This is an amazing labor of love.
Here's something to consider: I recently heard Quentin Tarantino say that he hated the fairly recent "biopic" genre craze because he felt that the biopic, as commonly understood and assembled, was a constraining format which only leads to cinematic disaster. His view was that if you want to regale us with the life of an amazing person, pick a key day or two in that person's life and tell the tale of that episode.
And I'm inclined to agree with him.
And... What She Said 1) manages to be a biopic, yet 2) cleverly, humorously, humanely uses an episodic treatment in order to sidestep the fate to which QT said biopics are inevitably consigned.
It... just... works.
And! It's enormously warm and darned FUNNY! If you love genuine, life-affirming wit, you'll be laughing from beginning to end.
Here's something to consider: I recently heard Quentin Tarantino say that he hated the fairly recent "biopic" genre craze because he felt that the biopic, as commonly understood and assembled, was a constraining format which only leads to cinematic disaster. His view was that if you want to regale us with the life of an amazing person, pick a key day or two in that person's life and tell the tale of that episode.
And I'm inclined to agree with him.
And... What She Said 1) manages to be a biopic, yet 2) cleverly, humorously, humanely uses an episodic treatment in order to sidestep the fate to which QT said biopics are inevitably consigned.
It... just... works.
And! It's enormously warm and darned FUNNY! If you love genuine, life-affirming wit, you'll be laughing from beginning to end.