Megan Fox has got a very keen eye for someone who invariably shoots from the hip. Her targets vary but it seems that they are all selected with great care. It is not vitriol that she spits, in fact anger seems to have very little to do with her ‘moments of clarity’.
Who the Hell is Megan Fox?
You know Megan Fox. She’s that mechanic chick in that film with all the robots and sweaty people. Come on… she leans under that fidgety guy’s hood and he bites his arm… oh, THAT Megan Fox.
Megan Denise Fox was born on the 16th of May, 1986 and apparently likes eating cake. A native of Knoxville, Tennessee she has an older sister called Kristie. Like most people, she has a mother and even an ex boyfriend named Brian. There are reports that she once owned a pig but it seems its name is not public record. She enjoys having people draw things on her body and has a 22-inch waist.
From Straight to DVD to Box-Office Heaven
Megan Fox made her film debut opposite the once little but now big Asley Olsen in the 2001 DVD release, Holiday In The Sun. This was followed by a string of short lived television roles culminating in an uncredited role in Bad Boys II and major one in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen; alongside future fellow gossip cyclone Lindsay Lohan. Another two years of television grind would follow and then 2007.
Megan Fox Becomes a Screensaver
The year 2007 saw Britney shave her head, Ban Ki-Moon become Secretary General of the United Nations and the mega hit film Transformers explode onto the screen. Here was a pure adrenalin rush of a movie, a perfect mix of droll humor and pitch perfect action. It truly deserved to become the blockbusting behemoth that it did, encapsulating exactly what a movie of its genre should be – a ride.
By her own admission, Megan Fox does not hold her performance in the movie to be any kind of breakthrough dramatic turn. This was an action film, she provided the narrative with exactly what it called for: implausibly attractive supposed teenager runs a lot, emits radioactive olive glow whilst helping unpopular boy save world. As George Bush was once heard to mutter, Mission Accomplished.
But does this justify the public attention, the hotel suites, buckets of cash and search engine meltdowns? Does Megan Fox’s penchant for cake, tattoos and comic books really outweigh our desire to combat swine flu or unravel Iran’s wriggly nuclear intentions? Maybe not, but perhaps her search engine prowess is more of a reflection of ourselves. The insatiable lust for useless detail; that voyeuristic quick fix of celebrity on the way to the stock market report. If Megan Fox didn’t exist then we would have to create one – or maybe two.
Celebrity in a Time of the Golden Midriff
Celebrity is a strange creature, at once revered and despised. We marvel at these lavish lives and wonder if the candid off-screen glimpses we catch in interviews and articles are merely a continuation of the performance. Actors have become brands and the perpetuation of their own personal mythologies is paramount to survival.
Megan Fox is direct, she speaks frankly about sex and her own personal preferences, she swears (a lot), she challenges society’s double standards and calls out major studios as nothing more than meat factories; as they churn out teen sex idols and then chastise them for being sexy.
This may all be a rehearsed part of her ‘Hollywood’ persona - but if it is, then, she is a far better actress then people are giving her credit for; and her scriptwriter deserves an Oscar, well maybe not an Oscar. It seems though that she genuinely stands behind the frankness that laces her sentences or maybe it’s just so refreshing to hear someone address the Hollywood dream in such a non-Hollywood manner.
Megan Fox Telling It As It Is
Some would call it the height of ungratefulness to berate the man who elevated her so rapidly from obscurity. But Transformers’ Director, Michael Bay and his filmmaking style, recently found itself at the sharp end of a widely publicized ‘Megan Moment’. His taskmaster demeanor on set was mentioned in the same breath as a certain micro-mustached dead Nazi dictator. His films, described as perhaps leaning toward exploding fast shiny stuff than Hitchcockian character arcs. Whether justified or not, manufactured publicity or frank honesty it is rare to see the film world’s hierarchy getting such a good ol’ reality slap-down; anyone who has seen Michael Bay interviewed should be well aware of the trouble the man must have when buying hats.
When you initially hear Megan Fox speak about her distaste for Hollywood protocol or that if she was ever declined work because of her body art she’d work in a convenience store, or that she is a man trapped in a woman’s body then you have to pause… Is she for real? Are these words just too easy to say when you have the kind of looks that can peel paint? Time will tell how her persona and acting ability evolves and eventually sits with people. It would be nice though that she does succeed and perhaps becomes another to do what Frances Farmer sadly failed to achieve: a woman who plays the Hollywood game by her own rules and wins?
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