In 2002, blogger Julie Powell decided to spend a year cooking all 524 recipes in Julia Child's cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She blogged about her experience daily. The blog led to a book. Then, in 2009, this story was turned into a movie called Julie & Julia.
Lawrence Dai is taking this process a step further. He's going to watch this movie every day for a year:
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Lawrence Dai is taking this process a step further. He's going to watch this movie every day for a year:
For the moment, I will not tackle the existential query, "Why, Lawrence? Why Julie & Julia? Why now?" Instead, I shall stick to explicating the rules of engagement.
Starting today, Tuesday, November the 30th, 2010, I will watch the comedy-drama Julie & Julia every day for a exactly one year--from the opening title sequence until the very last credits roll.
The film clocks in at a humbling 2 hours, 2 minutes and 33 seconds, which means if I am successful in my endeavor, I will have watched 745.5125 hours of Julie & Julia, or rather, a little over 31 days of nothing but this movie.
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A more interesting and easier metablog would be to each day read the corresponding entry from Julie Powell's original blog and comment on that.
On another note, the movie would've been awesome if it was just Julia without the Julie. I wish they could make an edit of that.
After reading a few of his posts I must say that he's not just writing stupid nonsense but manages to keep it quite interesting. At least if you're into this movie and into cooking. So kudos to him if he keeps that up. :)
I still don't see the need to watch the movie every day and neither do I believe he will keep doing that. I suspect pretty soon his DVD will tragically "break". ;)
He's going to quit on the first week or if he really does continue risk his sanity over this stunt :))
remember a comic is only as good as the material:D