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Magic Mike

And All Was Right With the World

If Twilight Had Cast Paul Giamatti as Edward I Definitely Would Have Seen It [VIDEO]

by Rebecca Pahle | 2:25 pm, January 25th, 2013

So here’s National Treasure Paul Giamatti acting out scenes from Twilight, You’ve Got Mail, and Magic Mike. He… emotes a little more than Robert Pattinson, let’s put it like that.

The video is behind the jump; it went dead at a few minutes ago because apparently some Higher Power doesn’t think the world is ready to handle the awesome that is Paul Giamatti as a creepy, stalkerish sparkly vampire. But when embed code’s working again—soon, hopefully—you can judge that for yourself. [Edit: It appears to be working now.]

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Oh Really?

Male Actors of Magic Mike Struggle With Objectification, Personal Appearance, and Body Hair

by Susana Polo | 3:45 pm, June 28th, 2012

Magic Mike is not a movie that’s been pinging very loudly on my radar, and so it wasn’t really until today that I figured out what it’s all about: Channing Tatum as a veteran male stripper tutoring a younger guy (while dating said young guy’s sister) and deciding that though the work certainly gives him an ego boost he no longer finds it very fulfilling to be appreciated for his physical qualities: it hard to find his own self worth off the stage.

And that’s pretty interesting, as we don’t get a lot of serious depictions in our media of male characters who have made careers out of their looks alone, much less time spent on the personal struggles such a character might have with being in that position, like having to be encouraged by a female significant other (often it’s the other way around) to remember that they have other qualities that they could build a life on. (In the titular Mike’s case, he makes custom furniture). The loose woman who’s shown to be incomplete emotionally because she encourages men to objectify her and must be rescued by a loving man is a practically ancient story. According to director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Reid Carolin, that sort of gender flip was what interested them in making the movie in the first place, and between them and Matthew McConaughey, Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Joe Manganiello and Matt Bomer, who play the movie’s male stripper characters, that process has been kind of revelatory.

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