fysbw on Instagram: "Now put that in your pipe and smoke it! In The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Dame Maggie Smith delivers a monologue that defines both character and calling. “I am a teacher, first, last, always,” she declares in a role that earned her a Best Actress Academy Award. Her words here are a testament to teaching as an identity, vocation, and sacrifice. For Miss Brodie, the classroom is not a profession but her purpose, so to lose it would be to lose herself. What unsettles those arou

Movies Verse | Joshua on Instagram: "Saoirse Ronan and Greta Gerwig first met each other at the Toronto Film Festival in 2015 when Ronan was promoting Brooklyn (2015) and Gerwig was promoting Maggie's Plan (2015). Ronan had already read Gerwig's script and instantly connected with the title character. When both of them discussed the script at length in Ronan's hotel room, and she read the essential part aloud, Gerwig knew she had found her "Lady Bird.""

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