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Madonna - The Film Director 4 September 2011
Madonna's second directorial work, "W.E.", starring British actors James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough has been shown at the Venice Film Festival.W.E. looks at the life of Wallis Simpson, the woman with whom King Edward VIII fell in love in the 1930s and his subsequent abdication.Andrea Riseborough stars as Simpson whilst, in a separate storyline, Abbie Cornish plays a modern-day woman who becomes obsessed with Simpson.Since its first screening, the film has been given mixed reviews. The Times called it "unintentionally hilarious" whilst The Guardian newspaper gave it one star out of five. The Hollywood Reporter was slightly more favourable. It said: "The directing is pleasing to the eyes and ears, but lacking anything for the soul."
Two of the film's stars have been telling Newsbeat what it was like to be directed by the Queen of Pop. Abbie Cornish, who plays Wally Winthrop, says: "She (Madonna) works harder than anyone I've ever met in my life and she expects everyone else to work hard too." "Everyone's pushed to their limits, everyone's challenged. She's a smart woman, you can't miss a beat with her. Oscar Isaac, who plays Evgeni, says: "She's a really funny woman and I respect her a lot. "I had to learn to play piano. Madonna's a taskmasker in the best way and I can now play 3 pieces of complex piano music. "I had never played before so every day she was making sure I was playing and practicing, saying I had to get this part better, that part better. Madonna jokingly defended her title as "Queen of Pop" Thursday, quipping she would never give up her throne for love like King Edward VIII -- "I think I can have both... or all three!" she told journalists. Madonna said she had wanted to capture the "world of luxury, beauty and decadence" of the 1930s, as well as the "rarefied air in the modern world", which is also one of wealth and sensuality, but "does not guarantee happiness". She also said there were "elements of myself" in the film, and said she could sympathise with Wallis as an outsider, an American living in London."I empathize with Wallis. Public figures or icons are often just reduced to a soundbite, just a handful of attributes. I think people tried to diminish her... I tried to make her human," she said.The controversial passion between the king and extravagant socialite Wallis is told through the eyes of a lonely modern-day New Yorker, desperately seeking the fairytale happy ending that she believes the famous couple had. (BBC's Will Gompertz in Venice)
But, Virgo and the 6th house are very much connected into being of service. Uranus, the ruler of the 6th house, is in Leo and forms part of a Wedge with Chiron and Saturn, which rules the 5th house of creativity and is trine her Sun in Leo. We can see how she became an 'authority' in her chosen line of service as compensation for an inner lack of security (square Moon). Her work became an expression of her individuality that wanted to be noticed. And the Sun and Uranus as part of a t-square with Mars and Chiron shows the need for something that is different and 'shocking' at times. At the same time it allowed her to increase her financial situation so as to be able to support her family (trine Moon). Uranus is also on the Venus/Sun midpoint, which is not a particularly helpful one for close relationships.There is another gentler side to Madonna and that can be seen by the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction in the 2nd house trine Venus in the 11th. It shows her fun side and optimism, her artistic interests and her global, humanitarian and deeply-held religious values. L.S.
Madonna's date of birth is 16 August 1958, 07.05 ESt +5.00 Bay City, Michigan 43N35' 083W53'.There is a lot of planetary activity around the Virgo ascendant. Most of it from the 12th house of seclusion but Mercury, its ruler as well as ruler of the Mid-heaven, is conjunct Pluto and the ascendant, which is on the Pluto/Moon midpoint. This is Madonna as she presents to the world. A strong personality, very demanding, highly critical - not afraid to speak her mind, with an obsessive need for perfection not only of others but also of herself.
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