Plastic Surgery and the Movies
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Plastic surgery has a huge supporting role in the movie, Burn after Reading.
While the madcap events in the movie unfold like an insane asylum turned loose on mood elevators, (make that strong mood elevators!) the desire for plastic surgery is the driving force that makes the zany characters do what they do.
The foolish character Chad (Brad Pitt) and the 40-something, rapidly aging Linda (Frances McDormand) work at Hardbodies, a gym and health spa in Washington, D.C.
The action starts because Linda is getting older – and is showing it! – so she goes to a plastic surgeon to learn what could be done about getting a younger look.
She comes away from the doctor’s office stunned because the surgeon tells her she needs, not one, but four procedures, the cost of which is completely out of sight for somebody making ten dollars an hour.
The doctor tells Linda she would look better with:
Meanwhile, over at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), long-time spook Osborne (John Malkovich) thinks he is getting even for being passed over for promotions and has written an insider’s account about what really goes on at the CIA.
And guess where the book falls out of his brief case?
Yes, at the gym! And who do you supposed finds it? That’s right, Linda. She then assumes she has found the equivalent of Fort Knox and starts thinking “Next stop: plastic surgery and a new me!”
The rest of the movie is more fun than the proverbial barrel of monkeys, as Brad and Linda try to cash in on the book and chase around Washington bumping into the other cast members – including George Clooney who plays a ladies’ man/CIA agent so convincingly he meets an untimely demise through a mistaken shooting.
If you ever saw the movie, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, you will love Burn After Reading!
Have you ever known anybody who would do anything for cosmetic plastic surgery?
admin @ December 22, 2008