Julie & Julia - By Shaun

Julie & Julia Blog Entries

During the course of this book exploring adventure Julie Powell went through and explored a cookbook. She did this by cooking every single recipe in that book and eating it and describing exactly what she did. When I think about what she did in these blog posts and then later in the movie based off the book that these blog posts are taken from; I think that it is an interesting way to choose to go about doing something. Despite the interesting points; I don’t think that any real life person would choose to go about something in this way. It would be a bit of a stretch for someone to decide to make and eat every meal in an entire cookbook for any reason. I thought that it was extremely interesting that Julie Powell chose to cook every single recipe in the cookbook, eat the food she made and talk about it a great deal. Her personality in the blogs is pretty much the same as in the movie. The only difference is that you can understand what she is thinking much easier in the movie than you can in the blog. The scene that stood out to me the most in the movie is the one when she said that the machine beside her bed was talking to her. I thought that this was really weird because it was an inanimate object speaking out loud and was more likely to just be her thoughts than the machine actually speaking.