Friday
January 14, 2011
Dakota Fanning is featured in W magazine’s February “movie issue” issue along with other A-listers like Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. Our Dak is still on top with her "A" game, and has a sweet photo shoot to prove it.
Perhaps the most remarkable moments in film this past 2010 film season weren’t the loud in-your-face 3-D crash and burn action sequences that seem to proliferate the movies; but rather the more underrated subtle performances like Dakota Fanning and her brilliant portrayal of Cherie Curie, the little girl lost in the 70’s biopic The Runaways. The Runaways came, went, and never even opened in my home town. Almost nobody saw Dakota in this movie, well they should.
"It was important for me to go to a normal high school. I have a locker, which was a big deal. My mom had to buy me a lock and teach me how to use it. It’s the little things: Where do you go at lunch? How do you open the locker? I wanted a yearbook! Now I have a lot of signatures in my yearbook—‘Have a good summer’ and all that."
—Dakota Fanning
Does anyone else think the W picture of Dakota owes its photographic composition and artistic lineage to that classic Jodie Foster pic from Taxi Driver? The hat, the curly hair, the juxtaposition between the caryatid columns of neon signs. Perhaps any homage, real or imagined is all in my head—but its always seemed to me that Dakota and Jodie share this weird ethereal parallel karma. Whatdoyou'all think, just wondering . . .
