'We'll be a family'
I took so many notes on The Rain People. I was like, I really want to improve my writing, let me start being diligent about taking notes during a picture I am going to write about, especially if it’s a picture I’ve never seen. And I was all ready to blog with my notes and be on time with a Tuesday post this week, when my day job announced that morning that layoffs would happen that day.
Obviously, I rotted on the couch all day. At about 11am, I found out that I was personally safe, but I continued to rot—many good people are out of work! I rotted all yesterday, too. It is hard to shake that the entertainment industry really appears to be on its last gasp. I’m sure there will be some way forward, there always is, these things are cyclical, but it could take years to get to that upswing! People need to eat now, diva…
It’s just so disheartening. You go on LinkedIn and so many film industry staffers have been out of work for months or years even. And yet the studio heads keep making superhero movies that need to gross $750MM to be considered profitable and only end up making $500MM and so they have to cut a thousand salaries because the people at the top made stupid decisions.
Anyway, The Rain People! Francis Ford Coppola’s 1969 drama is about Natalie (Shirley Knight) who leaves her husband when she learns she is pregnant. She gets in the car and just starts driving! While driving, she spots a 28-year-old James Caan (whose character is also named Jimmy!) hitchhiking and is like, I think I’d like to get to know him. Girl, same. We learn that Jimmy was a star football player in college but he suffered a permanent brain injury the school paid him off to get the fuck out.
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