Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan
I know nothing about Madonna’s recent attempts (or not) to adopt. Nothing more than you can probably read on hundreds of sites whose writers are speculating on the latest developments. So, I won’t waste any time on that here.
I do, in the midst of all the ubiquitous Madonna news, keep coming back to this movie, and to all the songs that I bellowed out to as a pre-teen/teen, sung by a way hip one-named superstar with big bows and earrings who was slithering across a stage. Man, was she cool.
When Desperately Seeking Susan was released, Madonna was in her late twenties. Not too far off of where I am today (I said not TOO far off….). It seems like just a blink since the early Madonna craze. Really.
I’m curious to know what that young 20-something girl would have thought of her life as it is now. Could she have imagined the impact that she would have on our culture? Was she already planning out the shock factor that her book and concerts would have on legions of people? Would she have seen herself as a mother? What kind of mother? Did she ever imagine that she would be trying to adopt a child from Malawi? Had she ever heard of Malawi?
My life is pretty much what I thought it would be 20 years ago. Not a bad thing, just a fact. Will my life in 20 years be what I expect it to be now? What impact will I have on the world? What choices am I making now that will impact my life, and the lives of others, for better or worse? Had I ever heard of Malawi before these last few weeks?
No answers today, just questions.
Oh, and I remember Rosanna Arquette in the film (duh), but Aidan Quinn and Laurie Metcalf? No memory of them at all in it. I’m gonna have tons of movies to catch up on, again!
October 18th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
First, this movie really isn’t worth catching up on and I like Madonna. If I were you I would go for the insanely bad Who’s That Girl? I doubt she knew 20 years ago that she would be British. That’s speaking as someone whose life is nothing like what she thought is 20 years ago (or even 10 for that matter). But who knows, she may have planned a nationality switch early in life.
October 18th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
You crack me up. You mean, girls from Michigan don’t naturally carry a British accent? How odd. Maybe you should plan a nationality switch. I’ll work on which one. :D I don’t think I ever even saw Who’s That Girl.
October 19th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Madonna in VISIONQUEST! Now THAT’s a movie. HOT
October 20th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
Doug: Honestly can’t remember if I’ve ever seen that one. I’ll have to check that one out.
October 20th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
[…] Like I said, I’ve not kept up much on Madonna’s adoption of David Banda, the 13-month old boy from Malawi. Hsien, however, has kept up enough to know what the playroom that David came home to was filled with. Go here to check out her post about it. […]