"[S]o much about Amelia is so undeniably modern. If she were to walk into a room today in her jodhpurs and her aviation jackets, [with] her ideas about marriage or men and women, she would still be considered an iconoclast."
— Director Mira Nair on the subject of her upcoming biopic Amelia starring Hilary Swank, about the pioneering aviator's life. Nair, who directed Salaam, Bombay!, Monsoon Wedding, and the recent I Love You, New York was taken with Amelia's plainspoken directness when she studied archival footage of her. Earhart was the first aviatrix (I love that word!) to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She insisted on keeping her name when she married and called marriage a "partnership" with "dual control."
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The film isn't getting the best reviews on rottentomatoes but I will watch it since Mira Nair directed it.
1I'm hoping it's going to turn out to be a good movie. I'm excited to see it. I remember doing a report on Amelia Earhart when I was in grade school and I was so interested in learning everything about her.
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