Glenn Weldon
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5,684 appearances
58 recordings
10 series
first heard Sep 2022
last heard 2d ago
Glenn Weldon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'll be honest, when this topic came up,
I initially saw this movie because I thought of its most famous scene, which is where Little Edie celebrates the Fourth of July by putting on some marching band music and dancing around the house's foyer in her signature headscarf while she's waving an American flag.
the more I became convinced that this film says everything there is to say about America.
Because Grey Gardens is one of those films that changes every time you see it as different aspects of you kind of chime with the movie, resonate with the movie in different ways.
I mean, the first time I saw it, it really seemed to me like the filmmakers were exploiting these women, you know, pointing the camera at them and painting them as grotesques, you know, mocking them.
Now, when I see it and I'm much closer to little Edie's age in the film, I realize how much of that kind of knee jerk impression does these women a disservice because it robs them of their, I don't want to say agency.
I never want to say agency, but just say.
Complicitness.
Their complicitness, their volition.
Well, their choices.
Yes.
Thank you.
The thing that Little Edie is consumed by is self-awareness.
These are both very self-aware women.
They are not just willing participants.
They are both performers.
Big Edie was a singer.
Little Edie was an actress and a model.
And Little Edie, especially throughout the film, is acutely aware of how she's being perceived.
She flirts with the camera.
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