Because I am super excited about the idea of writing a book and writing on my blog, I have watched the movie “Julie & Julia” on repeat. It’s the story of Julia Child as she wrote her famous cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking. It also shows the journey Julie Powell went through as she spent a year cooking all of the recipes in Julia Child’s cookbook. She blogged about it as she went through the year. I love this movie. I look at it now from the perspective of a writer, whereas over the summer I watched from the perspective of someone trying to figure out what to do with her life.
But that is absolutely not my point with this post. As much as I love this movie, there is one scene at the beginning that drives me batty every time I watch it because of how ridiculously unrealistic it is. At the start, Julie is packing her cookbooks into a moving box and then tossing that box into the back of her jeep just before she and her husband move into a new apartment. I took pictures of both the packing of the box and the tossing of it into the jeep. See below:
Please note the size of the box and how full of cookbooks it is. Here’s my beef with it…that box is WAY too heavy for any person to be casually “tossing” it into the back of anything. I’m particularly salty about that because my husband is a foodie and has a TON of cookbooks. I am not exaggerating when I say that there is a series of bookshelves in our hallway that house his cookbooks from the very bottom shelf near the floor to a shelf right up near the ceiling. With that said, we have moved twice in the past five years. That means we have packed up all of those cookbooks and carried the boxes from one place to another. Those boxes were HEAVY! And I had to make sure the boxes weren’t too big because if they were too big, there would be more books in them and the heavier they would be. I still haven’t recovered from the trauma of moving those boxes! So for Mrs. Julie Powell (or the actress who plays her, Amy Adams) to just toss that box into her jeep with no obvious strain on her arms, makes me call bs! I’m adding a sincere LOL to the end of this because obviously I am not all that serious about this, but I do think about it every time I see that scene!
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