julie Powell, powerless bureaucrat turned famous blogger, finds out that her idol and inspiration, Julia Child, is unwilling to spare a kind word for the work that she inspired. Apparently, Child has less than flattering things to say regarding Powell’s blog, which is about Powells’ own efforts to cook her way through Childs’ famous cookbook.

“Julia hates me,” says Amy-Adams-as-Powell to her husband, and he gently assures her that this is not literally true, and that anyway, it doesn’t matter.

I have nothing against Powell, who impressed me enough with the article, artfully laden with subtext, that she wrote about the movie’s portrayal of her cat, that I plan to read her book, which surely has merits not explored by the film. But this painful moment was my favorite part of the movie because it was also the part that was the most real. Read the rest of this entry »