Tres Jolie

Love her or hate her (and, really, I’m not entirely sure why you’d hate her – unless you are just hardcore Team Jennifer 4 Lyfe), Angelina Jolie is a big fucking movie star. She is one of the biggest, shiniest stars today. And she is probably the biggest female movie star out there right now (with all due respect to Meryl, Julia, Scarlett, Jennifer, et al). Granted, her box office up until “Maleficent” may not have borne that out. But movie stardom is more than just about money. It’s about mystique. And, fucking hell, does Angie have that in shit down. It helps to have her face, that face. But as articles have attested recently, no one has more impressive, more impeccable publicity game than Angelina right now. What makes Angelina such a movie star is the sense of the unattainable. Sure, Jennifer Lawrence is relatable and we all wish she was our BFF. But that makes her likable, not a movie star. Whether we like to admit it or not, what we want from our movie stars is different. We want them to remain impeccable, out of reach and beautiful to behold. Always twinkling in a sky so high most of us never even dare to venture there. That’s a fucking movie star.

p.s. Oh yeah, I also reviewed “Maleficent” for AfterEllen (which should be up a little later today). So, clearly, Angie’s been on my mind.