Sunday, November 27, 2016

Jody

Jody mckeegan reminds my of the very exact definition of a feme fatale. She has complete comand over her beauty and uses it to her advantage.
Her acting is expressed as Almost other worldly as she becomes the character she is asked to portray. And I like to see it as a part of being a true feme fatale. After all you couldn't pick up many different men and use them if you couldn't make sure you were the kind of girl they wanted. It's odd, in the way that she has all thins knowledge on men without much effort. She knows she's beautiful,  she knows she has talent, but that knowledge is something different. It's what makes her dangerous. And the very fact that she is so centered on her personal goals, love be damned is actually kind of exhilarating. I haven't read many of these kinds of stories.
I have had the thought of comparing her to the Lolita types and this might be a stretch but, the thought did occur that Jody's story reminds me of the future Dolores Haze might of had. There is even a line in the book where Humbert says, she might of been an aspiring actress, one day a movie star. This thought of course Begs the question of what is the correlation between the two arch types of dolly and jody.

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  1. This is an interesting thought, comparing Jody to Lolita. I think you could definitely make the case that Lolita might have been a Jody if she hadn't been abused as a child. And yet, Lolita falls in love w/ Clare Quilty who pretty much finishes destroying her. Jody--maybe b/c of her comparatively tougher upbringing--doesn't seem to love anyone that much except herself. I agree that she's more femme fatale than Lolita.

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